What better way to spend a Saturday evening than dyeing Easter eggs and watching Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles in The Third Man? Carol Reed’s Brit noir film gets better with each viewing–whether one is pulled in by the stunning cinematography and sharp editing, Graham Greene’s atmospheric story that tiptoes between the gritty aftermath of …Read More
It is raining today. It has been raining here in Southern Illinois for over twenty-four hours–the flip side of the tender blessings of spring. Our pond overflowed its banks yesterday, sending torrents of brown water over the dam that is our driveway and up onto the boardwalk steps leading to the gazebo. When I awoke …Read More
Well, I think it’s now entirely obvious why I would make a terrible journalist! I had planned to blog each day of Left Coast Crime, but became distracted by MANY shiny objects. A few catch-up highlights: The debut author breakfast went swimmingly, and I even had five lovely new readers at my table. Afterwards, I …Read More
I took it as a good omen this morning that I turned the television on to see a shot from Hitchcock’s The Birds. I think it will be a fun day for mystery and crime writing fans in Denver! Yesterday’s panel with Peter May, Christine Jorgensen and Robert Greer went very well. The room was …Read More
Writers are supposed to know many interesting things. But this writer had no idea that Denver, Colorado (where I’m attending the Left Coast Crime Convention) is actually NOT in the middle of mountains. On the way from the airport to the downtown Adam’s Mark Hotel, the shuttle driver informed me that Denver is at the …Read More
THIS young man is not the audience for my newly completed novel, CALLING MR LONELY HEARTS! I’m pleased to say that I just today submitted the manuscript of CALLING MR LONELY HEARTS to Ballantine. The scheduled release is Spring 2009. It seems like a very long time to wait. When I finished writing ISABELLA MOON, …Read More
I’m so excited to introduce Therese Fowler to you all. Her debut novel, SOUVENIR, is available now (by coincidence from Ballantine), and is garnering lots of well-deserved praise. I became acquainted with Therese on Patry Francis Blog Day, and was immediately charmed by her enthusiasm and fresh point of view on publishing a novel for …Read More