The Byrdcliffe Library Project Has a New Home
The Byrdcliffe Library catalogue is now up and running on LibraryThing. Please come visit us there for updates, cover art, and additional author information.
The Byrdcliffe Library Project Has a New Home
The Pevensie Codicil is Now a Claymore Top Pick!
Very excited to find out that The Pevensie Codicil has been named a top pick in the 2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Awards for Fantasy.
The Pevensie Codicil is Now a Claymore Top Pick!
Come Bid on Being a Character in The DeCoverley Riddle at the Staatsburgh Summer Soiree
A Harlequin stealing lawn signs is the kind of thing you expect in a sleepy Hudson Valley town like Morgansburg, NY. But when the Harlequin stabs a guest in the middle of a masked ball, Morgansburg’s annual Jane Austen conference will never be the same. Would you like a ticket to the dance? You, too,
Come Bid on Being a Character in The DeCoverley Riddle at the Staatsburgh Summer Soiree
Oh, Yes, There will be Lampposts. A Witch and a Wardrobe Too.
I am delighted to report that The Pevensie Codicil, my tale of the girl who was left behind when the four Pevensie children returned to Narnia, has been shortlisted in the Fantasy category of the Historical Novel Society’s First Chapters Competition. Not that I needed any reassurance that my recent trip to Oxford was more
Oh, Yes, There will be Lampposts. A Witch and a Wardrobe Too.
I’m So Excited…
To announce my debut at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine with “The Problem of the Vanishing Sopranos,” a new Watson and Doyle story. You can find a copy here. And if you’re interested in finding out more about the world Watson & Doyle live in, you may enjoy my related blog post here.
It’s… Alive! The Woodstock Library’s First Annual Exquisite Corpse
What, you may ask, is an exquisite corpse? It is a game much like Mad Libs or the old-fashioned parlor game of Consequences, in which a series of artists or writers each adds a paragraph or picture part in sequence, knowing nothing or very little of the previous contributions. The name comes from a sentence
It’s… Alive! The Woodstock Library’s First Annual Exquisite Corpse
New Story Up at Mysteries to Die For
Mysteries to Die For (M2D4 to many of us) has just released its latest anthology,Things That Go Jack in the Night. To quote the official description: In the English language, there are a few, very special words that can function as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. One word goes further, creating new words from old.
New Story Up at Mysteries to Die For
The Last Riddle of Ransome Peake is a Claymore Finalist!
Thrilled — and more than a little gobsmacked — to report that my latest standalone mystery, The Last Riddle of Ransome Peake, has just been nominated for a Claymore Award for Best Comic Novel. Harmony Dalgleish is a Woodstock native and British rock star’s son. Harmony has just flunked out of graduate school after losing
The Last Riddle of Ransome Peake is a Claymore Finalist!
A New Watson & Doyle Story!
This time, Watson & Doyle set out to investigate a classic locked-room mystery, when an unassuming librarian appears to have poisoned an entire library board. Interested? You can find it here.
Ever Wonder What a Real AI Program Would Make of Doyle?
Then please stop by Bookworms in the Wild, where host Howard Altarescu as ChatGPT that very question.
Ever Wonder What a Real AI Program Would Make of Doyle?