Today, I spent some time thinking of the books I’ve written
and how some seem to be like the energizer bunny. They keep going and going.
One of these books is Murder and Mint Tea. The book has been around since 1998
and is still selling. There have been some changes in the book but not in the
story. I updated it to include minivans rather than station wagons and I gave
the heroine a cell phone which she often forgets to use. Rather like the writer
here. I once remember an editor wanting to make changes in the book to bring
the murder up to the front and have the heroine busily solving the story. I
didn’t make that change since then it wouldn’t be my books. The story is sort
of Who is going ot kill her? I once had a reviewer write, if she doesn’t die
soon, I’m going ot kill her. So in a way, it’s not quite a mystery. But the
book continues and so do I.
Amazing to think of all the books I have out there waiting
for readers. I’m funny since I don’t count how many there are. I know there are
stories still to be told. Hopefully the new ones will have long lives, too.
There are a number of other books that have lasted and been updated and continue
to go on. That’s one of the great things about being a writer. Age ahs nothing
ot do with putting the words on paper as long as the imagination is there.
Imagination is what I do when I begin a story. Right now
I’ve been involved with dragons and evil wizards and battles physical and
mental. My next story will be a romance. Soon my imagination will travel from a
fantasy world to the one I’ve seen around me.
