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This month the theme is "My favorite commercial." At this time in my life, I dislike commercials. After watching shows on Public Broadcasting and not having commercials interrupting the flow of the show and then streaming shows without commercials, I now get irritated with them.
But as a kid, my favorite commercial was the owl and the Tootsie Pop, which around Halloween you see the commercial now and then. I don't know why but the way the owl says, "One...Two...Three... always makes me smile.
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I'm happy to say that book number 6 in my Spotted Pony Casino Mystery series is up on pre-order with a release date of September 6th.
Down and Dirty
The Spotted Pony Casino’s head of security, Dela Alvaro, receives a late-night call that takes her to a deserted walkway along the river. After confronting a woman babbling about love and bodies being buried, Dela stumbles over a corpse and discovers her knife covered in the victim’s blood.
Dela and Tribal Detective Heath Seaver find themselves
working with FBI Special Agent Quinn Pierce when the murder seems to be
connected to a drug cartel. Dela nearly becomes the victim of a hit-and-run
while someone is trying to frame her for the murder.
Proving her innocence has Dela interviewing past
acquaintances and members of a drug cartel, all while trying to decide if the
woman she met the night of the murder is truly crazy … or the killer.
Pre-order here: https://books2read.com/u/bagQ66
I came up with the idea for this book when I was checking out the River Walkway in Pendleton, OR. I came across the bridge, you see on the cover and below, and thought what a great place for my main character, Dela Alvaro to come across a body at night. Once that took root, I came up with why she would be there late at night and how she could be pulled into the murder. But the fun twist came when I met a woman who intrigued and scared me at a book event.
This woman captured my writer's curiosity and as soon as she walked on, I began writing down all the details of our meeting to use it in a book. I just didn't realize it would be the book I was writing. In a way, I believe I put her in the book to make her seem real and not so scary. I won't lie, after talking to her, I was a bit shaky and felt like a fool because I was scared. Unfortunately, the other person in the booth with me had been on the phone and didn't hear the woman's rantings or see how she transformed.
That's all I'll say about her. You can either pre-order the book and wait to read about the "scary" woman on September 6th or check out my blog post on the Ladies of Mystery blog on Aug. 12th. On that post I talk about my encounter with the "crazy" woman.
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6 comments:
How many real life people make it into your books as characters? I've bits and pieces of real people embedded in the characters in my books but I don't think I've ever heard of such a direct transfer of a person into a character. I do agree that writing scary events into a story/book helps ease the scary piece.
Interesting inspiration for a book!
Paty, I'm not a big fan of commercials, either. I do remember the funny tootsie pop owl, though.
I've had encounters with interesting strangers where I immediately wrote everything down to use in a story later, so I can relate. Looking forward to reading your new book!
Judith, I don't usually use a complete person, but this one was so intense and different from anyone I'd ever met before that I didn't want to change anything about her.
Thanks Lynn!
Sarah, when I come across someone doing or acting in a way that attracts my attention, I have to jot it down and use it in a secondary character somewhere. I think many writers are the same way.
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