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Happy Thanksgiving!
Okay, this may finally be just too odd. But click on it anyway – and happy holiday to all of you!
A last gasp…
Well, I no longer have a column. But the new, redesigned Globe did allow me to sneak in an interview with jazz DJ Jeff Turton today.
What we’re doing wrong…
I got the email on Friday. "Help! I've done my words for the day – but now I'm beginning to see everything I'm doing wrong with this book." And it hit me, that's exactly how I feel, too! Now that I'm deep deep into the first draft of my pet-psychic mystery, I'm seeing...
Pie eyed
I love to cook. Love it, but I'm not a baker. I have a theory that we're different types of people. Bakers have to be scientists. The chemistry of cakes rising, of baking powder and glutens, depends on exact measures. On precision. I'm not like that. I'm an...
Buy a book. Give a world!
What is more encompassing than a new book?
Man, I loved The Eight. I really wish I'd liked the sequel, The Fire, better.
PROBABLE CLAWS contest!
Probable Claws is coming out this spring! I've got a great cover and the book is now available for pre-ordering on Amazon, BN.com, and through the Poisoned Pen Press website. I've also got some advance copies and would love to offer them to readers. So here's the...
“Bar’king up the wrong tree?”
Sheesh! That said, my buddy, animal expert Vicki Croke, and her wolfhound Tally weigh in on President-elect Obama's possibly puppy choices.
What’s a pet psychic supposed to do?
Ever wonder if our animals know more about us than we'd like them to? Ever wonder if they'll talk? That's the idea behind "Dumb Beasts," my first pet psychic short mystery. It's just one of the short stories in the brand new Deadfall: Crime Stories by New England...
John Leonard
Alas, the great, smart, funny, liberal critic John Leonard has died today. Gawker has the obit.I know Michael Crichton also passed this week, but I didn't post anything. Partly because with all the election euphoria, I didn't want to. Partly because I have mixed...