The Agatha Award nominees have been announced and I’m so thrilled to be on this list of amazing writers of cozy and traditional mysteries! This is my first Agatha Award nomination!! The award is given out by (and normally AT) Malice Domestic in Bethesda, Maryland. This is…
Big news: Along with Dana Kaye from Kaye Publicity, I’m hosting the first-ever Murder and Mayhem in Chicago next March! More details on that here. This event is based on a great event that has been going strong for 12 years in Wisconsin, now called Murder and…
The Black Hour won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel this weekend at Bouchercon in Raleigh, North Carolina! One exclamation point doesn’t do it!!! !!! Thank you thank you to everyone there and to Sharon Bowers, my agent, and Seventh Street Books/Prometheus/Peguin&Random House for everything they…
I *may* have mentioned this already, but The Black Hour was nominated for the Rosebud Award at the 2015 Left Coast Crime Conference, Crimelandia! The Rosebud is the best first mystery award at this year’s conference, and the great news is that all the nominees are indeed…
More good news! THE BLACK HOUR has been nominated for the Rosebud Award at Left Coast Crime 2015: Crimelandia! That’s the award at this year’s conference for the best first mystery. I’m so excited, and here’s the best news: All the other nominees are my friends, so…
At a conference I went to in March, my friend Catriona McPherson carried around her advanced reader copy of The Black Hour all day, cover out. It was the single best part of the conference, maybe aside from the photo I had taken with Louise Penny on…
FINALLY the interview I did with Publishers Weekly is out from behind the subscriber paywall. Take a look! — I’m at Printers Row this weekend, if you’re in the area and way into books, sunshine, and Chicago-ness. Truly, Printers Row is just about the perfect Chicago event….
I’ve been meaning to spend a little time on my adventures this month. March, they say. In fact, it’s almost April, and yet here we are, with weather that seems rather January in nature. But March: I went to my first Public Library Association conference in Indianapolis,…
Anyone going to be library-ing it up at the Public Library Association’s conference this week in Indianapolis? I hear the city is double-booked with high school basketball tournaments. That is bad news. But I’m excited to see some writer friends, some librarian friends, and to sit at…
Today’s my day on the Debutante Ball, where we’re talking about writing conferences. My post is basically a list of all the places I’m going to be this year. (I should point out that my husband and VERY LARGE BLACK DOG will be guarding the house while…
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