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 [...]
Interviews are dangerous
It's like I'm a sophomore. It's fascinating to me how a person can turn sixty and still feel, well, sophomoric. To [...]
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 [...]
Noir-y Holidays
I love my local bookstore, Capital Books, partly because they just like to have fun with books. To that end, [...]
A number for Barbara Stanwyck
Poet Barbara Hamby's "I Beseech Thee, O Yellow Pages" scratches an itch today. Thanks to my friend, author Amanda McTigue, [...]
Shopping for 1939 fashion
Writing historical fiction means a lot of learning. Some of it gives me a headache. But other research topics are [...]
Recreating 1939’s RMS Queen Mary
Though half of Tomboy takes place on RMS Queen Mary in 1939, I was never able to visit her in [...]