www.bookbub.com/reviews/2929... Adorable new mystery series featuring Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and a whole gang of famous authors.

If you're going to Left Coast Crime, stop in and see a few Blackbird Writers!

Published in The Riff (Medium.Com)

Janet Kintner was appointed to the bench in 1976, one of only 3 female judges in San Diego. Sixty years later, we still don't have an Equal Rights Amendment, and loud voices are calling for women to get back in the kitchen!

Just added #31 to my ALL-Time-Favorite-Mystery-Author list! J Michael Orenduff:

Honored to have my essay posted today on well-known mystery author Debra Goldstein's blog!

A well-written cozy mystery!

Art history, time travel, and a mystery!

Who's on your All-Time-Favorite-Mystery-Author list?

On her 15th birthday, Brigit Quinn learns that she descends from an ancient line of clever, magical Celtic women. This is a charming YA novel about learning who you are, where you’ve come from, and what choices will serve you best.

Diane Botnick's beautiful and moving debut novel is about identity, memory, survival, and belonging. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/bec...

Theater review (and general criticism of Chicago's Navy Pier)

Daria Lavelle's zany, well-written novel is about New York’s food scene, the most esoteric and expensive foods, ghosts, finding a soulmate, and losing one’s soul. #Aftertaste #novel #ghosts #podcast

A unique mystery with time loops and a 1950s feel.

Looking for a cute mystery about an aging drummer who's talked into planning a robbery while rehearsing for an amusement park show?

Just read a lovely mystery set in 1978-

Sarah Cartell was raised in a small town in Canada, in a family of white supremacists. As a college student, she decides to infiltrate a racist group so she can sabotage their despicable plans to hurt others, but her duplicity becomes unbearable.

Latest New Books Network podcast - IF THE OWL CALLS by Sharon White. Set in Norway in the 1970s, an investigator heads to the northern region where the “Sami” people live to investigate the sabotage of a dam. While he’s there, a body is found in a hidden ravine. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/if-...

G.P. Gottlieb on Being Derailed

Thanks to Chicks on the Case for posting my essay: Basing Characters on Friends and Adversaries:

For 50 years, Leah has written an annual New Year's letter to her fellow teachers' college colleagues in Israel. She falls in love, is unfairly maligned, makes bad decisions, is proud or aggravated about her sons, and is betrayed more than once. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/hap...

Thanks To Valerie Biel for posting my essay: Always Wear a Scarf (about a long-ago train incident involving a hemp plant).

Simone is 9 years old when she escapes from Belgium, her father shot by Nazis. Told from different perspectives, Simone in Pieces is a stunning historical novel that spans her life as a refugee, a student, a divorcee, an academic, and someone capable of love. newbooksnetwork.com/simone-in-pi...

Sister Bernadette, a retired nun, inspires her neighbors at the Abbey Senior Residences to protest a developer who will destroy their neighborhood. When unexplained deaths start happening, Bernie uses all the tricks she learned as a schoolteacher to help the police in this sweet, cozy mystery!

Want to read a free NETGALLEY of BATTERED: A WHIPPED & SIPPED MYSTERY? Available through Nov 15. www.netgalley.com/widget/96202...

Here's what I have to say about cliches:

Claudia Rose confronts two mysteries at her H.S. reunion: the unsolved case of a missing classmate and the death of a teacher. Claudia's skills as a forensic handwriting analyst and Sheila Lowe’s dark imagination had me turning pages long past bedtime. #partnersincrimeblogtours

Lord and Lady Terrence Reid are among the guests at a Cotswold “Chef’s week." One person is there to stir up old grudges and restart his career, and everyone has a reason to want him dead, but Reid is stumped when both his parents and sister confess to the murder. newbooksnetwork.com/mary-birk-vi...

Thanks to suspense novelist Peg Brantley for highlighting me (and including my essay about Escaping into Fiction with Peg) in her October newsletter! I've learned that much of writing is about helping other writers. pegbrantley.substack.com/p/escape-int...

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Thanks to Melissa Westemeier for posting my story on her website today!

It’s 1605, and Isabella (Isabella's Way, She Writes Press 2025) learns that the Inquisition has begun attacking small communities that were forced to convert from Judaism. She has to leave Portugal as soon as possible, perhaps forever. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/isa...

Thanks to Karen's Killer Book Bench for posting my essay about writing,"HE SAID, SHE SAID." url:https://www.karendocter.com/karens-killer-book-bench-amateur-sleuth-mystery-battered-whipped-sipped-mysteries-book-1-by-g-p-gottlieb/

An essay about writing and unsolicited advice.

Zoey Kozinski is shocked when the cop who lets her ride along one afternoon gets shot. We don’t know if the murderer will be stopped before he silences Zoey, the only witness. I loved Crime Writer's characters, the forward motion, and being in the hands of master storyteller, Vinnie Hansen!

Thanks to Kathleen Kaska for posting "Birding and Murder at Montrose Point in Chicago" on her widely admired blog - kathleenkaska.com/blog/

A cinematographer gets unfairly blackballed from the industry and accepts a position in the film department at UW. To get tenure, she's making a film about poachers in Zimbabwe. Someone will kill to stop her in this gorgeous novel about fighting for women's and animal rights.

Mona is 10 years old when she experiences a sudden temporary blindness in this gorgeous novel (Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser) about overcoming loss, art, history, and family. newbooksnetwork.com/los-ojos-de-...

Still hoping to learn the rerelease date!

In sharp, insightful stories set in Canada, The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories portrays muddled, saucy women who struggle with impending adulthood, difficult men, and dysfunctional families. newbooksnetwork.com/the-beauty-a...

GO ON PRETENDING is about Rose, who produces 1930s soap operas, her daughter Emma, born in the USSR but now in America, and her daughter Libby, who joins the revolution in Syria - 3 generations of strong women who insist on living as they choose. #novel #podcast newbooksnetwork.com/alina-adams-....

A few days in Santa Fe....

The Dime Museum is an intriguing novel-in-stories that revolves around Charlie, who lacks purpose and works in a Venice bookshop in exchange for books that he doesn't read. We meet his family, his ex-girlfriend, and all those whose lives and decisions formed him. newbooksnetwork.com/joyce-hinnef...

Want to Know What Annoys Blackbirds? open.substack.com/pub/blackbir...

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