by Clea | Mar 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
We crime fiction (mystery) writers like to describe ourselves as either “plotters” or “pantsers.” Plotters figure everything out ahead of time. Pantsers, well, don’t, preferring to fly by the seat of our pants. But it’s never quite...
by Clea | Feb 26, 2018 | News, Uncategorized
As some of you know, I’ve been hard at work on CROSS MY PATH, the third in the Blackie & Care black cat mystery series. That will be out this summer (in the U.S., later this spring in the UK). And now my publisher, Severn House, has had a wonderful idea: For...
by Clea | Feb 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’m back, surfacing after roughly two weeks of reading the page proofs of Fear on Four Paws, one of the most stultifying and yet terrifying tasks in an author’s life. It’s dull work, reading something you’ve read so many times before. It’s easy to dismiss the need to...
by Clea | Feb 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Shh… in super-secret talks to offer a special Blackie & Care deal before the launch of CROSS MY PATH, the third mystery featuring the teen Care and her guardian, the black cat she only knows as Blackie. Watch this space for more news – and here is the...
by Clea | Feb 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
Working on something special for you…
by Clea | Feb 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Phew! Just booked two book trips for the next month – to the Public Library Association conference in Philadelphia and Left Coast Crime in Reno.* And before we all start going on about the glamorous life of a working author, I thought I’d share the rules I follow when...
