[NOTE: corrections below, after my information was corrected. Thank heavens for copyeditors and experts…] Mystery Writers of America, NorCal, had a fascinating program on Saturday with the owners of the house in which serial killer Dorothea Puente lived and did her awful work. We were joined by the homicide detective, the assistant DA, and the…
Read MoreThat’s right, I have TWO books out today, books that are about as far apart as a reader can get. In addition to Anatomy of Innocence (below) today’s the publication of the trade paperback of The Murder of Mary Russell! Enjoy! From Bookshop Santa Cruz, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.
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Today is pub day for a book I’ve been involved with for the past year or more: Anatomy of Innocence is the brainchild of Laura Caldwell and Leslie S.Klinger, both lawyers, both friends of mine. Laura is the director and founder of the Life After Innocence clinic at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, which…
Read MoreLeft Coast Crime is an annual conference that moves around the left coast, generally of the US. This year LCC was in Honolulu. Like the other moveable crime conferences, location is a prime consideration, since fans and readers use this as a holiday as well as a chance to meet their favorite writers. So, the…
Read MoreDespite being theoretically on holiday on the island of Hawaii, I’ve spent most of the past three days working on the proof pages of Lockdown, which the publishers would like back on Friday, thank you, despite being toastmaster at a crime conference or working on various projects for my many overlords. I finished today, although my…
Read MoreI’ve been in Honolulu this past week with crime writers, and it’s been interesting how often politics has been the unspoken presence on a panel. Some of us are outright in our opinions, while others feel that they need to keep their opinions to themselves. Whichever way you feel, there’s no doubt that books carry…
Read MoreOkay, today’s Takeback Tuesday isn’t about donating to a Good Cause. This one is fun and communal. Tomorrow is the Ides of March, a day Julius Caesar would have cause to remember. To celebrate a day that changed Roman history, tomorrow has been declared #TheIdesofTrump. I’d like all of us to dig out a postcard–or…
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Got your trumpets polished? Champagne on ice? Confetti on hand? Good—because it’s time to announce that…. coming to a screen near you… will be (all fingers crossed)… The MARY RUSSELL SERIES featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes ! Well, no, it’s not real yet. Don’t get our your popcorn quite this…
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Leading up to the publication of Lockdown, in June, I’ve been thinking about the nature of my other writing, that not set in the rather whimsical world of Russell & Holmes. Such as Touchstone, which began the Stuyvesant & Grey series. This week’s proposed women’s strike wasn’t quite as much of a Thing as England’s…
Read MoreThere’s an entire series of videos on YouTube (thanks, BoingBoing) about the Bush Mechanics of the Australian outback, Aboriginal gents who work miracles on heaps of junk and rust and turn them into… well, I’m not sure I’d agree that they’re cars, but they are mobile. More or less. America is now a nation of political and…
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