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You might not know this about me…
Celebrating the UK release of Cross My Path, Severn House has spilled some of my secrets on the house blog here. For example, there is that convicted murderer I worked with...
The questions people ask me…
Do you have cats? How do you research your mysteries? Do you have a day job? I got to meet a zillion* librarians and their colleagues last week at the Public Library Association's bi-annual conference last week in Philadelphia, and it was a blast. My publisher Severn...
CWA award time!
Just found out that my As Dark As My Fur has been awarded a Certificate of Excellence in the 2018 CWA communications contest. That means this mystery, the second in my Blackie & Care series, is eligible for a Muse Medallion. (I'm already the proud owner of a few...
Catch up with Blackie and Care
In advance of the release of Cross My Path, Severn House is offering a two-for-one omnibus e-book version of the first two Blackie and Care black cat mysteries at a special discounted price. Hurry, though, this special will not last!
Comedians are people – and daughters – too
Imagine my surprise when, while watching Emmy Blotnick's standup on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," I heard one of my own books mentioned – twice! Blotnick, who is also the head writer on "The President Show," was riffing on her sad life and she mentioned her...
Winthrop library event POSTPONED
Due to the storm. Stay safe, everyone! I'll post when it has been rescheduled. EDIT: We have a date! I'll be speaking about writing and about my books at this great public library on Tuesday, May 22, at 6:30 p.m. Free!
And so it begins…
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 that simple. I've long considered...
The black cat catch-up!
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 a...
Fear on Fore Pages
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...
Waiting for CROSS MY PATH…
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 corrected...