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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...
Should this be in a family newspaper?
File under "heavy petting" (and "equal time" for this blog): I love this. If a dog can smile, Joan Lowell Smith's husky is smiling.photo credit: Jim Pathe/The Star-Ledger
Steve Dale’s PetCast
Columnist and WGN-AM (720) Chicago radio personality Steve Dale named "Cries and Whiskers" a "pick of the litter," and interviewed me for his Pet Central show. Here's the PetCast. (I'm up after "The Shelter Dog." Equal time?)
quickies…
I review "Night Train to Lisbon" for the Boston Globe. Didn't like it much.But I was happy to see TNR mentioned in this story about feral cats in today's Globe.
Posting for Patry
Hi folks,I'm a member of Backspace, , a fun and supportive writing site, of which Karen Dionne is the administrator. She sent this email around a few days ago, and I've signed up. So, you'll be hearing more from me on this on Jan. 29. But in case any of you out there...
Guest blog: Brett Milano
Brett Milano has done a lot of things in his life, many of which have to do with rock and roll and some with cats. So when I saw this stellar review of his new book, The Sound of Our Town: A History of Boston Rock, I knew I had to ask him to blog. Take it away, Brett!...
Library cats
It must be something in the air. I guest blogged over at Jungle Red today in praise of libraries. And then I heard that another blog was starting a "library cat" blog, the idea being to solicit library cat stories for an e-book celebrating National Library Week this...
Guest Blogger: Linda L. Richards
What’s in a name, anyway? This question came up for me again a few days ago, when Clea and I were making preparations for my visit here. At one point she said something like, “it’s a good thing the protagonist of your book is named Kitty, ‘cause she’ll feel right at...
A different kind of Kitty…
Tomorrow, we'll be turning this space over to Linda L. Richards. In addition to being the editor of January magazine, Linda's a crime fiction author. We'll be celebrating the release of her new Death Was the Other Woman, which takes us back to 1930s Los Angeles in the...