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December 22, 2013
Just gimme love
She was 21, he was 24, they’d known each other for three months when they decided to get married. They were both graduate students in bacteriology at Iowa State College […]
READ MORENovember 29, 2013
Agreeing with O’Reilly and Palin about the War on Christmas
And it came to pass that the Divine Justice heard that war was being waged on Christmas. Humans waged innumerable wars. They all called on the Holy One to support […]
READ MOREAugust 8, 2013
ARC Giveaway
We’re holding a drawing to give away two advance copies of Critical Mass. To enter, simply send an email to vicontests@mindspring.com Critical Mass is partly set in Vienna during Lotty […]
READ MOREJuly 20, 2013
Girls in the Game: We Want to Hear About Women Athletes
I love Girls in the Game. Through my Sara & Two C-Dogs Foundation I support about ten programs, which range from sending kids to Montana to dig for dinosaurs, through […]
READ MOREJune 3, 2013
Buy Me Some Peanuts…
Everyone knows that V I Warshawski is a Cubs fan, but it’s been a while since she went to the ballpark. For a book I’ve just started writing, I’m imagining […]
READ MOREApril 28, 2013
Critical Mass
Here’s the synopsis of VI’s next adventure Vienna in the 1930’s was both an exciting and a terrifying place to be a woman doing physics. Exciting because the Institute for […]
READ MOREMarch 25, 2013
Passover
It’s bleak in Chicago, hard to believe that Passover starts at sundown tonight. It’s a holiday like Easter that should serve as spring’s harbinger. When I was a child, it […]
READ MOREJanuary 29, 2013
Returning Veterans and Crime Fiction
I just started reading a new novel whose protagonist is a returning Iraq-Afghan veteran. Like most fictional vets, he suffers flashbacks and nightsweats; as the reader, I don’t yet know […]
READ MOREDecember 27, 2012
Best Books of 2012
I recently asked some knowledgeable book people for the best books they’d read in 2012 (whether they were published this year or not.) Since I’m a reader as well as […]
READ MOREDecember 20, 2012
Crows Over A Cornfield
I am writing like a maniac, trying to finish the new book before the end of the year, but the end seems to be receding–kind of like the horizon in […]
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