I thought the story about readers identifying with characters in your work was apocryphal. When it happened to me with unpleasant results it surprised me. In my first book, NO DICE, a character changes his name when he enters law school, hoping to disguise his...
Interview with Mystery Author Mar Preston Posted by Nicole Weaver on June 27, 2012 at 8:47amView Blog Mystery author See http://www.bloggymoms.com/profiles/blogs/interview-with-mystery-author-mar-preston# Mar Preston talks about her latest novel, Rip-Off, the second...
My second murder mystery has been published, titled Rip-Off. People ask why you write one kind of book and not another. Why whodunit murder mysteries in my case? Why not literary family fiction? I worked decades as an academic researcher at the University of Southern...
Authors are assigned to panels at these conferences and we looked at one another when we met trying to find the commonality between us. Is it that we all struggle with the problem of getting our protagonist in and out of danger. We all have to find a believable...
The Left Coast Crime Conference held in Sacramento, California brought together fewer agents and editors that I had noticed in last year’s conference. A quick scan of the program revealed only five panels out of the fifty-two varied offerings dealing with the...
