And most of all, she’s matured from a woman who was running away from a life she didn’t want, to someone who runs towards the life she does want. She’s altered her goals, expectations, and how she deals with her mother. This means that Skye has lost cars, houses, and boyfriends. I realize with a long series that stagnation is always a risk, but I have made a continued effort to allow my characters to change and grow. Expect some interesting future plots about my experience hunkering down for a tornado. The guy who gave me a hard time didn’t end up dead-at least not in real life.Īnd having recently moved back to rural Illinois, I’m now collecting more small-town stories, too. In fact, in my new book, Murder of a Cranky Catnapper, I used one of my own run-ins with a school board member. Because I was a school psychologist myself for twenty-two years, I still have tons of great plots. I love Skye and her pals, and I’d be sad never to visit with them again. I’m thrilled that my series is such a long running one, and I’m always a bit surprised when someone asks me when I’m going to end it. And since I had my own ideas on setting, sleuth’s appearance, and sleuth’s occupation, it was lot harder than if I’d have put Scumble River in Alabama, made my sleuth Skye a size six, and had her own a bookstore or work in law enforcement.įew editors wanted to take the gamble on a book that didn’t fit the mold and am I ever glad the editor at NAL/Signet/Penguin was willing to give me a chance! With the first book, Murder of a Small-Town Honey, in its fifteenth printing, and the nineteen book, Murder of a Cranky Catnapper, due out September 6, I think it’s safe to say there was more interest in a curvy, Midwest, school psychologist than a lot of folks ever realized. Nearly twenty years ago, cozy mysteries were nowhere near as popular as they are now. And even then, it took that agent eighteen months to find a publisher. It took a long time and two hundred and seventy rejection slips to find an agent. Getting my first book traditionally published was a long and arduous journey.
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