Duh. Every book from Catriona McPherson is great. I met Catriona at a Bouchercon Mystery Conference a couple of years ago. I think I can sum up what happens when most people meet Catriona when I say that I had an instant crush, and I hoped and…
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 just read a great book about how fiction works in and on the brain, a great tool for writing to engage readers. Writing to engage readers, she says. Someone out there is going to argue that he or she doesn’t write for anyone but him- or…
From where I’m sitting to write this, I can see—simultaneously—the crossroads of three busy streets, a El train stopping for passengers overhead, and an air conditioning unit canted awkwardly from the window of a sixth-story apartment window. I’m waiting for a friend to come meet me for…
Where have I been? Reading. Just getting back from a two-week vacation in which I did very little but read books, write (more on that another time), and watch Nora Ephron movies. Oh, and sit by a lake reading books and writing. And throwing a tennis ball…
Sometimes I think it’s weird that there are so many “summer reading” articles every year, because I read year ’round. Year ’ROUND. But I get it. I read a lot in the summer, and there’s something about the hot, sticky weather that lets you say, You know…
Goodreads.com insists that I’m still two books off my pace. There is nothing like a little pressure to make me feel like it’s OK to sit on the sofa all day with a book. Two books. Take note that Goodreads gives no credit for writing a book….
According to GoodReads, I’m four books off the pace for the year already. I imagine that little app is going to vex me, especially since the goal I set for myself this year—75 books read—is highly ambitious for someone who wants to finish writing a book and…
I don’t remember if I made reading a resolution, but frankly? I don’t have to. I read. My goal on Goodreads.com is to read 75 books this year. That’s ambitious, but far from impossible. Especially since I’ve already read six books already: 1. Wicked Autumn– G.M. MallietCozy…
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