by Clea | Oct 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’m doing a giveaway over on Goodreads! Goodreads Book Giveaway An Incantation of Cats by Clea Simon Giveaway ends October 29, 2019. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter...
by Clea | Sep 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
No, it’s not Thanksgiving yet. But in publishing terms, it’s already the homicide, and Lois Winston’s latest sweet and funny crafting cozy, Handmade Ho-Ho Homicide will come out tomorrow. Lois’s Anastasia Pollack mysteries are always good fun,...
by Clea | Sep 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
I am overjoyed. me and Jon! The Massachusetts Book Awards recognize significant works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s/young adult literature published by Commonwealth residents or about Massachusetts subjects. Massachusetts Center for the Book is...
by Clea | Sep 16, 2019 | Five Questions, Uncategorized
Tara Laskowski burst onto the consciousness of many readers with her Agatha Award-winning short story, “The Case of the Vanishing Professor” (from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine). This fall (Oct. 1!), we’ll get more Tara, as Graydon House...
by Clea | Sep 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Boston Globe uses a firewall for readers. If it’s going to continue to pay reporters and editors – as well as freelancers like me! – it needs people to subscribe. That’s why the fall arts preview might ask you to log in (though you can read a few...
by Clea | Sep 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Why “genre?,” I asked my editor. Why not just ask me to pick five novels for the fall preview? I was all ready to launch into my usual “don’t ghettoize us into different categories, we’re all storytellers, etc.” when he explained...