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But I am doing some guestblogging, notably here on Dazed and Confused.

Fields are supposed to lie fallow after seven seasons of planting, right? So I'm taking it easy this week. Well, I'm doing the various odds and ends (a book review, an article on online learning, etc.) that pay the bills, but nothing with mysteries, nothing creative....

I'm sort of stunned and definitely exhausted, but I think it is now safe to say that I have completed a first draft of the second Dulcie Schwartz mystery, tentatively titled "Grey Matters." Oh yeah, and we're refinancing our mortgage, too.

"While cat lovers will be drawn to Probable Claws for its feline characters, it's the overall book itself that will have mystery readers looking forward to the next in the series." Hey, thanks! (Read the whole review here.) And thanks to Linda L. Richards for letting...

Otherwise, I'm very happy with this interview, which went up today on the International Thriller Writers site.

All through the 1990s, I worked at the Boston Globe. I made some great friends there and I learned a lot. Now, I'm not sorry I left, but I've also always understood why others stayed. It is the biggest newspaper in the region. The most respected and seemingly the most...

The Globe's Judy Foreman tackles that question today. Of course, those of us who love our pets don't really look at them as a source of infection...

It's funny, I never really played his albums much. But I always turned up the radio when an Eddie Bo song came on. "Check Your Bucket" "Hook and Sling" "Check Mr. Popeye"... Any appearance by Eddie Bo was always the highlight of our visits to New Orleans. And not just...

And I, in turn, take on the Anthony Minghella production in my review in the Boston Phoenix. I quite liked it, largely because Minghella was quite respectful of the books. That said, he did change some things. One difference that I couldn't fit into this review was a...