Catriona McPherson
@catrionamcp.bsky.social
Writer. Trying to turn privilege to good use. Blocker of all "both sides" BS. she/her Oh, and cats. And gardening. And cooking. Nearly forgot books. Books.
Still on the blog tour. "Writers Read" today at the Campaign for the American Reader. #FridayReads.
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What is Catriona McPherson reading?
Featured at Writers Read: Catriona McPherson , author of Scot's Eggs . Her entry begins: I've been injured and dealing with immobility, su...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Still on the blog tour. "Writers Read" today at the Campaign for the American Reader. #FridayReads.
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It's Release Day!
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Release Day!
The Devil Comes Calling
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November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's Release Day!
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I've got a lot to do in the next seven weeks, but then . . .
@janicehallett.bsky.social, @dranniegray.bsky.social, Claire Askew, Marion Todd, @michellechouinard.bsky.social, Ian McEwan, @jennycolgan.bsky.social and me are hitting the couch for Christmas. #FridayReads
@janicehallett.bsky.social, @dranniegray.bsky.social, Claire Askew, Marion Todd, @michellechouinard.bsky.social, Ian McEwan, @jennycolgan.bsky.social and me are hitting the couch for Christmas. #FridayReads
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I've got a lot to do in the next seven weeks, but then . . .
@janicehallett.bsky.social, @dranniegray.bsky.social, Claire Askew, Marion Todd, @michellechouinard.bsky.social, Ian McEwan, @jennycolgan.bsky.social and me are hitting the couch for Christmas. #FridayReads
@janicehallett.bsky.social, @dranniegray.bsky.social, Claire Askew, Marion Todd, @michellechouinard.bsky.social, Ian McEwan, @jennycolgan.bsky.social and me are hitting the couch for Christmas. #FridayReads
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* Meet the 2025-2026 SinC Board *
Vice President: Debra H. Goldstein
@debrahgoldstein.bsky.social
Want the deets on Debra?
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What has SinC has meant to her? "SinC has provided me with knowledge to improve my writing; but, more importantly, with a supportive community."
Vice President: Debra H. Goldstein
@debrahgoldstein.bsky.social
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What has SinC has meant to her? "SinC has provided me with knowledge to improve my writing; but, more importantly, with a supportive community."
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
* Meet the 2025-2026 SinC Board *
Vice President: Debra H. Goldstein
@debrahgoldstein.bsky.social
Want the deets on Debra?
www.sistersincrime.o...
What has SinC has meant to her? "SinC has provided me with knowledge to improve my writing; but, more importantly, with a supportive community."
Vice President: Debra H. Goldstein
@debrahgoldstein.bsky.social
Want the deets on Debra?
www.sistersincrime.o...
What has SinC has meant to her? "SinC has provided me with knowledge to improve my writing; but, more importantly, with a supportive community."
I'm the guest of Sparkle Abbey at the Stiletto Gang blog today, talking about making babies . . . but not like that.
@severnhouse.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social #NewBook #NewMystery #CrimeFiction
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@severnhouse.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social #NewBook #NewMystery #CrimeFiction
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Guest - Award-Winning Author - Catriona McPherson | The Stiletto Gang
Today we welcome back the lovely and uber-talented Catriona McPherson who has stopped by to share a bit about her soon to be released book, SCOT'S EGGS.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I'm the guest of Sparkle Abbey at the Stiletto Gang blog today, talking about making babies . . . but not like that.
@severnhouse.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social #NewBook #NewMystery #CrimeFiction
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@severnhouse.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social #NewBook #NewMystery #CrimeFiction
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We're talking about writing superstitions this week at Criminal Minds. Me? Of course not. It's not unlucky to miss your new book jacket out of of your blog pics. That's not why it's there.
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All this and some eye of newt, by Catriona
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November 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We're talking about writing superstitions this week at Criminal Minds. Me? Of course not. It's not unlucky to miss your new book jacket out of of your blog pics. That's not why it's there.
7criminalminds.blogspot.com/2025/11/all-...
7criminalminds.blogspot.com/2025/11/all-...
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Need some light entertainment while waiting for the polls to close?
