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: I had a lot of plans for how much I'd accomplish this week. Finish tweaking that police procedural/serial killer book to enter in a contest. Review my other dark police procedural and decide whether to submit it. Get out the editor's comments on the Dog book and start revising. Create a new graphic to…
Kate Flora: It's serendipity, given the way our monthly blog post schedule works, that I get to blog today. The timing is perfect, though, because tomorrow my eighth Joe Burgess police procedural, Such a Good Man, debuts. It's kind of amazing to me that the series has reached Book 8, with another one in the plotting stage.…
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,…
Infatuation, threats, and lies are all on the menu in this thriller from Kate Flora. When high school teacher Alexis Jordan becomes the focus of a disturbed teen things quickly spiral out of control. And as the danger intensifies Alexis learns that not all of her friends are allies. With more twists and turns than…