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Kathleen Marple Kalb, aka Nikki Knight, is an anchor/author/mom…not in that order. An Agatha and Derringer nominated author of short stories and more than a dozen novels, she’s also a longtime weekend anchor at New York’s 1010 WINS Radio. Her series include the Grace the Hit Mom, Vermont Radio, and Ella Shane Mysteries. Active in writers’ groups, she’s currently a Marketing and Communications Liaison on the National Board of Sisters in Crime, and a past VP of the Short Mystery Fiction Society and NY/Tri-State SinC. She and her family live in a Connecticut house owned by a large calico cat.

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Kathleen Marple Kalb Thank you for asking! Honestly, I'm not sure yet. I've written a fourth Ella, and started outlining a fifth, but so far the publisher has not indicate…moreThank you for asking! Honestly, I'm not sure yet. I've written a fourth Ella, and started outlining a fifth, but so far the publisher has not indicated interest. There's also the possibility of putting it out as an indie -- but that would be further down the road. (less)
Kathleen Marple Kalb I get to make it all up! I'm a journalist by profession, and it's a lot of fun to be able to decide how the story ends for a change. I also get to go …moreI get to make it all up! I'm a journalist by profession, and it's a lot of fun to be able to decide how the story ends for a change. I also get to go somewhere else and be someone else for a while. It can be a pretty scary and nasty world right now, and I really like being able to open up my laptop and live in a place where I make the rules and decide what happens! Hint: in my world, you're kind -- or else.(less)
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DO THEY LET GIRLS DO THAT?

Do they let girls do that?
More than a few decades ago, I asked that question as I sat in the back of my mother’s Buick listening to the CBS Radio Network News, as a man with that old-school Voice of G-d delivery declaimed the top-of-hour headlines.
And I decided that if they did, I would.
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