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PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE WITH CATRIONA MCPHERSON - Miss Demeanors
I don’t know what I would do without my Vanity Fair magazine subscription. I read the back page first, because[...]
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November 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Need some light entertainment while waiting for the polls to close?
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First stop on the SCOT'S EGGS blog post today: Proust's questionnaire (not all of it). @severnhouse.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social
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PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE WITH CATRIONA MCPHERSON - Miss Demeanors
I don’t know what I would do without my Vanity Fair magazine subscription. I read the back page first, because[...]
www.missdemeanors.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
First stop on the SCOT'S EGGS blog post today: Proust's questionnaire (not all of it). @severnhouse.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social
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In a month. A month from today. I'll take care of the whole thing, Johnny. All you gotta do is show up.
You don't have to get the film reference to come along, eat cake, drink wine and buy a book (doesn't have to be *my* book) but it is the full moon that night . . .
You don't have to get the film reference to come along, eat cake, drink wine and buy a book (doesn't have to be *my* book) but it is the full moon that night . . .
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In a month. A month from today. I'll take care of the whole thing, Johnny. All you gotta do is show up.
You don't have to get the film reference to come along, eat cake, drink wine and buy a book (doesn't have to be *my* book) but it is the full moon that night . . .
You don't have to get the film reference to come along, eat cake, drink wine and buy a book (doesn't have to be *my* book) but it is the full moon that night . . .
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Another Halloween entry - very different book but also Scottish. @catrionamcp.bsky.social Cartiona McPherson's Edinburgh Murders is second in a great new series - and the children's Halloween party is excellent. More apples, and also treacle scones clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/more...
More Halloween More Apples
In Place of Fear by Catriona McPherson published 2022 The Edinburgh Murders by Catriona McPherson published 2025 [ excerpt ...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Another Halloween entry - very different book but also Scottish. @catrionamcp.bsky.social Cartiona McPherson's Edinburgh Murders is second in a great new series - and the children's Halloween party is excellent. More apples, and also treacle scones clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/more...
I've been writing a long time. I've finally done what it takes to write a blog fairly titled "Citizen Sausage". I'm very proud.
Blog tour dates and topics posted for December's SCOT'S EGGS
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Blog tour dates and topics posted for December's SCOT'S EGGS
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October 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I've been writing a long time. I've finally done what it takes to write a blog fairly titled "Citizen Sausage". I'm very proud.
Blog tour dates and topics posted for December's SCOT'S EGGS
catrionamcpherson.com/news/332838
Blog tour dates and topics posted for December's SCOT'S EGGS
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Dru Ann Love is a BIG deal up here at the cozy end of the mystery community and she really, *really* likes my new book.
"fast-paced and well-written mystery where nothing is as it seems ... one of the best books in the series
SCOT'S EGGS is out Dec 2 (US & UK) from @severnhouse.bsky.social
"fast-paced and well-written mystery where nothing is as it seems ... one of the best books in the series
SCOT'S EGGS is out Dec 2 (US & UK) from @severnhouse.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Dru Ann Love is a BIG deal up here at the cozy end of the mystery community and she really, *really* likes my new book.
"fast-paced and well-written mystery where nothing is as it seems ... one of the best books in the series
SCOT'S EGGS is out Dec 2 (US & UK) from @severnhouse.bsky.social
"fast-paced and well-written mystery where nothing is as it seems ... one of the best books in the series
SCOT'S EGGS is out Dec 2 (US & UK) from @severnhouse.bsky.social
Birthday books from Wednesday. It's decisions, decisions this #FridayReads. Also, here's why "what sort of books do you like?" gets nothing from me but a long silence.
October 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Birthday books from Wednesday. It's decisions, decisions this #FridayReads. Also, here's why "what sort of books do you like?" gets nothing from me but a long silence.
If only there was a Nobel Righteous Rage Prize.
"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."
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October 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If only there was a Nobel Righteous Rage Prize.
We need a hashtag for posting fluff at the mo. Maybe #everythingisshitbut?
