Amazon Best of the Year
The Shining Girls made Amazon’s Best of the Year 2013 in Mystery & Suspense along with Stephen King, JK Rowling (as Galbraith) Joe Hill, George Pelecanos, John Grisham, John Le […]
Literary Hunger Games & Best Interviews 2013
Zola Books got their staff to propose a literary Hunger Games, nominating their favourite characters from novels that might stand a chance in a literary death match. I’m thrilled […]
Under My Skin
There’s a quote in Zoo City: “Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.” I see it come up a lot – out of context: tweeted by fashion store twitter accounts, […]
Finalist in RT Book of the Year
A happy thing! RT Book Reviews has named The Shining Girls as one of the finalists in their Editor’s Choice Book of the Year awards AND in the 2013 Suspense/Thriller […]
Violence as a first language
I lost my cool in this interview with Zola Books, particularly talking about how we depict violence and serial killers and a friend’s murder that still makes me upset. But […]
Goodreads Choice Semi-Finals
Super-stoked that The Shining Girls made the semi-finals of GoodReads Choice Awards Best Books of 2013 in the Mystery & Thriller section. There are some very fine books on the […]
The Power of Reviews
Sometimes reviews tell you things you hadn’t realized about your book, that you can later nod sagely and claim, “Oh yeah, that’s totally what I was doing. Planned it all […]
Here Be Deskcats
Free to good home.* 1x adorable desk cat. Ginger. Male. Seven years old. Very sweet tempered and affectionate. Mostly. Answers (sometimes) to “Boy” or “Sputnik”. Definitely does not bite your […]