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Update: World Enough is out in paperback!
Update: World Enough IS available in paperback – but it looks like there's a delay in getting the books to U.S. warehouses, and Amazon is now shipping in May. The good news is that Book Depository – a UK firm that ships worldwide for free – has the book in stock....
Five Questions with Wendy Fallon
Wendy and I are both scheduled to be panelists at next month's Malice Domestic conference. We'll be chatting about paranormal mysteries together, so it made sense to me to reach out – spiritually, as well as literally – to a sister "woo woo" author! How does a book...
A lovely surprise
In today's mail. I was hoping to get Thisbe to pose with it, but she says if she's not in a book, she won't support it.
Five Questions with Linda L. Richards
Linda L. Richards is one of my inspirations. I forget if I first discovered her work through January magazine or through an online community, but in retrospect, it hardly matters. Back then, I was trying to branch out from straightforward cozies/amateur sleuth,...
Come make a mystery with us!
Ever want to kill someone? Know where you'd hide the weapon? Come down to the Burlington Public Library tonight and make a mystery with me, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Gary Braver and Toni L.P. Kelner (aka Leigh Perry). We'll be asking you – the audience – to give us your...
Five Questions with Beth Kanell
I first came to know Beth through her reviews. Well considered, well written reviews are rare, so when I read a review of one of my own mysteries at Kingdom Books, the blog Beth keeps for her northeastern Vermont bookstore, I was overjoyed. Now I have the site...
“A Spell of Murder” is a winner!
Pleased as punch to announce that A Spell of Murder, the first in my new Witch Cats of Cambridge series, has been named a Certificate of Excellence winner by the Cat Writers Association. That's an honor in itself, but it also means this mystery is a finalist for the...
Revisiting Henry in the Hub
With my Boston rock noir World Enough coming out in paperback next month, I thought I'd re-post this interview Henry Santoro – aka "Henry in the Hub" – did with me. Henry was on indie rock station WFNX back in the day, so he remembers too... (Listen or read a...
Five Questions with Mollie Hunt
Mollie Hunt and I are cat writers. No, we don't have whiskers or fur, but we are members of an international (yes!) organization, the Cat Writers Association, which includes science writers who cover the latest veterinary and genomic news and fiction writers, like...
Hard at work…
Sorry I haven't posted much lately. I've sent off AN INCANTATION OF CATS (Witch Cats of Cambridge #2) and am taking some time to revisit another manuscript. It's been a few months since I re-read this, so of course I'm finding all sorts of bloopers, repeats, and...