Anyway, #EISB we're all whining about the bits of our cushy jobs that we nevertheless don't love like a basket of kittens, this week on the Criminal Minds blog. So relatable . . .
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Anyway, #EISB we're all whining about the bits of our cushy jobs that we nevertheless don't love like a basket of kittens, this week on the Criminal Minds blog. So relatable . . .
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In a WURRLLD of novels, THIS was some jacket copy, by Catriona
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October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We need a hashtag for posting fluff at the mo. Maybe #everythingisshitbut?
Anyway, #EISB we're all whining about the bits of our cushy jobs that we nevertheless don't love like a basket of kittens, this week on the Criminal Minds blog. So relatable . . .
7criminalminds.blogspot.com/2025/10/in-w...
Anyway, #EISB we're all whining about the bits of our cushy jobs that we nevertheless don't love like a basket of kittens, this week on the Criminal Minds blog. So relatable . . .
7criminalminds.blogspot.com/2025/10/in-w...
How incapable am I of having written this? Let me count the ways. But I get title-envy, right? AS THE WICKED WATCH, Tamron Hall's brilliant and brutal debut about the murder of a Black child on Chicago's South Side for #FridayReads
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
How incapable am I of having written this? Let me count the ways. But I get title-envy, right? AS THE WICKED WATCH, Tamron Hall's brilliant and brutal debut about the murder of a Black child on Chicago's South Side for #FridayReads
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I've said this before, but one of the more striking things about the current generation of righties is that they really show no sign of understanding that there's a world *beyond* their screens, beyond owning & being owned on social media. A real world, with real people & real problems.
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
October 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I've said this before, but one of the more striking things about the current generation of righties is that they really show no sign of understanding that there's a world *beyond* their screens, beyond owning & being owned on social media. A real world, with real people & real problems.
Two timelines - 1990 Kuwait and 2015 Texas - and the grinding tension of what you know is coming in both of them and when they crash into each other too . . . This is a fabulous #FridayReads from @pujaguha.bsky.social .
October 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Two timelines - 1990 Kuwait and 2015 Texas - and the grinding tension of what you know is coming in both of them and when they crash into each other too . . . This is a fabulous #FridayReads from @pujaguha.bsky.social .
Do you dog-ear, highlight, add your pearls in the margin? No judgement. It's reading notes this week at Criminal Minds.
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Five stars (count them), by Catriona
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October 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Do you dog-ear, highlight, add your pearls in the margin? No judgement. It's reading notes this week at Criminal Minds.
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Ooft. I'm reading Linda Castillo's AFTER THE STORM this fair #FridayReads. Which is great. But once I've read *it*, I've only got book seventeen, RAGE, left. I'm trying to keep that for the Christmas holiday. But I know myself . . .
October 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Ooft. I'm reading Linda Castillo's AFTER THE STORM this fair #FridayReads. Which is great. But once I've read *it*, I've only got book seventeen, RAGE, left. I'm trying to keep that for the Christmas holiday. But I know myself . . .
Holiday themes - US-style, so likes of Easter and Solstices. I'm a big fan of them as a jumping off point.
September 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Holiday themes - US-style, so likes of Easter and Solstices. I'm a big fan of them as a jumping off point.
I'm giving the keynote (after lunch, soothing, soundtrack to a wee siesta) at the otherwise dynamic and sparkling
@capitolcrimes.bsky.social con this year.
If you're registered, waddaya wanna hear? I've got such a generic title I can talk about anything. Maybe not recipes- Wait! They'd work too.
@capitolcrimes.bsky.social con this year.
If you're registered, waddaya wanna hear? I've got such a generic title I can talk about anything. Maybe not recipes- Wait! They'd work too.
September 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I'm giving the keynote (after lunch, soothing, soundtrack to a wee siesta) at the otherwise dynamic and sparkling
@capitolcrimes.bsky.social con this year.
If you're registered, waddaya wanna hear? I've got such a generic title I can talk about anything. Maybe not recipes- Wait! They'd work too.
@capitolcrimes.bsky.social con this year.
If you're registered, waddaya wanna hear? I've got such a generic title I can talk about anything. Maybe not recipes- Wait! They'd work too.