by Clea | Dec 15, 2007 | Uncategorized
Note to actual readers: Real blog topics begin right below this bit of BSP. Please read on.OK, for the BSP: Today is my Amazon pub date, a date chosen pretty much at random (Barnes and Noble.com has had my book for at least a week, as have various lovely independent...
by Clea | Dec 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise . . . but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us – for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even...
by Clea | Dec 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
Dateline: Boston, Monday afternoon!Cries and Whiskers makes the New England Cable News Animal Connection, featuring friend and colleague Vicki Constantine Croke. (She’s the author of a wonderful true-life animal adventure, The Lady and the Panda, and several...
by Clea | Dec 7, 2007 | Uncategorized
Hey, if you’re reading this, you probably have heard this basic idea already. Supposedly mystery readers love mysteries because our books impose some kind of order on the universe. Things make sense, clues lead to conclusions, and justice is served. (This is...
by Clea | Dec 6, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’m continuing to make the rounds of the blogosphere! Today, I’m at Working Stiffs and tomorrow I’ll be at First Offenders. Of course, tomorrow for real I’ll be at Harvard Book Store for my book release party, too! (7 p.m.! Wine, cheese,...
by Clea | Nov 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
Right?Well, that’s what I used to think and it is what a lot of aspiring novelists think. And so, since I teach writing at the UCLA Extension School (yup, I’m in New England – I do it online), I blogged today on the UCLA Writers’ Program blog about...
