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Mystery Monday at the Cuddlywumps Cat Chronicles (THANK YOU!)
Cross My Path and Fear on Four Paws both got wonderful raves today in this book blog. Of Cross My Path, she writes, "The story, set in a dark world, is completely engrossing, filled with characters who keep you wondering what they’re really up to," adding "We think...
FEAR ON FOUR PAWS is here!
Today is the pub day for Fear on Four Paws, which means Pru is back and Wallis with her! Yes, after a year-plus absence, the bad girl animal psychic and her cranky tabby are once again prowling the woods around Belleville, and are they in trouble. It all starts when...
CROSS MY PATH is here!
Happy pub day to the newest Blackie & Care, Cross My Path! This dark adventure – once again featuring the intrepid Care and her devoted feline sidekick Blackie – has been out in the UK for a few months, and so copies have been trickling in. But today is the day it...
“Gritty and intense” Thank you, Blood Red Pencil!
"[G]ritty and intense," says the Blood Red Pencil of the world of my new Cross My Path, "well-suited for the unsettling, edge-of-your-seat atmosphere." This well-penned review does a great job of describing the world that Blackie and Care inhabit, as well as capturing...
Thank you, Conscious Cat!
"Simon ... not only reflects a thorough understanding of feline behavior, but also a connection to the feline essence..." The Conscious Cat reviews Cross My Path, adding, "I absolutely love Clea’s brilliant, highly descriptive writing style." She concludes: "If you...
Discovering Tortitude…
Thanks to Thisbe and Ingrid King of the Conscious Cat, I've begun to learn about the joys of tortitude and ask myself the question: "How soon is too soon to invite another feline spirit into one’s life?" (Read more here.)
Looking for a fun historical?
I got to read and review Jordy Rosenberg's wild new Confessions of the Fox for the Boston Globe. (And, yes, the Waters and Faber books are set 150 years later. I'd noted this, but then cut the note for space – and then "Victorian" was added back in, for accuracy I'm...
Happy summer!
So much for the summer slowdown… Whew! That was exhausting! I’ve just gotten through the edits of next winter’s mystical cat cozy, A Spell of Murder, and have been looking forward to some lazy summer days. (More on that here.) Then the calls and emails started. Yes,...
The wayward clue
I missed it the first time. The second and third time. My agent missed it, so did my beta readers. So did my editor. But there I was, reading through the revised, edited manuscript of A Spell of Murder one final time before sending it back, and I saw it: Wait a...
“Epic in scope” Thank you!
The Bookblog of the Bristol Public Library reviews Cross My Path concluding: "While each book has its own mysteries from start to finish, it’s obvious in this entry that Simon has a larger story arc going on, one more epic in scope. It’s possible that there is a...