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Why we write…
Why did I leave the cozy world behind? Was there some particular spur that made me write "The Ninth Life"?I answer those questions and more as I guest blog over at Lois Winston's blog today for her Book Club Friday. I'll be answering questions all weekend!
“This remarkable duo, a cat and the girl he has claimed…”
"Simon, a writer who loves cats, creates an appealing, unusual narrator in Blackie," writes librarian/blogger Lesa Holstine of "The Ninth Life." You can read more here.
Going dark…
"Write what you know" is good advice. But I prefer "write what you want to understand." Which is how I got to my upcoming dark, new cat mystery, "The Ninth Life." As I explain today, in a guest post at Lesa's Book Critiques. {And she says I have a "terrific narrator"!)
“The series just keeps getting better and better.”
In case you'd forgotten, I have a new Pru Marlowe pet noir out next week as well, with "When Bunnies Go Bad.""This series just keeps getting better and better," says the Bristol Public Library! Thank you! Read the full review here.
The Queen loves “The Ninth Life”
"Plenty of twists and turns," says Queen of all Reads. "I loved it."
“You’re not alone…”
Don’t we all feel alone sometimes? Like we’re the only ones in the world, abandoned by everyone? And at such times, isn’t a nice cuddly cat the best companion?That’s the idea I started with when I began to write “The Ninth Life,” my new mystery and the first in my...
“I wanted a ‘Team Blackie and Care’ T-shirt…”
Another lovely blog review, this time from LuAnn Braley at Back Porchervations."Now, my adult 'logical' mind wants to say that 'a book from a cat's point of view' ... eh ... how good can it be? Pretty dang good resounds as the answer! ..." Read more here.
“A delight for anyone who relishes cat mysteries.” – Library Journal
Just ... over the moon:REVIEWAuthor: CLEA SIMON Title: THE NINTH LIFEPublication: LIBRARY JOURNALIssue: 1ST MARCH 2016Simon, Clea. The Ninth Life Severn House. (Blackie & Care Cat, Bk. 1). Mar. 2016. 229p. ISBN 9780727885715. $28.95; Care rescues Blackie after he is...
I’m on tour!
Book tour, that is! Some of my stops are IRL – in real life – like next week, when I'll be at the great Left Coast Crime conference, or the week after (March 4, to be exact), when I have my hometown book launch party at Harvard Book Store (come on by!). But for the...
The Ninth Life “keeps you guessing all the way through”
Book Babble calls "The Ninth Life" well-written" and says it "keeps you guessing all the way." Read more (and sign up for the book giveaway) here.