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Eight weeks and counting…

  Death of an Eye, the first Eye of Isis novel, publishes in paperback on September 5. Click here to pre-order your copy now. excerpt from Death of an Eye “So,” he said. “Caesar was right. Not a cook.” He spoke in Latin and she responded in kind. “I’m sorry, sir. I don’t believe we’ve…

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Chugach State Park, Alaska

Photographs by Carl Batreall of Chugach State Park, edited into a video montage. Fabulous. [Some of which I saw originally in this month’s copy of Alaska magazine. You should subscribe, too.] The Chugach State Park is one of the most scenic parks in the world, with a wildlife population that would have had Pliny the…

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How My Mother and Josephine Tey Led me into a Life of Crime

Versions of this story have appeared on various blogs, in the MWA Edgar Awards program guide, and I’ve used it as a speech for library fund-raisers. My first memory is literally of my mother’s forefinger running beneath the words “Once upon a time, in a faraway land, lived a beautiful princess named Snow White. She…

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