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Remembering Eddie Bo
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...
HBO takes on “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency”
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...
They’re here!
My new bookmarks, that is. (Pictured front and back.) Email me with your snail mail address if you'd like some!(You can also pre-order your Shades of Grey and your Probable Claws now, too!)
California dreamin’
I'm sitting here in my Cambridge office, hoping the temperature really does hit 50 degrees today, but in my heart I'm in California. In print, too: The San Francisco Chronicle ran my review of "Revenge of the Spellmans" today. Fun book - and if any of you liked the...
Dreamwork
Sometimes, I think writers never stop working.I'm deep into the first draft of the second Dulcie Schwartz book, and I've started dreaming about it. Nothing useful, like "oh, she should be stalked by the killer" or "why not make the tortilla into a clue?" No, dreams...
Decisions, decisions…
So, I'm getting bookmarks made up to give away at my various events, conferences, etc. (Malice Domestic! Murder Underbones party on April 21!). I think these look pretty great, but I'm not sure about the "The feline ghost did try to warn her..." (on the back/Shades of...
Happy anniversary, PW blogger Barbara Vey!
Wow, can it have been two years? Publishers Weekly "Behind Her Book" blogger Barbara Vey is celebrating two years of blogging about all sorts of fun books -- romance, mysteries, you name it. She's having QUITE the party on her blog today, with tons of prizes, book...
A Reliable Wife
Read this book.
Separated at Birth?
Since I posted my Shades of Grey cover (left), my buddy Brett pointed out its similarity to this REM cover (right).Well, there is a similarity in tone, I agree. But it's nothing like what happened when my first book, Mad House, came out in paperback with this...
From one pet psychic author to another
Joyce Lavene interviewed me on her wonderful blog today. Check it out!