Jane Haseldine's Blog

The lovely folks at Kensington Publishing gave me the green light to include an excerpt from my upcoming suspense novel, The Last Time She Saw Him, the first in a new series,  that officially comes out on June 28 (not that I’m counting the days or anything, but holy cow, people, I’m excited!). Here’s a look: […]

The first album I ever bought was Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band’s Nine Tonight when I was fourteen years old. I used the money I earned from my first check as a chambermaid, the only job I could land that summer because I wasn’t sixteen yet and my friend’s dad owned the little […]

I completely stink at sales, which is probably one of the reasons I never tried getting a summer job in retail when I was a teenager. This complete aversion to selling anything started when I was eight and joined Girl Scouts. I was so horrified at the idea of having to sell Girl Scout Cookies […]

I always considered myself a blue-collar writer. I am a scrappy journalist, a former crime reporter who never took a creative writing class, and I certainly don’t have an MFA under my belt, just a J degree from Syracuse University and a lifelong love of books (thanks to my mom who took my siblings and […]

Today I hesitated whether to send my kids to school. Not because of the recent stomach flu that has spread like wildfire through my boys’ elementary school, including one poor girl who threw up on stage in the middle of the holiday chorus concert, but because our neighboring school district, Los Angeles Unified, closed this […]

A few weeks ago, I got the call from my literary agent that I’d been waiting on for what seemed like twenty-nail-biting, “For the love of God, why isn’t this happening for me?” lifetimes. I answered the call to, “Congratulations!” We got a two-book deal with a great publisher. After running around in circles like […]

Christmas Eve, and I was stuck in my car at the traffic light with a bunch of other crabby last minute shoppers, all of us likely frenetic and pissed we hadn’t checked off the last items on our list like those rare ultra-organized people who do their Christmas shopping in March. I heard the car […]

Julia Gooden remembers nothing about the worst night of her life. Thirty years ago, her nine-year-old brother Ben—the person who promised he would always protect her—was abducted from the room they shared. Try as she might to recall any clue or detail, there is a black hole where Julia’s memories of that terrible event should […]

Ovidia Yu was already one of Singapore’s best-known writers, penning more than thirty plays before she had her first mystery published in the U.S., the tasty “Aunty Lee’s Delights” (HarperCollins), that made its illustrious debut this fall. Ovidia creates a delightful sleuth in her Aunty Lee character, a sweet, older widow with a penchant for […]