by Clea | Oct 30, 2026 | News, News, personal essay, readers, reading, Uncategorized, Writers on Writing, Writing
Do you want to cure cancer? Well maybe not for everyone but for me. I have been dealing with Stage IV – that is, cancer that has spread/metastasized – colorectal cancer for more than three years now. Chemo has been working well, but it eventually stops working … and...
by Clea | Dec 22, 2023 | News, News, readers, reading, To Conjure a Killer, witch cats
As a very lovely solstice gift, Harvard Book Store (my favorite local indie) just sent me the link to the event a truly wonderful and generous group of local authors did of my new “To Conjure a Killer” on Nov. 15. (I was recovering from surgery so...
by Clea | Dec 24, 2020 | A Cat on the Case, readers, Uncategorized
It’s here! The Icelandic “book flood,” my new favorite holiday. Since today’s forecast here in Massachusetts is for blowy, cold rain, I can’t imagine a better way to spend the day! Some of you (you know who you are) have advance copies of...
by Clea | May 8, 2020 | readers, reading
Is there a lighter side to this odd and horrible time? Just maybe – in the peek it has allowed us into the homes of celebrities. (This piece ran in the Boston Globe.) OPINION Bookshelves of the rich and famous Was that ‘Pride and Prejudice’ on Amy Klobuchar’s shelf?...
by Clea | Jan 1, 2020 | readers, reading, Uncategorized
New year, new books! I like to say that books don’t get stale. That means there’s no reason not to read an older book (an old favorite like Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety or one I didn’t get to, such as Ocean Vuong’s On Earth...
by Clea | Dec 30, 2019 | readers, reading, Uncategorized
This past year was the first in ages when I didn’t have a new book out. I haven’t stopped writing. Far from it!* But it did give me a bit of a breather in which to read – and now to talk about other’s books. Therefore, in the spirit of the season,...
