Canadian author Joanne Guidoccio have much in common: we live about 90 minutes apart (though have never met in person), we both left the corporate world to work as a freelance writer, we both turned to a life of crime (fiction) and we both have protagonists named Arabella. I’m also a huge fan of Joanne’s Gilda Greco mysteries. I follow her excellent blog with anticipation and have been fortunate to appear on it on more than one occasion. Recently, Joanne invited me to tell her readers 10 Interesting Facts About Calamity Barnstable, my protagonist in SKELETONS IN THE ATTIC. Here’s the start:
1) Calamity (Callie) is named after Calamity Jane, a Wild West frontierswoman of questionable repute, although her mother actually named her after the considerably softened Calamity portrayed by Doris Day in a 1950s movie of the same name.
2) Callie is the only child of two only children, whose parents disowned them, and by association, their only grandchild, when Callie’s mother got pregnant at the age of 17.
3) Callie worked in the fraud unit of a bank call center in Toronto until she inherited a house in Marketville from her father, who died in an “unfortunate occupational accident.”
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I love mysteries with old houses and complicated characters. Sounds like a hit.
Thanks Mary! It’s done quite well, and the sequel will be out this fall.
Thanks for reblogging, Judy 🙂