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 | May 10, 2024 | Bad Boy Beat, reading
Before we can write, we read – and, ideally, we never stop! In fact, the first and best advice I can give aspiring authors is read. Read everything! First, read it for fun, but then read like a writer. Figure out why the good parts work, and why the bad parts...
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 | Oct 28, 2021 | Boston Globe, Hold Me Down, reading, Reviews
Today’s Sunday Boston Globe book section hails HOLD ME DOWN as a “propulsive thriller,” saying: “In electric prose, Simon conjures the rock-and-roll world, its drink, drugs, and band-dynamics, and the twin seductresses of excess and success, as...
by Clea | Jul 24, 2020 | reading, Uncategorized
This week I’m welcoming fantasy mistress Elaine Isaak (aka E.C. Ambrose) to the #NoContact Book Tour! While we all stay inside and stay safe, books have become even more important – and books that include a touch of magic in their adventures are even more welcome. So...
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?...
