Last year I joined the Seven Sinister Sisters' Blog Tour as Sue Star to celebrate the release of my book. Here's what I wrote about it over at Mysteristas:
Murder by Moose is the fourth book in the Nell Letterly series. This book takes Nell up into the mountains for a self-defense retreat during leaf season (which is also hunting season). Of course she finds a body! Moose trampled? Or something much worse...?
When I wrote the first draft of my first Nell book some years ago, I wanted to tell the story of how Nell, a suburban, menopausal single mom of a teenage daughter, comes to teach karate in Boulder, Colorado. I never expected to do a series. But at the end of that book, I found that there were still a lot of issues I hadn’t addressed--issues that tell the larger story surrounding Nell--and I suddenly found that I was writing a series.
One of the first questions a series has to figure out is how much time should pass overall? A mystery bookseller once gave me some advice that made me decide to keep this series short--maybe only 6 or 7 books. I figured that two or three months between each book would be about right for what I wanted to do.
The first book takes place in March, the second in May, and the third in August. When I started to plan the fourth book, I already knew it was going to have to take place sometime in the fall. In Colorado that means a high country setting with golden aspen leaves, hunters, and...moose!
I had such a fun time writing this. But now I have to figure out: where should I take Nell next? There will probably be a turkey dinner...and a body...and...?
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