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Scent bottles and other gun terms…
I love writing, but sometimes research takes the cake. I'm getting ready to start the second Pru Marlowe pet noir and have been immersed in the world of antique guns. In some ways this is silly: the collectible that appears in the first scene of this next book will...
Happy Labor Day
morning coffee at the Moors Motel
Revisions and the restorative power of rock & roll
I'm re-reading Grey Zone this week - my editor loved it (yay!) but considering all the crap that went down this spring, she gave me a week to re-read/revise one more time. And I'm slogging along when, yesterday, I hit one of those passages where I wonder, "What the...
“What We Have,” a review
We plan, God laughs... my review of Amy Boesky's moving memoir, "What We Have," in today's Boston Globe.
Looking ahead….
OK, I admit I am psyched that Dogs Don't Lie, my first Pru Marlowe pet noir mystery, is already listed as available for preorder on Amazon (and I promise, indie bookstores, as soon as you list it, too, I'll post links!) That book won't be published until April, 2011,...
“And behind the chalet, the holiday’s complete…”
Cheap Trick and Squeeze, row N. So much fun. Reviewed it for the Phoenix here.photo by Scott M. Lacey for the Boston Phoenix.
My total fan-girl moment!
Monday morning, I was sick as a dog but I had one un-missable appoint: a phone interview with Naomi Novik. Novik, you may already know, is the author of the Temeraire novels: Napoleonic-era fantasy, only set in an alternative world with intelligent, sensitive dragons....
Tana French’s “Faithful Place”
My review in the Boston Phoenix:"Frank Mackey's life changed when he was 19. The year was 1985, and he and his girlfriend Rosie Daly were about to run away together. Growing up in Faithful Place, one of working-class Dublin's more depressed byways, they knew they had...
One down, one to go
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I've been busy! DOGS DON'T LIE, the first Pru Marlowe mystery, is finally through revisions and on track to be published by Poisoned Pen Press next April. This cover isn't final, but it looks pretty good, doesn't it? (If you...
It’s not just sour grapes.
Am I right folks?