POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS

by Sandra Parshall Second in a series of occasional posts about writing Book 6. I know it will happen every time, I know the point at wh...

by Sheila Connolly This past weekend I read a book by an author I know and admire.   It wasn’t a recent book, but rather one that crawl...

by Sheila Connolly Recently I read, back to back, two books that incorporated multiple characters.  I don't mean a handful, but litera...

Elizabeth Zelvin I woke up this morning thinking about Brat Farrar: not just Josephine Tey’s 1949 mystery, but Brat himself, the horse-lovin...

June Shaw Mom couldn’t see or hear well, but at her great-niece’s reception heard someone announce that all unmarried women should go up for...

Sandra Parshall T.S. Eliot wrote, “The naming of cats is a difficult matter,” and as a lifelong cat-owner, I agree -- but choosing a name fo...

Elizabeth Zelvin One of my favorite real life characters is Alberto Arroyo, a 91-year-old Puerto Rican American known to New Yorkers as the ...