Author, Compulsively Readable Thrillers
Those of you who’ve read me for the past few years know I used to think Skype was a potentially terrific tool to do virtual books signings. Didn’t turn out to be.. there just isn’t enough interaction and the setup is not intuitive enough for technological Luddites (like me, actually). No longer! There’s a new … Read more
I just published my first short story in Italian! It was translated by a student working on her doctorate in English. You can find it on Amazon Italy here. If anyone speaks Italian, and you feel like adding tags, that would be fabulous. Let me know how it reads!
Crimespree Magazine will be running the following review in their next issue. I am a happy camper. When I first picked up this novel, I must admit I was a bit hesitant. The story revolves around an American college student named Anna, who falls in love with an Iranian student during the rise of the … Read more
As many of you already know from the photos I posted, I visited Cuba February 11-18, but it’s taken me a while to write about it. I think I needed to process exactly how I felt. I knew it was an important trip, and not just because I’m setting a novel there (which I am). … Read more
This blog is also posted on http://mediamania.blog.com/ a new blog that will hopefully engage you in lots of different ways. I encourage you to visit. Afghanistan is on edge… Iran is heating up… and Rush Limbaugh keeps making crazy statements. I say it’s time to go where there are real issues to contend with: the … Read more
My new novel, A BITTER VEIL, will be out April 15, and PW has just weighed in. Here’s what they said: “The Iranian revolution provides the backdrop for this meticulously researched, fast-paced stand-alone… Anna Schroder, an English major at the University of Chicago, meets Nouri Samedi, an engineering student at the University of Illinois’s Chicago … Read more
We interrupt the photo journal of Cuba to bring you the great news that DOUBLEBACK, my Georgia Davis thriller that’s set both in Chicago and the Arizona border, is now on AUDIO. Katherine Joan Taylor is the narrator, and she did a fabulous job!! You can get it here and here, and soon, on Overdrive … Read more
