Today is the big day! I’m in Lexington for the Kentucky Women Writers Conference. I’ll start the day teaching a workshop called “Writing On The Dark Side.” It seems that’s what I do–and I hope to impart a little bit of what I know about it to the twelve brave women who made it into …Read More
It doesn’t seem like seven years have passed. The Pentagon’s memorial opens today. Lovely, but seems inadequate somehow.
Yesterday I hopped on the treadmill to do those daily miles and happened to turn on the last forty minutes of Miss Potter, the sweet little film about Beatrix Potter’s love life. Really, what can anyone know about Beatrix Potter’s love life? I expect that there are biographies out there. But from what I saw …Read More
When I talk to groups or give a reading, one of the stories I like to tell is of how I gave myself just one year to write Isabella Moon. I say it with a certain amount of pride–especially considering that the two novels I wrote prior to it took me eight and four years, …Read More
Meet prolific crime writer, Martin Edwards, from across the pond. He’s new to my Folks You Should Meet list. And he has a ton of books available over here! Maybe he’ll pop into the Handbasket for an interview when his next one comes out….Welcome, Martin!
As promised, mystery writer Roberta Isleib is in the Handbasket today as part of her online tour for her latest novel, ASKING FOR MURDER! Roberta is one of those people you meet and wonder, how in the world does she do it all? She’s a clinical psychologist, is the current president of Sisters in Crime, …Read More
I always feel like I’m cheating a little bit when I take pictures at the fair because the colors and subjects are so vivid. This was the third summer we’ve been in Southern Illinois and each August we’ve gone to the “down state” DuQuoin State Fair, which couldn’t be more charming. Even though I was …Read More
There’s an email making the rounds of various writers’ email boxes. It came to me a couple of weeks ago–now many people on the Sisters In Crime listserve say it’s definitely a scam. Here it is: Hello, My sister is one of your biggest fans and she has terminal breast cancer and her birthday is …Read More
It seems that Michael Bolton and Nicolette Sheridan are no longer an item. Actually I don’t give a fig about their relationship, and am no big fan of Michael Bolton. I just wanted to make a reminder note to self here because it’s (almost) indelible: NICOLETTE SHERIDAN AND NICOLETTE LARSON ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE! I watched …Read More
When P and I got married, we moved to his family’s dairy farm near tiny Lewisburg, WV. It was a major culture shock for me. I’d been living in alone St. Louis, not far from The Hill, a working class part of the city where I felt relatively safe out walking during the day. But …Read More