by Clea | May 11, 2024 | Bad Boy Beat, interview, News, Reviews, Uncategorized
“If you want a swift mystery with plenty of clues, you’ll enjoy this,” writes Kings River Life critic Claire A, Murray. “Bad Boy Beat brought me back into the heart of Boston—night club life, numbered alleys, and an incredible lack of parking...
by Clea | Sep 5, 2023 | Interview, interview, Uncategorized
From the Sunday Boston Globe. This is maybe a quarter of our conversation. She’s a genius! AUTHOR PROFILE Jill Lepore has seen the inside of time By Clea Simon Jill Lepore, professor at Harvard University and author of “The Deadline,” a new...
by Clea | Dec 20, 2021 | Hold Me Down, interview, podcast, Uncategorized
That’s the name of Shawn Reilly Simmons’ podcast, and now I know it’s true. Shawn — an author and one of the brains behind the annual Malice Domestic traditional mystery festival — is super easy to talk to, and that means we authors tend to spill the...
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 8, 2021 | Hold Me Down, interview
In real life, the wonderful New York Times best-selling author Caroline Leavitt and I talk about writing all the time. So she revived her blog to put down some of our Q&A. You can read an excerpt below or click over to her space here:...
by Clea | Nov 4, 2021 | Hold Me Down, interview
Did you miss my HOLD ME DOWN pre-launch event with Mystery and Thriller Maven Sara DiVello? Not to worry, our host for the evening – Houston’s MURDER BY THE BOOK – has put our talk up on Youtube and Facebook and I’m sharing as a #TBT! We’re not...
