by Clea | Apr 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
This ran in the Sunday Boston Globe on April 5. For the full obit, please see here. APPRECIATION Remembering Kate Mattes, a maven of mysteries At Kate’s Mystery Books in Cambridge, Mattes nurtured the likes of Robert B. Parker, Linda Barnes, and Dennis Lehane, and...
by Clea | Apr 6, 2020 | Uncategorized, Writers on Writing
Today we’re welcoming Joanna Schaffhausen to the #NoContact Book Tour! I was lucky enough to attend Joanna’s local launch event for All the Best Lies (see the evidence below!) before the world went sideways. She read and cracked jokes, while her wonderful...
by Clea | Mar 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
We have lost Kate Mattes, proprietor of the legendary Kate’s Mystery Books in Cambridge, co-founder (with Sara Paretsky) of Sisters in Crime, and all-around champions of writers, particularly women writers, and readers. Word is that she had a sudden cardiac...
by Clea | Mar 23, 2020 | Five Questions, Uncategorized, Writers on Writing
Michelle Cameron and I met when I interviewed her years ago. She was helping me with one of my projects, but that chat introduced me to her own wonderful historical novels. Now I’m thrilled to introduce her – and her upcoming BEYOND THE GHETTO GATES – to you....
by Clea | Mar 16, 2020 | Five Questions, Uncategorized, Writers on Writing
Sarah Smith is a time traveler! Although we New Englanders know Sarah as an indefatigable supporter of the local crime fiction scene, to readers worldwide she is the Agatha Award-winning (and New York Times notable books) author of Chasing Shakespeares (yes, plural!),...
by Clea | Mar 6, 2020 | criticism, Hilary Mantel, Uncategorized
You know how Alice gets lost down the rabbit hole? Well, friends, last week, I went down my own particular rabbit hole. I had the honor and the privilege of reviewing Hilary Mantel’s stunning new novel, The Mirror and the Light (more on that later). But to do...
