by Clea | Aug 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
When hardest of the hard-boiled author Thomas Pluck moderated a panel I was on at last year’s Bouchercon, I didn’t expect to find much common ground. But, as is often true of crime writers, Pluck – whose motto is “unflinching fiction”...
by Clea | Jul 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
Six-week-old Trooper was injured and overheated when Mass. State Trooper John DeNapoli found him. Now fully recovered (and in his forever home), he was reunited with his rescuer for a happy ending. (Full story here.) You’re welcome!
by Clea | Jul 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
“WORLD ENOUGH illustrates the community-unifying power of music and the community-rending power of drugs/alcohol, and the fact that those two forces often meet in the same rooms at the same time ~ plus, it’s a thriller! Great story and eerily authentic, which is not...
by Clea | Jul 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
No, I’m not researching a book. Rather, I’m avoiding writing. I started going through some of the boxes of my mom’s stuff this weekend (she died six years ago, so … overdue) and found this. My mother’s mother, my grandmother, Anna...
by Clea | Jul 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
All it takes are a few strays… (this great article in the Boston Globe tags along with some local “cat ladies” doing TNR – trap, neuter, return – in the Boston area: click here.)
by Clea | Jul 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Do you ever doubt yourself when writing or doing something creative/dear to your heart? (AKA, are you human?) Well the brilliant Caroline Leavitt just posted this technique over on her page: A brilliant friend of mine told me to name that stupid, ugly voice inside of...
