Clea Simon's Blog – August 2008 Archive (5)

Fall ahead?

So after a week on the beach and more lobster than should be legal, I'm back here at my newly clean desk, thinking about what comes next. Before I left, a friend asked me if I knew which project I wanted to tackle: the grumpy pet psychic detective (based on my "pet noir" short story) or… Continue

Added by Clea Simon on August 29, 2008 at 2:41am — No Comments

Spring ahead ... to <i>Probable Claws</i>

Just got the word: Probable Claws, my fourth Theda Krakow mystery, will be published next April by Poisoned Pen Press! More info as I get it, and an excerpt will go up on my site soon. But in the meantime: someone is trying to poison shelter cats, and when Theda investigates she finds herself arrested for murder!

Until then, I've reviewed Colin Cotterill's Curse of the Pogo Stick for the… Continue

Added by Clea Simon on August 16, 2008 at 2:39am — No Comments

Thank you, Worldwide

Oh, my! I just heard from my editor at Worldwide Mysteries, which publishes mass market paperbacks of previously published mysteries - and he told me that their edition of Mew is for Murder sold 17,232 copies! I don't think I've sold that many of anything ever. Now they're offering a lovely mass market edition of Cattery Row, so here's hoping… Continue

Added by Clea Simon on August 7, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

Chatting with Tana French

Two weeks ago, I got to interview Tana French for the Boston Phoenix. The Edgar-winning author of In the Woods was in town promoting The Likeness, her second smart psychological mystery, and we had a good chat over coffee in the elegant… Continue

Added by Clea Simon on August 6, 2008 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

<i>Cattery Row</i> in paperback!

Mass market paperback, that is (i.e., smaller – and significantly cheaper). Worldwide Mystery has just published this new edition of my second mystery, Cattery Row, available only online (to check it out, click here) and with an absolutely wonderful new cover. Don't you think… Continue

Added by Clea Simon on August 5, 2008 at 2:41am — No Comments

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