I got to interview Jill Lepore!

From the Sunday Boston Globe. This is maybe a quarter of our conversation. She’s a genius! AUTHOR PROFILE Jill Lepore has seen the inside of time By Clea Simon Jill Lepore, professor at Harvard University and author of “The Deadline,” a new...

Announcing BAD BOY BEAT and THE BLUE BUTTERFLY

I’m so excited about this and it’s finally real! This week, I e-signed the contract – and my new publisher did too. And so it is official: Both my THE BLUE BUTTERFLY and THE BAD BOY BEAT will be published by Severn House, which is now the genre imprint of...

To Conjure a Killer!

Kitten season can be murder… When Becca spies a tortoiseshell kitten dodging traffic and chases the tiny tortie down an alley she doesn’t expect to find a dead body. But that’s only the beginning of her troubles in the upcoming TO CONJURE A KILLER,...

Hold Me Down a Mass. Book “Must Read”!

Absolutely thrilled to find out that my HOLD ME DOWN has been named a Massachusetts Center for the Book “Must Read”! This wonderful list means my psychological suspense novel is a finalist for the MassBook fiction award, which will be announced in October....

Hilary Mantel’s “Learning to Talk”

If you know me at all, you know I love Hilary Mantel. It was an honor to review this new (old) collection of autobiographical stories, in large part because it was so much fun to dissect what she did with language. Also, I love the illustration that Eva Vazquez did...