Boston Lit Crawl!

This year, the Boston Book Fest’s Lit Crawl is “taking it to the streets,” in that all events will be OUTSIDE! The June 10 eventincludes three evening sessions (at 6, 7, and 8 pm), and I am thrilled that I’ll be part of two events, both taking...

Celebrating Cathy’s CORPSE

Well, not exactly – but the wonderful Welsh-Canadian author Cathy Ace has a new book out, her tenth Cait Morgan Mystery, The Corpse with the Iron Will. Cathy’s not only a celebrated creator of atmospheric crime fiction, the IPPY and Bony Blithe Award-winning ...

Linda L. Richards isn’t faking

Linda L. Richards knows what she’s talking about. I first found her through her neo-noir Kitty Pangborn books, Death Was the Other Woman and Death Was in the Picture, with their badass women, and I’ve just downloaded her highly anticipated (and already...

E. Jean Carroll rocks

Did you read E. Jean Carroll growing up? I know I did – her column (then in Vogue) helped me navigate womanhood from college onward. It wasn’t until recently that I put together why: She, too, was dealing with the PTSD of rape and all the sexist bullshit...