Author: claudia

So, over the weekend, we all learned that JK Rowling had a new book out — and, in fact, that book had been out for some time. The world’s most famous author had slipped a detective novel onto the market without anyone knowing, by using a pseudonym, “Robert Galbraith.” And apparently a lot of people are slightly weirded out by that?

Just a quick note for those of you who are coming to Comic-Con in San Diego next week: I’ll now be appearing on a second panel. If you can’t join us on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. for Paranormal Passions, then maybe you can come to the Harper Epic Reads Publisher Preview on Saturday at 7 p.m. (room 9). That’s where you’ll be able to get the scoop on STEADFAST! And, of course, you could be super awesome and come to both panels. Why not? And remember, I’ll be signing on Thursday at noon, table AA09.

On Tuesday I finished the first draft of my latest WIP, the right-now-untitled first book in the upcoming FIREBIRD trilogy. And there was much rejoicing! In celebration I took two days off — and now, the work begins again. 

For those of you who missed the second half (or all) of our Hunger Games rewatch on Twitter, here’s the final hour of the film, picking up just as Rue and Katniss team up —

If you’ve enjoyed SPELLCASTER (and I hope you have, or will soon!), then maybe you’d like to see what book two in the trilogy is going to look like? Well, wait no longer –

So, the Hunger Games rewatch ran afoul of the mysterious High Gods of Twitter; apparently in my zeal to both tweet my way through the movie AND reply to all those of you who were sending me such hysterical comments, I broke the invisible boundary between “enthusiastic Twitter user” and “Internet criminal.” Therefore we had to take a break, which means the second half of the rewatch will be this Thursday at 8 CST. We get to watch Hunger Games two nights instead of one, so maybe that’s actually a plus? Anyway, I thought some of you who missed the first half might be interested to see how far we got — 

You guys seemed to enjoy the “Titanic” rewatch/livetweet I did back on the anniversary of the sinking, so I figured, let’s do it again!

If you follow me on Twitter or GoodReads (and you should), you know by now that I am a huge fan of the Maisie Dobbs mystery series by Jacqueline Winspear. Although I don’t tend to read tons of mysteries, some friends recommended these to me and I got hooked but good. Maisie’s combination of determined practicality and occasional mysticism struck me as unusual and compelling, the cases she investigates are satisfyingly twisty, and her personal life is written with such an extreme level of restraint that it only makes me wilder to find out whether any of these guys stand a chance against Maisie’s fierce independence. Yet when I began looking for fellow fans of the books, whether in person or online, I kept running into an objection: “Oh, she’s just a Mary Sue.”