I first “met” author Susan Van Kirk through Sisters in Crime Guppies. I was looking for an editor before sending The Hanged Man’s Noose out into the world, and Susan recommended Lourdes Venard, who she’d been working with. I ended up hiring Lourdes (find her at Comma Sense Editing) and I credit Lourdes in large part for helping me get Noose “ready.”
Today, Susan has three books and one novella out in her Endurance Mystery series, and is hard at work on a new series. She was kind enough to host Calamity Barnstable, the protagonist in Skeletons in the Attic, recently on her blog:
My name is Calamity Doris Barnstable and I was named after Calamity Jane, a Wild West frontierswoman of dubious repute, although to be fair, my mother actually named me after the considerably softened version of Calamity Jane played by Doris Day in the 1950s. Honestly…if you want to have a good laugh, you need to check out this YouTube video clip from the movie, where Doris sings Secret Love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU8tQpCZEzg
Be that as it may, no one calls me Calamity and gets away with it. I’m Callie, and this is my story.
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