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6 mass ave cambridge won t you join us if you can t be there physically you can still get a signed personalized book please just call the store at 800 542 read or 617 661 1515 and order a copy tell them you want me to sign it for you and they ll put it aside before arranging for delivery you can also order online at harvard com posted by clea simon at 12 30 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday october 28 2017 boston book fest wow do you know about the boston book fest with authors bookstores readings talks and giveaways this event has grown in its ten years into a wonderful citywide festival while there are tons of things happening today see the schedule here i m hoping you ll find time to drop by and say hi to me i ll be at the mystery writers of america booth 2 2 45 p m and the sisters in crime booth 3 4 p m talking about these great organizations and books as well on copley plaza please come on by and say hi posted by clea simon at 1 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday october 27 2017 before i was cozy back in the day there was little that was cozy about my life sure i had creature comforts thanks to a part time secretarial job that paid most of the bills and even a long haired grey cat whom i loved dearly but what i needed for soul sustenance was loud hard and fast for the first few years after i graduated from college the local music scene was the center of my life the clubs where bands played original music the rat the channel jumpin jack flash storyville among others became my third place not home not work where i could go through it i found my tribe of friends and lovers my first profession as a music critic more fundamentally in the loud garage punk scene of 80s boston i found an outlet for the emotional turmoil i had grown up with in a family plagued by mental illness and dysfunction the friends i made there understood this many of them had similar stories and the late nights were as often as not joyous celebrations of relief and release as expressions of pain or rage perhaps it is the nature of things to change at any rate things did the writing i was doing for music magazines led to more mainstream more stable jobs the clubs i knew closed the bands broke up and between the need for more sleep and the pleasures of more secure relationships i felt less of a need to learn the rhythms of new ones the books that had been my salvation growing up from c s lewis j r r tolkien and beatrix potter to lillian jackson braun and rita mae brown once again claimed center stage and i rediscovered the joy of whimsy and mystery i started writing cozies granted there was some overlap my first cozy mew is for murder featured a freelance writer trying to establish herself as a music critic throughout the six books of that series my heroine theda krakow s sidekick was a purple haired punk musician who calls herself violet haze but in the 12 years and 16 other mysteries since the music scene has receded granted not all my books have been cozies my editors usually prefer the term amateur sleuth and i ve dubbed one series pet noir but they ve been gentle no cursing no overt sex as the old saw goes the blood is dry before it hits the page and the music when it plays is secondary no longer the life blood the pulse that it was until now for world enough i ve created tara winton a heroine who shares many characteristics with the woman i once was isolated somewhat disconnected from her family and her past back in the day tara too found solace and a community of sorts in the clubs twenty years later she s not doing as well though she s marking time with a boring corporate job and drifting emotionally unable to move on from her divorce until that is she runs into an old friend now the editor of a glossy city magazine at the funeral of a former scenester a bartender bouncer who had settled down with a wife and kid before dying in what appears to be a freak accident tara and her buddy start talking at the wake and he throws her a lifeline an assignment to write about the old scene in particular about a band the aught nines that should have been famous that would have been if only the singer hadn t od d twenty years before that rising star had a tenuous connection to the man whose funeral they ve just attended in many ways all the attendees are connected and so it makes sense for tara to start interviewing her old cohort her ex peter and her best friend min scoff at the assignment but tara is grateful for the chance to write again about something she cares about to reconnect with a world that once meant so much that world is rife with drugs and sex with petty rivalries and struggles for fame and attention it is the world i once knew and still in some part of me love it is not in any sense cozy but it is a world that i was ready to revisit a story that maybe after 22 lighter mysteries i finally had the discipline to explore the skills to chronicle and the will work into the larger plotline of a double edged and morally ambiguous mystery will there be others at this point i think so though i am very much enjoying the playful feline centric cozy that i m working on now maybe it took this long for me to be able to go back and write about the club scene to balance its attractions with its excesses and flaws maybe i needed the distance to be able to see what really happened or maybe i ve simply reached the point where i can put on an old record vinyl even and think damn that was something wasn t it after three nonfiction books and 22 cozy amateur sleuth mysteries clea simon returns to her rock roll past this fall with world enough severn house an edgy urban noir she is also the author of four mystery series with cats in them the most recent being the black cat narrated as dark as my fur severn house and the pet noir when bunnies go bad poisoned pen press a recovering journalist clea lives in massachusetts she can be reached at www cleasimon com this essay originally ran on mystery fanfare the blog of mystery readers international posted by clea simon at 1 14 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday october 26 2017 my rock star moment i m opening for kristin hersh and for nick flynn s shaker flynn music project well not really hersh of throwing muses and solo fame flynn poet kelle groom and myself will be reading talking and yes playing music well some of us tonight at words music a free event at emerson college in boston part of the boston book fest lithub you can find out more and nab some free tickets here posted by clea simon at 2 30 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday october 25 2017 new england is for readers and a giveaway i sat down well virtually with jen rose smith the author of the new moon new england road trip travel guide to talk about my mysteries new england authors and more moon is also giving away two of my books the boston based world enough and the berkshires set when bunnies go bad you can enter below jen is there anything essentially new england about your mysteries clea setting is most definitely a character in my mysteries my brand new book world enough could only take place in boston it starts in 2007 just before the crash when real estate in the city was booming and the waterfront area was being