Amy Shojai is my go-to writer friend for all things related to pets. Talk about an expert! Amy has written twenty-two (!) pet care books, blogs at NBC-Universal’s petside.com, writes a weekly catchow.com column and a weekly PETiquette newspaper column. Why is she so in demand? I’d say it’s because she’s an animal behavior consultant …Read More
Good morning. If you tuned in early, you may have seen some fun pet photos and pet behavior expert Amy Shojai–and no text! I’m off to Bengal’s soccer game, but will be back soon to figure out what the heck blogger did with Amy’s post!
While I was clicking around, thinking about how to introduce Bill Cameron in a way that wouldn’t bring too much of a blush to his ever-smiling face, I kept coming across the phrase New Century Noir. Indeed, it’s the perfect descriptive phrase for Bill’s work. Bill always delivers delicious mysteries, but his heroes are flawed …Read More
What I will always remember best about getting to know Maggie (many, many years ago!) is how she built a most astonishing pink and green coffee table between eleven o’clock one night and seven the next morning for a stagecraft class. When class began at nine, the paint was still wet. The prof was a …Read More
Meet mystery writer Maggie Bishop. She’s a fellow Sisters in Crime member who lives in the mountains of North Carolina–one of my favorite regions in the country. Maggie’s latest novel Perfect for Framing comes out November first. Welcome, Maggie! CocoCay by Maggie Bishop How could I possibly take time off with a book release in …Read More
Deborah LeBlanc is my kind of writer. Not only does she write thrilling tales of supernatural horror, but she’s founded two corporations, a literacy foundation, and she’s the current president of the Horror Writers Association. I met her when she was the panel master for my very first conference panel at Thrillerfest in 2007, and …Read More
It always does my heart good to walk into a writer’s conference or reading event and see that Shane Gericke is already there. We met at my first Thrillerfest in NYC, where he quickly helped me feel like I belonged. When you read his post, you’ll know why–he has a heart as big as his …Read More
It’s hard to imagine a livelier path to writing thrillers than the one Sharon Linnea has followed: she’s had five of her plays produced off-Broadway, written for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, been a book and magazine editor, produced a successful indie film, published biographies, and has even written for a morning television …Read More
Bestselling writer Jason Pinter is darned prolific. Since his Barry Award-nominated novel The Mark was released in early 2007, he’s published two more novels in his Henry Parker series: The Guilty and The Stolen. The Fury will be released this coming March. And given that, not so long ago, Pinter left his glamorous job as …Read More
Today I want to introduce you to the mysterious Clair Lamb–well, that’s the name I know her by anyway. She’s also known as Answer Girl, here. Or here, which is where I met her a couple of years ago. When I asked her how I should describe what she does to get along in the …Read More