Last week, I declared August 31 New Year’s Eve. There were school supplies involved. Fresh notebooks. New pencils. That strange feeling I’ve never quite lost that September is when one year ends and another begins. It was a lovely idea. There was, however, one small problem with declaring September the start of the New Year. […]
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Tomorrow is September 1. Which means today is New Year’s Eve. Not the official one, obviously. Nobody is going to stand outside tonight in twenty-degree weather wearing a stupid hat and counting backward from ten. There probably won’t be champagne. Ryan Seacrest is unlikely to turn up. And if somebody starts singing Auld Lang Syne,
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A thriller is supposed to make you nervous. Cozy fiction is supposed to make you feel safe. Put them together and you get something resembling a relaxing panic attack. Except… what if cozy doesn’t mean nothing bad can happen? What if it simply means that when trouble comes, you won’t have to face it alone?
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Once upon a time, “cozy” meant somebody had been murdered in a picturesque English village, but at least there was tea. Now cozy has escaped the mystery shelves and wandered into fantasy, science fiction, and even my own *The Summer Garden*. So what exactly makes a story cozy—and what genre will it invade next?
Is Everything Getting Cozy? Read More »
Writers rarely work on just one book at a time. While readers see the finished novel, there’s often an entire queue of stories in progress behind it—drafts, edits, serials, and ideas waiting for their turn. Here’s a look at what’s currently occupying my writing desk this summer, from new thriller adventures to ongoing serial fiction and the next novel waiting in the wings.
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Grace Worthington is facing a situation that’s already spiralling out of control—and someone involved may be helping, sabotaging, or both. Details remain… classified.
Fall From Grace — Status Update (Heavily Redacted) Read More »
I’ve wanted to write fiction for as long as I can remember. I was a big reader when I was in grade school. All the Hardy Boys books had a big place on my bookshelf, and I was always ordering books from the Scholastic Book Club. Remember those order forms they always used to hand