Reviews
"While cat lovers will be drawn to Probable Claws for its feline characters, it's the overall book itself that will have mystery readers looking forward to the next in the series." Hey, thanks! (Read the whole review here.) And thanks to Linda L. Richards for letting...
They cropped Musetta!
Otherwise, I'm very happy with this interview, which went up today on the International Thriller Writers site.
No severance pay?
All through the 1990s, I worked at the Boston Globe. I made some great friends there and I learned a lot. Now, I'm not sorry I left, but I've also always understood why others stayed. It is the biggest newspaper in the region. The most respected and seemingly the most...
Which are safer: cats or dogs?
The Globe's Judy Foreman tackles that question today. Of course, those of us who love our pets don't really look at them as a source of infection...
Powering through proofs
Hooboy, I'm reading Shades of Grey one more time – page proofs. This is my last chance to catch anything. Could the pressure be higher? On a more fun note, I just heard that 70 copies of Probable Claws will be shipped to me next week. I sign most of those and ship...
Remembering Eddie Bo
It's funny, I never really played his albums much. But I always turned up the radio when an Eddie Bo song came on. "Check Your Bucket" "Hook and Sling" "Check Mr. Popeye"... Any appearance by Eddie Bo was always the highlight of our visits to New Orleans. And not just...
HBO takes on “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency”
And I, in turn, take on the Anthony Minghella production in my review in the Boston Phoenix. I quite liked it, largely because Minghella was quite respectful of the books. That said, he did change some things. One difference that I couldn't fit into this review was a...
They’re here!
My new bookmarks, that is. (Pictured front and back.) Email me with your snail mail address if you'd like some!(You can also pre-order your Shades of Grey and your Probable Claws now, too!)
California dreamin’
I'm sitting here in my Cambridge office, hoping the temperature really does hit 50 degrees today, but in my heart I'm in California. In print, too: The San Francisco Chronicle ran my review of "Revenge of the Spellmans" today. Fun book - and if any of you liked the...
Dreamwork
Sometimes, I think writers never stop working.I'm deep into the first draft of the second Dulcie Schwartz book, and I've started dreaming about it. Nothing useful, like "oh, she should be stalked by the killer" or "why not make the tortilla into a clue?" No, dreams...