Book club will find intersection of two careers
Later this week, I am meeting with the Sand Point (MI) Book Club. They invited me to their lunch meeting because one of my novels, "Murder so Sweet," was selected as their read for the month.
I love meeting with devoted readers who scour my work and then pick my brain about it. This will be no different. They are smart with sharp wit and humor.
But I wanted to mention this book and our upcoming review of it because it is a testament to my intersecting careers. I've been a writer and journalist most of my life, and I've been a licensed Realtor for the last 15 years or so.
The idea for "Murder so Sweet" generated from my work as a real estate agent. I spotted a scam alert from one of my real estate associations about a ring of predators that stalked female agents through their online profiles and then set them up for sexual assault in the guise of a family home showing.
The alert prompted me to ask questions about assaults on agents – both men and women. Shocking. Hence, the main character in "Murder so Sweet" is Natalie O'Brien, an agent in Bay City, MI, who is trapped by predators and assaulted. She fears reporting the brutal assault would end a fledgling real estate career, her only income for two daughters – her husband killed in Iraq.
Finally Natalie tells big brother and little sister what happened. The siblings are outraged, and Larry, a former Army Ranger, says "lets hunt them down and kill them." The sisters did not object. These first two acts of murder create a blood lust that launches the O'Brien family into a group known as the Vigilant Vigilantes – but who are popularly referred to in whispers and hushed tones as the Vagina Vigilantes.
I reread "Murder so Sweet" over the weekend so it will be fresh in mind for the meeting with the Sand Point Book Club, as well as others. I have eight novels in the Nick Steele Mystery Series, each available on Amazon or directly from the author/publisher, who would be me! Nothing artificial about any of the works – real people, real places, real life issues. Just real-good fiction.
Murder, So SweetDave Vizard
I love meeting with devoted readers who scour my work and then pick my brain about it. This will be no different. They are smart with sharp wit and humor.
But I wanted to mention this book and our upcoming review of it because it is a testament to my intersecting careers. I've been a writer and journalist most of my life, and I've been a licensed Realtor for the last 15 years or so.
The idea for "Murder so Sweet" generated from my work as a real estate agent. I spotted a scam alert from one of my real estate associations about a ring of predators that stalked female agents through their online profiles and then set them up for sexual assault in the guise of a family home showing.
The alert prompted me to ask questions about assaults on agents – both men and women. Shocking. Hence, the main character in "Murder so Sweet" is Natalie O'Brien, an agent in Bay City, MI, who is trapped by predators and assaulted. She fears reporting the brutal assault would end a fledgling real estate career, her only income for two daughters – her husband killed in Iraq.
Finally Natalie tells big brother and little sister what happened. The siblings are outraged, and Larry, a former Army Ranger, says "lets hunt them down and kill them." The sisters did not object. These first two acts of murder create a blood lust that launches the O'Brien family into a group known as the Vigilant Vigilantes – but who are popularly referred to in whispers and hushed tones as the Vagina Vigilantes.
I reread "Murder so Sweet" over the weekend so it will be fresh in mind for the meeting with the Sand Point Book Club, as well as others. I have eight novels in the Nick Steele Mystery Series, each available on Amazon or directly from the author/publisher, who would be me! Nothing artificial about any of the works – real people, real places, real life issues. Just real-good fiction.
Murder, So SweetDave Vizard
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