THE ART OF DETECTION, a Kate Martinelli mystery (with Sherlock Holmes) will be published early next June. (I could have given names to an entire nursery full of infants with less effort than this one book.) And if you’re going to BoucherCon the end of next week, you can bid to be a character in…

I had an interesting reaction to the last newsletter I sent out, in which I was talking about touring and how, along with the hard-working booksellers and the comrades-in-adversity escorts, I loved being in touch with readers– “The intelligence of the people who read my books never fails to humble me, their grasp of all…

If your name is Ivan, and you live in Salt Lake, UT, could you maybe check your email, friend? We’ve been trying to give you an audio book. *** The PostIts are gone, replaced by a tasteful vertical bouquet of little yellow plastic flags along the side of the latest draft, each marking a note…

I just had a comment from Pen saying it sounded like I didn’t enjoy writing the new Martinelli book at all. What’s not to like? Working eleven hour days trying to make sure all the plot lines follow through, all the suspects are followed beginning to end, each clue is dealt with, every cited fact…

Last week my editor and I had The Talk. You know, the one where you sit and converse in lowered voices and not meeting the other’s eyes, and go over those things that will determine your future, your health, and your worth as a human being. It had nothing to do with sleeping with men,…

There are a lot of nightmares in this mothering business, this from “Paperback Writer”. And while you’re there, take note of her “thought for the month” at the side… Lynn, our thoughts are with you.

Okay, I’m registered for BoucherCon. Whoever decided that Labor Day weekend in da Windy City was a fun idea does not have my vote, but my buddy Dana (Stabenow) told me I had to and I always do what she tells me, even when it comes to writing a short story (WILD CRIMES). So I’m…

Guest blogger Elaine Viets over at The Lipstick Chronicles has a superb post on the subject of the male romance novel. I’m not even going to give a synopsis of her essay because you need to read it where it stands. Very perceptive lady, Ms. Viets.

We left our heroine with her new husband in a breeze-block cottage on the campus of the University of Papua New Guinea, in scenic (sic) Port Moresby, contemplating the nature of cockroaches. You remember: really big, really fast cockroaches. There was one in particular that tormented me deliberately, waiting until I was halfway across the…

A bit ago I tantalized you (well, tantalized one of you anyway) with the promise of a cockroach story. This was set off by a reading of Rochelle Krich’e2’80’99s blog on July 21, with later mentions, about the cockroaches that had taken up residence in her microwave, and although I do know all about the…