An Interview with Jennifer Robson

Elise Cooper: Can you describe your characters? Jennifer Robson: I write about women I would like to be friends with. People have to understand during the World War I era many women were not brought up to be decisive and assertive. I want to write plausible characters...

FOGGED INN by Barbara Ross Reviewed

FOGGED INN by Barbara Ross Kensington Pub Date: March 2016 It’s late autumn in Busman’s Harbor, Maine, and the Snowden Family Clambake is closed until spring. To help make ends meet during the off-season, Julia Snowden and her boyfriend, Chris Durand, are doing dinner...

Five Things Dumb Criminals Do Online

FIVE THINGS DUMB CRIMINALS DO ONLINE (A THRILLER WRITER’S GUIDE)   While conducting research for my novel, The Advocate’s Daughter (St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur, March 22, 2016), I came across several reports about criminals who were caught because of their Google...

J.T. Ellison's NO ONE KNOWS Reviewed

No One Knows J. T. Ellison Gallery Books March 22nd, 2016 No One Knows by J. T. Ellison is part mystery, part psychological thriller, and part cautionary tale. It is one of those stories that show fairy tales do not always come true. The themes of trust, betrayal, and...

Cat Fight, An Article by Clea Simon

I never thought talking cats would be controversial. Honestly I’m still not sure they are, but if you saw the Wall Street Journal on March 1, or if you listened to NPR’s “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me” the following weekend, you’d see that I have supposedly...

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE Reviewed

10 Cloverfield Lane Directed by Dan Trachtenberg Written by Josh Campbell, Matthew Stucken, Damien Chazelle Starring: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher, Jr. The less you know going into 10 Cloverfield Lane the better. It’s not a romance, but...