From my publisher, Boom-Books: We’re looking forward to a brand-new year (play it, Pete Townshend!) . . . hoping 2021 will be full of reignited friendships, collaborations, festivities, and hugs. While the late winter Left Coast Crime conference won’t resume in person until 2022, mystery writers and fans are still …
First: this coming Sunday is my first online literary talk, reading, chat, and end-of-2020 celebration, hosted on Zoom by the Mount Holyoke Club of Northern California. At 5 PM on Dec. 6 we’ll kick off a new series called Uncommon Alums, Uncommon Career Paths. Want to join the fun? Email …
This past Friday I ran a one-day promotional giveaway of my end-of-summer novel Zapped: an Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery. I’ve described my reasons and strategy in my previous two posts. Here are the basics: Publisher: Boom-Books. Publicity platform: The Fussy Librarian. Sales platforms: Kindle/Amazon (direct via the publisher), and …
Goal: run a simultaneous book giveaway on all 5 major e-distribution sites — Kindle/Amazon, Apple/iBooks, Nook/B&N, Google Play, and Kobo. As described in my previous post, I’ve wanted to do this for ages — WITHOUT enrolling the book in KDP Select, as Amazon requires for Kindle giveaways, OR switching its …
Here comes Labor Day, but what happened to summer? I can’t be the only reader missing those long lazy afternoons on a beach or deck with a good book. So I decided to run a one-day giveaway for my novel Zapped: an Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery, set in a …
I’m writing this on March 8, also known as International Women’s Day. What does that mean? When I was little, Woman’s Day was a magazine full of recipes and household tips, similar to the women’s section of the newspaper. Nobody told us there had been a National Women’s Day in …
It was the Golden Age mysteries of Ngaio Marsh that first piqued my curiosity about New Zealand. How could someone who wrote like Agatha Christie come from a country so foreign from hers or mine? — ornamented by different flowers and birds, forested by different trees, overhung with different stars? …
This has been a year for stories! Left Coast Crime, a favorite conference of Sisters In Crime’s Northern California chapter, took us north across the border this year to Vancouver. I met some amazing writers and discovered some amazing novels, and I brought home a suitcase full of story collections. …
It’s here! Sisters in Crime’s NorCal branch has published their (our) first-ever anthology — Fault Lines: Stories by Northern California Crime Writers — and I’m delighted that my story “Birdbrain” is in it. Brilliantly edited by Margaret Lucke, this short-fiction collection by 19 outstanding writers from all over the mystery-crime-thriller …
On this bright cold morning after a night of firecrackers (and a dusting of snow!), warm wishes to you for a happy Year of the Pig. So far I’m liking 2019. February is the month when I first moved to San Francisco, and it’s still one of my favorites: the …
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