Reviews

The great Donna Leon is back in fine form, and I had the pleasure of reviewing her for the Boston Globe.

From today's New York Times Sunday Magazine:Joyce Carol Oates: "If you're going to spend the next year of your life writing, you would probably rather write 'Moby Dick' than a little household mystery with cat detectives."Oh, REALLY?? And have you ever tried writing a...

Oh, and here I am interviewed on the Cat Fancy website.

And here I am guestblogging on The Writers' Plot on the topic of talking cats.

Not sure what happened,but here they are:Acknowledgments Writing is solitary work and the support of friends and family make it easier. For all the cups of coffee and tea, the queries and cheers, I’d like to thank the following: Caroline Leavitt, Vicki Constantine...

The books are here! Calloo callay, oh frabjous day, she Swiffered in her joy (hey, there's a lot of cat hair around here). Four big boxes of books have just arrived -- three go back to Poisoned Pen on Monday with my signature (which is so bad anyway, it doesn't matter...

But I am doing some guestblogging, notably here on Dazed and Confused.

Fields are supposed to lie fallow after seven seasons of planting, right? So I'm taking it easy this week. Well, I'm doing the various odds and ends (a book review, an article on online learning, etc.) that pay the bills, but nothing with mysteries, nothing creative....

I'm sort of stunned and definitely exhausted, but I think it is now safe to say that I have completed a first draft of the second Dulcie Schwartz mystery, tentatively titled "Grey Matters." Oh yeah, and we're refinancing our mortgage, too.