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Phew! Just booked two book trips for the next month – to the Public Library Association conference in Philadelphia and Left Coast Crime in Reno.* And before we all start going on about the glamorous life of a working author, I thought I’d share the rules I follow when...

Pleased as punch to announce I'll be on a panel at Left Coast Crime: "My Kind of Town (Rural & Suburban Crime)" Sunday at 10:15, with David Hagerty, Shannon Baker, James Haymon, Carrie Smith, and Heather Young. Seeing as how I'm coming off my most urban book –...

Things I've meant to blog about but haven't: For starters, the great books I got from authors I met at the Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend weekend: "One Good Mama Bone," by Bren McClain. "Wickwythe Hall," by Judithe Little, and "Since You've Been Gone," by Christa Allan...

Presenting FEAR ON FOUR PAWS, the seventh Pru Marlowe pet noir, to be published by Poisoned Pen Press in Aug., 2018 There’s trouble brewing in the woods of Beauville, and the only witness isn’t talking. When Pru Marlowe is called to a forest clearing to help with an...

Just for fun... the wonderful online January Magazine has been asking authors what we snack on when deadline pressure hits. I wish I could have said "carrot sticks and mint tea," but no such luck....

Sometimes, I think revising is like grabbing a snake by the head and working your way down to the tail all the while hoping to hold the snake in place. Only, while it is lashing furiously, you're also trying to make changes to the tail because of what you find at the...

Imagine 40-plus authors and 100-plus readers/bookgroup members in one room. Now visualize them in hot pink, leopard print, and tiaras – all talking about books, reading, their favorite characters, their latest discoveries, and how those all those stories got writ, and...

"Before Clea Simon became known as a world-class mystery writer, she was a music journalist in Boston. During the ‘80s she was writing regularly for Boston Rock, the Herald and a few national publications, and has the battle scars—and a closet full of vintage vinyl...