Kate Flora: This weekend I’m moderating a panel for Sisters in Crime sistersincrime.org on the subject of writing cops right in our fiction. It’s a subject dear to my heart, since much of what we’ll cover is what I’ve had to learn for my Joe Burgess series. We have a fabulous panel, including our own…
Kate Flora: Last week, when a friend, Clea Simon, had to have surgery the week her book came out, eight of us got together to do a Zoom book launch for her. After we’d each read our assigned portion, we spent some time discussing the book. Not a difficult task, since Clea is a pro,…
Kate Flora: When I embarked on my crime writing journey back around 1983, I naively thought that what a writer did was sit at her desk and make things up. It didn't take long for the crime writing (and reading) community to set me straight. In our world, we are writing for a sophisticated audience. Our…