by Clea | Oct 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
This week, it begins. On Thursday, I’m doing a really fun musical event (with Kristin Hersh! Nick Flynn! Kelle Groom!) at Emerson College and next week my new mystery World Enough launches, with events at Harvard Bookstore and more. Oh yeah, and on Wednesday,...
by Clea | Oct 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
“She’s quietly brought us four different semi-mystical cat and amateur sleuth mystery series over the past decade — and some edgy nonfiction before that. Now Boston author Clea Simon lets her inner rock ‘n roller out of the back room and rips...
by Clea | Oct 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
How reliable is memory?According to neuroscientists, not very. While we may view any particular memory as a continuous film of a past scene, those who study how the brain processes describe it as something more like a collage. As a 2012 Psychology Today article...
by Clea | Oct 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
What happens when something like 1,700 crime fiction fans (authors, publishers, librarians, and fans – all of us readers) gather in one place? Craziness – and a lot of love. I’m now catching up after spending Thursday through Sunday at that party, also...
by Clea | Oct 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
So one of the great things about Bouchercon is that it pairs with a charity, usually literacy related, to support reading (of course). But this being Bouchercon, it’s done in a fun way. This year’s beneficiary was Frontier College, is a longstanding...
by Clea | Oct 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
When the Moon travel guides asked me to blog about my local independent bookstores, I jumped at the chance. New England has such a rich literary history, it makes sense that we have a rich bookstore history too – and this piece has links to great stores, reading...
