El Segundo Author Fair  

One of the nice things about working in a library is that titles pass across the desk that are fun to read, informative or down right enlightening. Well I had one that was all three. It was neither fiction or non-fiction, but a book that took the current reigning mystery/suspense authors and had them write down how they created their main characters! It's called "The Linup" and was compiled and edited by Otto Penzler.

So I am now inspired to do the same. This evening when I get home I will try something like that and place it on this website. I have brief descriptions of the four main characters that recur in each book, but really giving the history of those characters and how I came about creating them might be fun and enlightening, both for me and you, my faithful reader!

Keep a watch for it.

This has been an odd year. It always feels like the earth is tilting, and time is flying. And whenever I think about that I get sad. There is so much I want to do and never have the time to do it. This comes home more and more as the people I have connected with either are passing on in the dying sense or in the moving out of my life sense. When these things happen I am torn between being morose and thinking I need to get stuff done before my time comes!

My sales on the first book have flattened, and I have sold a few of the second, but the lack of sales are totally my own fault. I need to motivate myself to get going and get out of the daily rut. I am not expecting to be discovered by some editor or agent, or publisher for that matter, I just want people to be interested in reading about Lydia and her co-horts, a different way to solve a murder and the chance to learn that genealogy is fun and enlightening.

So if you read this and have read my book, pass the word along. I think Lydia Proctor is worth a read. But then that's just my opinion.