It says in my profile that I joined in November, 2012. It's January, 2013, and I'm just starting this blog; I'm a novelist because I'm slow. There's a delay between the idea and the execution, the thought and the page.
Eagle-eyed readers will note that I've made a change in the brief bio above. There was a sentence stating that the Carlotta Carlyle novels were in the tradition of Grafton and Paretsky. I know it's a small point, but there was no such tradition at the time I began writing. Sue and Sara and I are contemporaries, and we each started our series thinking we were doing what hadn't been done before. Of course we were wrong; Marcia Muller, for one, was already doing it.
I'm stepping out of my usual niche for "The Perfect Ghost." My publisher is calling it a literary mystery, but I think it's a novel of psychological suspense. The advance reading copies are just starting to circulate. The cover design, by St. Martins' Olga Grlic, is among the best I've ever had.