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…
Ben H. Winters and I met for the first time at the Public Library Association conference in Indianapolis last year, where we and Laura McHugh did a dinner-with-librarians event together. Having dinner with us was a prize. But I’d been aware of Ben’s work earlier, because we…
Leslie Lindsay is the author of award-winning Speaking of Apraxia (Woodbine House, 2012). Leslie blogs regularly at www.leslielindsay.com where she interviews bestselling and debut authors, shares excerpts of her work, and tips and meanderings on the writing life. She lives in Chicagoland with her husband, two daughters,…
I met Susan Spann through The Debutante Ball. Technically speaking, Susan had a lot to do with me being a Deb on that site. She was a Deb in 2013 for her debut, Claws of the Cat (Minotaur). And today we celebrate the release of her second…
I know Aaron Coats from my alma mater, Roosevelt University in Chicago. Specifically, I met Aaron at a recruiting event, and I must have said something he liked, because the next thing I know, he’s signed up and we’re peers. Aaron recently finished his degree, and I…
I really did break my arm last week, so I asked a few friends to help me freshen up the content while I tried to get my typing back up to speed. One of my newest writing friends, Lynne Raimondo, obliged. Lynne and I have the same…
I have another (last) guest post at my friend’s blog. It’s about MY DOG. And writing. But we all know what you’ll be there to see.
I have a guest post up over at my friend Meghan’s blog. Stop by to read it and check out her cool style.
A while back I read Ainé Greaney’s book Writer with a Day Job and told you how much I liked it. Ainé either has a Google Alert on her name or some kind of spidey-sense, because she stopped by to thank me and asked me to write…
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