Cover Reveal: Hooked on Urban Legends—and Murder!
What a joy to host the cover reveal for Hooked on Urban Legends—and Murder! The latest anthology from editors Donna
George Mason University
Fox City Lit • July 25
Thanks to the organizers of the Fox City Lit reading series—Michael Don, Billy Howell, Erika Ostergaard, and Liz Paul—for inviting me
Former Student Wins Robert L. Fish Award
I’ve been following the Edgar Awards tonight, and I was so thrilled to see that Anna Stolley Persky, an MFA
Not-Just-Noir at the Bar • Thursday, April 24
On the eve of this year’s Malice Domestic, I’ll be joining seven other local mystery writers for a Not-Just-Noir at
Fall for the Book Events
This year is the 25th anniversary Fall for the Book Festival, held each year at George Mason University and at
Teaching Forum in Clues
My essay “It’s No Mystery: What Genre Fiction Can Teach All Writers” has been included in a teaching forum section
Book Fight!
Thanks to Mike Ingram and Tom McAllister for hosting me on this week’s episode of Book Fight! You can find
The Writer’s Center Magazine—Times Two!
The Winter/Spring issue of The Writer’s Center Magazine is out—and what fun to have been interviewed for two of the
Reading Journal: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Much of my reading is done as a result of a course I’m teaching or a talk I’m giving—but the
Reading Journal: A Murder Is Announced
This week, my “Women of Mystery” class at Mason is meeting Miss Marple for the first time—in a way, just
Reading Journal: Passion Play
As I’ve mentioned something like a thousand times, I’m writing a boarding school mystery—or eternally trying to. (The novel as
Reading Journal: Done? And Next?
I’ll admit that I generally prefer reading a physical copy of a book or magazine or newspaper rather than reading