"Shot of pure pleasure"

FAST COMPANY magazine selects THE RIDDLE, by Andrew Razeghi, as one of its "Smart Books" for 2008.

On the fiction side, Ed Gorman compares Swierczy to McBain, and calls THE BLONDE extraordinary.

PERSON OF INTEREST continues to garner fans. Oline H. Cogdill at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel includes it as one of the best mysteries of 2007. The Chicago Sun-Times agrees that POI is "riveting", and welcomes Theresa Schwegel back to Chicago from Los Angeles.

Paul Goat Allen (The Chicago Tribune) praises PERSON OF INTEREST as "Reminiscent of some of Joseph Wambaugh's most powerful works ("The New Centurions," "The Choirboys")... Theresa Schwegel's newest novel [is] her most accomplished yet. Aside from the novel's gritty realism and intense emotional intimacy, the numerous thematic subtleties make this blend of police procedural and suspense thriller eminently readable…"Person of Interest" is an indisputable crime fiction tour de force."

Somer's Super Foods

Ladies, if you missed this morning's Today Show, check out the article and footage online. Elizabeth Somer explained the best foods you should be eating to stay in tip-top shape - and, yes, chocolate is one of them!

POI on CBS

PERSON OF INTEREST is one of Janet Maslin's picks for the holidays on CBS Sunday Morning!

Fireworks for Schwegel

Janet Maslin, at The New York Times, gives Theresa Schwegel's newest one a spectacular review!

"ingenious...“Person of Interest” quickly escalates into a high-stakes story of risk and suspicion, told with rich, insightful detail. Some actress is destined to have a field day with Leslie, who vacillates deliberately between playing mother and vamp, plotting her moves while also spiraling out of control...[Schwegel] switches perspectives gracefully in order to convey the anger and estrangement of each member of the McHugh family. And she weaves a terrifically vigorous plot out of how their misapprehensions of one another lead them into danger."

She’s got be somebody’s baby

PW's Laura Hudson interviews Duane Swierczynski about his new CABLE series, coming out next March.

NewsARama and Comic Book Resources also talked with Duane about Marvel's famous time traveller - now a father!

The craft of crime

St. Martin's Minotaur has a brand, spankin' new blog. Guess who is kicking off the blog party with her very first blog post?

In comic news, Greg Rucka chats with Eric Moreno inside the comic writer's studio... after he delivers a mysterious artifact from another dimension.