When I first met Mary Higgins Clark—on the shelf of my public library—I was 12. Pretty sure I was too young and naive for most of what I found between those covers, but I LOVED those books. So to be nominated for the Simon & Schuster Mary…
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Jennifer Kincheloe and I both write mysteries featuring smart—if somewhat misguided—women protagonists. We interviewed each other about our shared interests, writing, writing some more, and all things writing. Who’s Jennifer Kincheloe? Well, pick up a copy of The Secret Life of Anna Blanc, and you’ll not soon…
True story. When I first met Catriona McPherson, I hadn’t read her work. But I liked her so much as a person that I decided, of course, that I would pick up the first in her Dandy Gilver mystery series. Until I did, I hoped hoped hoped…
If you don’t know who Jenny Milchman is, then you haven’t been to a bookstore lately. I don’t just mean that her three novels, including the brand-new As Night Falls, are well-stocked in our nation’s book nooks. I mean Jenny herself is there. Known for her round-the-country…
I met Jim Ziskin through Seventh Street Books. His excellent Ellie Stone mystery series—set in 1960 upstate New York and featuring a spitfire “girl reporter”— is published by them. I didn’t get to read the first book in the series, Styx & Stone, until this year and…
Susanna Calkins and I met through Mystery Writers of America Midwest Chapter, but then we figured out a reason we might look familiar to one another—we both worked at the same Day Job University! We’re finding all the mystery authors who work there and forcing them into…
Today I learned that The Black Hour has been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. This is huge to me. I’m so thrilled and overwhelmed and all the big emotions. Upon further reflection, I also realized that I was getting nominated for an award named after…
I feel like I’ve known Susan Froetschel for so long, I can’t remember where we first actually met. Love Is Murder in Chicago, I think? Last year? Was that only last year? We’re both members of Mystery Writers of America Midwest Chapter, but I know her work…
Remember that nice British chap we had on the blog a few weeks ago? Well, he has a brand new book out, and if you’re new to his work, this might be the perfect chance to jump in. THE BUTTON MAN, you see, is a prequel. Boom….
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,…
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