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" Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel. "
Publish
Turned
Wanted
" Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior. "
Swim
Cliff
Golden
" I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11. "
American
Story
Girl
" I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time. "
Life
Outside
Conservative
" I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work. "
Country
Time
Long Time
" I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming. "
Friend
Chicago
Charity
" I live and die with the Chicago Cubs. "
Chicago
Live
Die
" I love to sing. I'm a soprano. "
Sing
Love
I Love
" I'm a daydreamer. "
Daydreamer
" I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one. "
Proud
Grandmother
Mighty
" I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with. "
Life
Partner
My Life
" I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues. "
Hope
Very
Loyal
" In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women. "
Mystery
Men
Women
" I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book. "
Thought
Write
Never
" I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. "
Writing
World
Financial
" I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life. "
Time
Tough
Thought
" It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating. "
Pages
Took
Write
" I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. "
Graduation
Science
College
" I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses. "
Glasses
Wish
Looking
" Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed. "
Most
Advertising
Create
" My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. "
Me
Parents
Stay
" No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship. "
Pursue
Book
Relationship
" People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more. "
Together
Privacy
People
" Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets. "
Chicago
Rich
Ride
" Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide. "
Crime
Now
Sisters
" Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write. "
Really
Panic
Think
" Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. "
New
Because
Think
" The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are. "
Finding
Best
America
" The crime novel has always been my favourite genre. "
Always
Been
Crime
" The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon. "
Ever
Criminals
Horizon
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