by Clea | Dec 9, 2021 | Hold Me Down, online event
Want to set your mystery in a rock club? Hiding clues in art? You might want to join this Tewksbury Public Library writing group! At the invitation of the lovely Library and fellow crime fiction author Dale T. Phillips, I did my best to explain not only how I used the...
by Clea | Dec 6, 2021 | Hold Me Down
Nobody in our high school was completely surprised when Joel Rifkin turned out to be a serial killer… (This essay originally ran on the SHOTS crime and thriller ezine, which you can access here (or go to...
by Clea | Dec 3, 2021 | Hold Me Down
She rubs her thumb over the F clef on her wrist. A reminder, faded now, of what she had. The cost … [Thanks to Janet Rudolph for posting this over at Mystery Fanfare! Just in case you missed it, I’m running it here too] Gal Raver, my protagonist, has a...
by Clea | Dec 1, 2021 | Hold Me Down, interview
To be fearless is to let the creative impulse take you where it will. … Abby Frucht and I went deep when we chatted about writing, process, and Hold Me Down back in October. The original interview ran on the JMWW blog, and I’m now reprinting it here:...
by Clea | Nov 23, 2021 | Hold Me Down
I know Thanksgiving is coming up, but I’d love to use this #ThankfulTuesday to send out a whole-HEARTed love song to the amazing #bookstagram community.😍All authors fear being alone – and it is the greatest feeling in the world when, instead,...
by Clea | Nov 22, 2021 | CrimeSpree, Hold Me Down
“Simon’s tour of the Boston music scene will make readers wish “Hold Me Down” included a link to iTunes.” – Oline Cogdill, South Florida Sun Sentinel Clea Simon Blame Oline. She was the first reviewer to suggest that HOLD ME DOWN should have a playlist,...
