Death of an Idiot Boss: A Kadence MacBride Mystery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781511866927)

Unlike some, I didn't start out to write a novel. I viewed learning fiction techniques as a means to improve my non-fiction writing. To that end, I took an eight-week class on how to write a novel. Our assignment was to write the first chapter of our book. I volunteered to read mine aloud. After I finished, the class applauded. "That's really good," my teacher said. "What happens next?" I reminded her that she'd asked us to write the first chapter, not what happened next, so I had no idea. She pushed me to continue the story, and by the end of the class, I wanted to know what happened next. That quest, to tell my character's stories, to give them a voice, to learn what happens next, drives me as a writer. Since then, I've sold 15 short stories and written three novels. The first two books in the Kadence MacBride Mysteries: Death of an Idiot Boss and Death of an Island Tart, and Build a Mate, the first Holiday with Love Novella are available on Amazon. The One, the second Holiday with Love will be published later this year. As a work in progress, Death of an Idiot Boss placed second in the Daphne Du Maurier Award of Excellence for Unpublished Romantic Mystery/Suspense. Death of an Island Tart was a semi-finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, second place for the Daphne Du Maurier Award for Unpublished Romantic Mystery/Suspense and won the Go On Girl Unpublished Writer Award. I've also been awarded residencies with the Great River Writers Retreat and Writers in the Heartland in addition to winning an Illinois Individual Artists Professional Development Grant for Literature. It is my sincere hope that you enjoy reading my books as much as I've enjoyed writing them.