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Coffee and Biscuits Chat

Grab a cup of Jo, some of these wonderful chocolate chip cookies, and join us as we grill our guests Heather and Patricia...who gets the nice big comfy hot seat err chairs lol.

Welcome Heather, I hope you're doing well.

Thank you for having me.

So our readers have posed some questions for you.

  1. Why this genre? What was it about mystery writing that drew your attention?

HH-A: I love mysteries, always have. The first book I can remember reading as a kid, aside from Uncle Remus, was Nancy Drew’s The Secret of the Old Clock. I was nine at the time and it changed my life. I absolutely loved it! So when I decided to write a novel, I knew that would be the type. You know, a writer lives in her or his head 24/7 on a project. You’d better like what’s going on in there.

PB-A What could be better than romance. I write what strikes my fancy, be they historicals or even some paranormals. As a reader I'm well rounded, I think writing what I read makes sense. And what could be more romantic then writing about the time of knights and vikings, of cowboys and Cortesans.

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