by Clea | Mar 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Imagine my surprise when, while watching Emmy Blotnick’s standup on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” I heard one of my own books mentioned – twice! Blotnick, who is also the head writer on “The President Show,” was riffing on her sad...
by Clea | Mar 7, 2018 | News
Due to the storm. Stay safe, everyone! I’ll post when it has been rescheduled. EDIT: We have a date! I’ll be speaking about writing and about my books at this great public library on Tuesday, May 22, at 6:30 p.m. Free!
by Clea | Mar 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
We crime fiction (mystery) writers like to describe ourselves as either “plotters” or “pantsers.” Plotters figure everything out ahead of time. Pantsers, well, don’t, preferring to fly by the seat of our pants. But it’s never quite...
by Clea | Feb 26, 2018 | News, Uncategorized
As some of you know, I’ve been hard at work on CROSS MY PATH, the third in the Blackie & Care black cat mystery series. That will be out this summer (in the U.S., later this spring in the UK). And now my publisher, Severn House, has had a wonderful idea: For...
by Clea | Feb 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’m back, surfacing after roughly two weeks of reading the page proofs of Fear on Four Paws, one of the most stultifying and yet terrifying tasks in an author’s life. It’s dull work, reading something you’ve read so many times before. It’s easy to dismiss the need to...
