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I'm generally reading at least three books at once: one paper, one audio, and one e-book. I get a lot of my e-books from BookBub, and if you do too, here's a way to make sure you'll never miss a deal on a Greer Macallister e-book: "follow" me there.

Here's where you do the clicking/following thing.

My current e-book is for research, but here's what else I'm reading right now: CELINE by Peter Heller (we're on a panel together at the Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 20) and THE BOOK OF SUMMER by Michelle Gable (it just came out today!)

Read on!

how I became a detective

Writing fiction takes you in many directions. For my first novel THE MAGICIAN'S LIE I got to explore the world of stage magic, and how novelists are illusionists who work in words. For GIRL IN DISGUISE, about the first woman in the US to become a detective, I got to explore the similarities being being a detective and being a writer.

Here's an article about that process -- it's also a nice introduction to Kate Warne and how the story I tell about her in GIRL relates to the historical record... what there is of it.

Enjoy!

the big five zero zero

Wow! GIRL IN DISGUISE hasn't even been out two months -- more precisely, it's been 45 days -- and already five HUNDRED people have given it a rating on Goodreads. Amazing!

Thank you, readers. I'm so happy to have Kate's name out there and know my book is in good hands.

And I'm still taking questions over there for #mysteryweek -- join the fun!

answering questions at Goodreads

It's Mystery and Thriller Week at Goodreads, and both THE MAGICIAN'S LIE and GIRL IN DISGUISE have some claim to that category, so I've opened up the line for questions! All you have to do is type in your question. Easy-peasy.

Here's where you do it.

Looking forward to some fun Q&A!

THE MAGICIAN'S LIE movie news!

Ooh, this is just too exciting. Tucked snugly into this Deadline article about the new production and development head at Freckle Films is the name of the screenwriter who's working on the film adaptation of THE MAGICIAN'S LIE! I love this stuff. The movie is a far cry from being in theaters quite yet, but this is an encouraging sign.

Read the update in Deadline here.

(And the adaptation of my friend Camille Pagan's novel LIFE AND OTHER NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES has a screenwriter AND a director! So awesome!)

message in a novel

Wrote a little something this month for Writer Unboxed about the messages our novels send, whether we mean them to or not. I pulled together some illustrative examples from the worlds of comics and TV as well as from my own novel, GIRL IN DISGUISE (about Kate's rumored love life and what choice I had to make about where her heart takes her.)

Check it out here.

two great deals for your e-reader!

Happy Friday -- celebrate with a double deal! THE MAGICIAN'S LIE is on BookBub today, so you can buy the e-book on any e-reader platform for only $1.99.

Grab that here!

And if you're a Kindle person, looks like GIRL IN DISGUISE is down from $10 to $5.99 -- not a bad deal, and I don't know how long it'll last!

Click here for that deal!

Already got both books? If you enjoyed one or the other or both, please spread the word and tell your friends about the discount -- the more the merrier!

vote for OverDrive's Big Library Read!

Are you a reader? You're eligible to vote for OverDrive's next Big Library Read! And you can imagine how thrilled I was to see GIRL IN DISGUISE on the short list of nominees.

Voting ends soon -- Thursday, April 27 -- so get those votes in now! You can vote for up to three options, so if you loved several books on the list, let 'em know.

Vote at this link -- and thanks!

happy birthday, Shakespeare!

Just a quick note on a Sunday to say this: it happens to be Shakespeare's birthday, and I contributed a little something to this feature on Books That Shook Us about fierce heroines from Shakespeare and what we love about them. I am a Beatrice (Much Ado) fan from way back, so of course I chose her. She's witty and flawed and she loves with a grown-up love... well, read it and you'll see.

Check out all seven featured heroines here.

one whirlwind month of GIRL!

Where did the time go? It's already April 21, which means that GIRL IN DISGUISE has been out in the world for exactly a month. It's been a whirlwind, to be sure, and I can't possibly sum it all up in its entirety here. But I can give you a few highlights, and thank readers profusely -- thank you, thank you, thank you! -- for giving Kate Warne's story such a warm welcome.

A few link-y highlights:

• NPR calls GIRL a "spunky spy saga"
• a fun interview on Radio Iowa
• GIRL headlines a Bookpage feature on Untold Stories
• and GIRL is both a Midwest Connections Pick and an Indie Next pick for April!

And then this, always this: while in Chicago, I spent some time at Graceland Cemetery, paying my respects to Kate, who is buried in the Pinkerton family plot. The big obelisk here is Allan Pinkerton's, and off to the far right you see three tall tombstones: a generic "employees of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency" stone, one for Timothy Webster (an obvious inspiration for Tim Bellamy in GIRL) and one for Kate.

Her name is misspelled on her stone as Kate Warn. I couldn't help correcting it, if only temporarily.