transformed by tech companies like the one my heroine tara winton works for but it quickly jumps back twenty years when the waterfront was the home of a rough and tumble rock club called the casbah that s where tara found her community and several lifelong friends and where the multiple mysteries at the heart of the book begin although the clubs and the companies are fictional the setting and some of the darker aspects of the story such as the drugs are real enough in fact my publisher severn house is calling world enough a boston noir my pru marlowe pet noir mysteries which are lighter are set in a fictional town in the berkshires in books like the recent when bunnies go bad and the upcoming fear on four paws poisoned pen press pru and her tabby cat wallis have to deal with all the very real conflicts of an old berkshires mill town that now relies on tourism to get by all with some absolutely gorgeous scenery jen but you didn t grow up in new england did you clea no i was raised in suburban long island and only came up here to attend college but i immediately fell in love with the sense of place and history in new england suburbia can feel pretty generic but cities like boston and providence and towns like northampton and north adams in the western part of the state have distinct personalities i do miss the easy access to the beach but the beauty of cape cod especially provincetown makes up for the longer drive or ferry ride jen new england s full of mysteries and creepy tales from the salem witch trials to haunted places do you have any favorites clea i m not really a fan of horror though i do love me some nathaniel hawthorne and you do know edgar allen poe was born in boston yes there are some contemporary writers who are doing more playful fun takes on creepiness dana cameron writes fangborn mysteries which have werewolves in them and the hero of leigh perry s skeleton mysteries is a skeleton named sid jen are there any places in boston that you like to go for inspiration clea many the clubs i write about in world enough pretty much don t exist anymore but the city still has a vibrant live music scene and i always find myself revived after a night out at once in somerville or the sinclair or regattabar in cambridge and because i grew up near the shore i always find myself inspired by the ocean i adore provincetown and try to get there as often as possible and of course i find myself walking into harvard square pretty much every weekend the square has changed so much during my years here but i can still always find a bookstore to browse and a café to sit in with whatever new title caught my fancy jen new england has such a rich literary tradition who are some of your favorite writers from the region clea which century do you want to know about i studied literature at harvard so i still find myself muttering lines from the puritan sermon sinners in the hands of an angry god at inappropriate moments other than that j anthony lukas explained a lot about the city to me in his common ground as a mystery writer i owe a ton to robert parker whose spenser novels introduced so many of us to this city and michael patrick macdonald s all souls as well as his easter rising which has some parallels with world enough really get at the underside of the city jen do you have any plans for other new england mysteries clea yes my very first mystery series was set in cambridge and i ll be returning to cambridge with a new series in 2019 although i now live in somerville i adore the mix of old and new counterculture and academic that still makes cambridge the home of both harvard and aging hippies fun and funky my new series the witch cats of cambridge with polis books couldn t take place anywhere else jen any new england trivia you care to share clea when i worked in providence for the now defunct providence phoenix i learned that coffee milk is the official drink of rhode island the only way my parents could get me to drink my milk when i was little was by putting a dash of sweetened coffee in it so i felt like i d found my people and yes i married a man from woonsocket ri moon mysteries new england giveaway posted by clea simon at 1 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday october 24 2017 pru is back well she will be just sent off the completed manuscript of fear on four paws a pru marlow pet noir off to my editor projected pub date is august 2018 phew posted by clea simon at 10 07 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 23 2017 taking a deep breath this week it begins on thursday i m doing a really fun musical event with kristin hersh nick flynn kelle groom at emerson college and next week my new mystery world enough launches with events at harvard bookstore and more oh yeah and on wednesday i ll be announcing a contest stay tuned and i ve got new books to write so i might be quiet for a few days that doesn t mean that something fun isn t brewing posted by clea simon at 8 02 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday october 22 2017 a dark and compelling mystery thank you kingdom books she s quietly brought us four different semi mystical cat and amateur sleuth mystery series over the past decade and some edgy nonfiction before that now boston author clea simon lets her inner rock n roller out of the back room and rips into a dark and compelling murder mystery of boston s music nightlife in world enough due to release on november 1 so begins the book blog of kingdom books the book roots in simon s own passion for rock n roll to read more click here posted by clea simon at 7 06 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday october 20 2017 how reliable is your memory how reliable is memory according to neuroscientists not very while we may view any particular memory as a continuous film of a past scene those who study how the brain processes describe it as something more like a collage as a 2012 psychology today article summarized every time we conjure a memory we are not so much reviewing a complete set of stored data as re configuring a complex scene from disparate parts in other words every memory is newly re assembled and even if the pieces are accurate they may be prone to reinterpretation to read more please jump over to crimespree the wonderful crime fiction mystery blog that is hosting me today here posted by clea simon at 11 40 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday october 17 2017 boucheron in pictures what happens when something like 1 700 crime fiction fans authors publishers librarians and fans all of us readers gather in one place craziness and a lot of love i m now catching up after spending thursday through sunday at that party also known as bouchercon an annual celebration that this year was held in toronto that s where the auction in my last post took place of course i have the con cold now it was worth it so i m not going to go on at length but here are just some of the pix see if you can name the authors hope to see you all at the next bouchercon next september in saint petersburg fl oh yeah what s up with those aught nine t shirts email if you want to know more or if you want your own while i still have some posted by clea simon at 12 30 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 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