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Dirty carpeting and outdated computers
In her Annie Seymour mysteries, Karen E. Olson gets the world of contemporary newspapers right. (Though she is gentler than the brilliant "The Wire.") Guess that's why it was such a pleasure to read this piece about her in the Connecticut Post.Oh, and speaking of...
Why I am not in Birmingham
After a very long day in airports, I am back home and not in Birmingham. In brief, I was supposed to fly out of Boston at 2 and, after an hour's layover, make a connection in DC for Birmingham at 4:45. I have the beginnings of a cold, but it's not that bad and I'm...
Birmingham bound
This Friday, I'll get to escape dreary New England and all the post-Superbowl sadness and head to Alabama! Two smaller events have joined forces to make up a weekend. On Saturday, Murder in the Magic City in Birmingham (that's the "magic city," the website explains)...
Happy Mardi Gras!
Tune in, turn on, and drop out! If you've done your time and sewed, sewed, sewed, this is the day to put on your new suit! Don't bow down on that dirty round! And make a donation, why don't you!
Sisterhood is Powerful
Okay, she's not a cat. But the four-year-old Ms. G. may be the first official female groundhog of Groundhog's Day. Mass. resident? You can vote for Ms. G. here.
Theda #4
Well, folks, after much soul searching (and bugging of friends, relatives, and total strangers), I am happy to announce the working title of Theda Krakow mystery #4: PROBABLE CLAWS.This title, suggested independently by both Phil Mann and Rob Chalfen though what...
Blogging for Patry
Last summer, I was invited to participate in a very fun event, down on the edge of Cape Cod in Falmouth. Called "Death and Dessert," it brought a few of us authors together with a lovely crowd ... and lots of really great sweets! While I tried to avert my eyes from...
The fumes made me do it
"A prize-winning novelist has won a settlement of more than £100,000 after she claimed to have become so intoxicated by fumes from a nearby shoe factory that she was reduced to writing thrillers."Thanks to Sarah Weinman for posting the complete article over at her...
Cats & puns & rock & roll?
Hi, my name is Clea and I need help.I am addicted to puns and literary references. It probably started back when my father first handed me a wooden quarter-sized disc with the letters TUIT on it. "Have you ever said you'll do something when you can get a round to it?...
Hear ye, hear ye!
Cries and Whiskers is an audio book! (Here it is on audible.com, also on Amazon as a CD-ROM, wonder if they'll send me one of those?) My copies of the Blackstone Audio eight-CD set (hey, it's unabridged) just arrived. I'm a little afraid to listen, lest reader Tavia...