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Fun with rabies…

Shh… don’t tell anyone, but I’m having fun with rabies. And I’m not the only one. When I told Jessica, the publisher of Poisoned Pen Press, that I was researching rabies, she got nearly as excited as I was. After all, it’s a fascinating disease. What other viral...

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Pru gets another starred review from Booklist! Thank you!

"Simon excels in creating unique and believable animal characters as well as diverse and memorable humans"Wow! I am overjoyed! This review won't be officially out until April 15, but I have to share it now:Author: CLEA SIMONTitle: CATS CAN’T SHOOTPublication:...

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“ENCHANTING!” PW loves GREY EXPECTATIONS

And I am over the moon:Grey Expectations:A Dulcie Schwartz Feline MysteryClea Simon. Severn, $27.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8134-2Simon’s enchanting fourth Dulcie Schwartz mystery (after 2011’s Grey Zone) finds Harvard grad student Dulcie still at work on her doctoral...

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“Definitely more than just another cat mystery.”

Thank you, Booklist!Grey Expectations, Simon, Clea (Author), Apr 2012. 208 p. Severn, hardcover, $27.95. (9780727881342).The fourth in Simon’s Mr. Grey and Dulcie series, following Grey Zone (2011), continues successfully to marry the apparently very different...

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“Had God intended Women onely as a finer sort of Cattle…

"Had God intended Women onely as a finer sort of Cattle,” wrote one early 18th Century woman, “he would have not made them reasonable." Such is the sentiment of the Gothic novelist my heroine Dulcie Schwartz is studying in her latest mystery, Grey Expectations (Severn...

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Not the brightest bulb

I just had an amusing exchange w/ an electrician. I had brought in two lamps to be rewired, and they were due to be fixed today. As I walk up to the store, I see a photo of a black cat with a heart-shaped background on the window. It says, "Have a PURRR-fect...

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Argh!

It's happened again. I've gotten to that point in revising where I realize that a clue, one I thought perfect, MAKES NO SENSE! The good thing is, I think I see a way to fix it. The even better thing? By the time anyone reads it - even my agent and my editor – the...

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