Saturday night Pomegranate and I drove back from Lexington together. As amazing as the weekend was, the drive might have been the best part. The last half hour of our trip was all back roads running past farms and Southern Illinois lakes. We had the sunroof open and the windows down and the radio cranked …Read More
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