Reading and signing at Capital Books
Thursday, June 30, 2022, 4:30-6:00 Pacific. Reading and Book Signing at Capital Books–In Person. Chat, thanks, free wine and snacks. Giveaway [...]
Join me for launch?
Tomboy launches in the last week of June. I hope you'll join in some of the festivities. (Copy Boy launched [...]
Book release party at Bogle Winery
Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 6:30-8:30 Pacific. You're invited to help me celebrate TOMBOY’s publication day at Bogle Winery with wine and heavy [...]
Tomboy’s docked
Tomboy has docked. My personal order of real and truly-finished books has arrived early, like an inciting incident. A box landed on my porch, delivering [...]
Tomboy–Chapter One
As a sneak preview of Tomboy, publishing June 28, 2022, enjoy the first chapter here. CHAPTER ONE Monday, June 26, [...]
Start Jane Benjamin’s adventure with Copy Boy–free upload
I loved Mona's cranky, disgruntled humor in Elizabeth Gonzalez James's debut novel, MONA AT SEA. That's why I was so [...]
Grateful for early readers
Book-making is such a long process, full of landmarks. Today, seeing Tomboy's final cover, I'm very grateful to the authors [...]
Cantankerous and fussy
I wrote Copy Boy, my first of the Jane Benjamin novels, in ten years, dipping in and out of the [...]
Launching the Mystery Review Crew
In just three days, January 10, the Mystery Review Crew website will launch, sharing news, reviews, interviews, videos and more [...]
Four free books I heartily recommend
My writing group, the RBGs, got me through the pandemic. (The 2021 chapter of it anyway.) I don't know what [...]