Fellow bloggers unite!

A list of authors who blog...
...and some others:
Laurie King (author of the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes mystery novels)
Jennifer Weiner (of Good in Bed fame)
S.J. Rozan (author of the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mystery novels set in Chinatown)

An interview with...

...A.M. Homes, author of The Safety of Objects and Jack. Dark and engrossing, Homes' novels are touched with a wicked and morbid sense of humor. Here's another interview...

degrees of separation

Everyone is supposed to be only six degrees separate from any other person in the world. Well, I've never been N degrees close to any writers or authors (except for that one time I got to meet Jill McCorkle at the NYPL), but recently I got a few degrees closer to a writer -- sort of! My sister-in-law Laura, has an ex-boyfriend, Brian, who has a sister, Cristina, who just published her first collection of short stories. Entitled Come Together, Fall Apart, Cristina's debut collection has been reviewed in Booklist and Publishers' Weekly and one of the stories was in The New Yorker last year. Ok, so I'm stretching it a bit -- I've never even met Cristina, but judging by the New Yorker story and the reviews, Ms. Henriquez will be a writer to watch.