Discovering Tortitude…

Thanks to Thisbe and Ingrid King of the Conscious Cat, I’ve begun to learn about the joys of tortitude and ask myself the question: “How soon is too soon to invite another feline spirit into one’s life?” (Read more here.)

Looking for a fun historical?

I got to read and review Jordy Rosenberg’s wild new Confessions of the Fox for the Boston Globe. (And, yes, the Waters and Faber books are set 150 years later. I’d noted this, but then cut the note for space – and then “Victorian” was added...

Happy summer!

So much for the summer slowdown… Whew! That was exhausting! I’ve just gotten through the edits of next winter’s mystical cat cozy, A Spell of Murder, and have been looking forward to some lazy summer days.  (More on that here.) Then the calls and emails started. Yes,...

The wayward clue

I missed it the first time. The second and third time. My agent missed it, so did my beta readers. So did my editor. But there I was, reading through the revised, edited manuscript of A Spell of Murder one final time before sending it back, and I saw it: Wait a...