Terrie Farley Moran's...

...terrific new short story, "Bobby Wycoff is Dead," is up this week at BEAT TO A PULP. Go now, friends! You don't want to miss this one.

"...germs of larger worlds..."

Lydia Davis, who won the Man Booker Prize last week, had this to say on the Booker Prize website about the length of some of her short stories:

"Some of my thoughts or reactions are very brief, and their brevity is actually part of what I enjoy about them. They may sometimes appear to be just fleeting snapshots or records of transitory sensations but they are stories none the less because they hold within in them the germs of larger worlds and other narratives.”

More conversation on this at Women of Mystery today.

GIVEAWAY! James M. Jackson's BAD POLICY

I'm interviewing Jim Jackson at Women of Mystery today. Stop by and comment if you'd like to be entered in a drawing for a copy of his fine debut mystery, BAD POLICY. 

In winter, with my cup of tea...

... and the heat turned up, I’m happy to get to work at five, while the world is still dark. Now, I want to be outdoors when the birds break the silence of early morning, the air carries the scent of damp earth and the deer are feeding at the top of Pond Hill. Occasionally I have a visitor at the back window.

More at Women of Mystery today.

My advice...

...to Anna Karenina if we happened to meet (before it was too late): "Honey, he's not worth it." If you'd care to play the What Would You Say game, please join us at Women of Mystery today.

In my novel...

...Damned If You Don’t, I’ve got some dirty deals going down, but nothing—nothing—to match the antics in the New York State Legislature these days. Read more at Women of Mystery today.

You have to love Jersey...

...for the people, the diners, the view from the Meadowlands, and the certain
 je ne sais quoi of its criminal class, always a source of inspiration for those of us  who write crime fiction. Read more at Women of Mystery.