I wrote this a while back, and it was published a week ago, but I just found out about it today. It's an essay on how woefully prepared I was in writing a mystery novel.

Which comes out today, my third novel. Hooray! Nothing like publishing a book during a pandemic...

I love this. I’m a huge fan of not following rules, in writing and in life.

This is brave:

At the outset I was unsure about tapping into the feminine side of my main character, but as Kinsey interviewed her suspects and chased after leads, it became clear that gender doesn’t need to play an outsized role. Men and women are people after all, and as long as I consistently lived the world through Siobhan’s eyes and ears, it was going to work.