Today author Morgen Bailey in Northampton, Eng., hosts me on her blog. Morgen is multi-genre author and a prolific blogger who posts daily on a variety of writer-related topics. I
shared my thoughts with her and her followers on point of view, a topic dear to my heart. I am convinced that going with the first person POV was the most important decision I made in writing Safe Harbor. Read about how I came to this decision here.
Updated: Jul 26, 2022
I’ve arrived! Jack Batten, the Toronto Star‘s renowned crime fiction reviewer, takes on Safe Harbor today. Here’s what he says:
Jack Batten
Somebody’s trying to kill a 7-year-old Toronto kid named Tommy. His mother has already been murdered, and the person summoned to Tommy’s defence happens to be Pat. She’s a 40ish widow with two university-age daughters, a good job as a financial planner, and a house in Moore Park. To protect Tommy, Pat finds herself dealing with a Fine Old Ontario Family and with some guys who act a lot like Middle Eastern terrorists. She isn’t sure which group is more daunting.
McCracken’s first novel offers a coherent structure, an exact feel for the Toronto locales, and, in Pat, a hugely attractive sleuth figure.
Wow! Jack’s words have made my year!
Updated: Jul 26, 2022
The Minden Times, the weekly newspaper that serves the Haliburton Highlands where my vacation home is located, has done a great profile of me in its current issue. The headline is Cottager crafts crime in Highlands.
Google Alerts just informed me that the presses rolled earlier this evening.
I spent almost an hour being interviewed by Times reporter Chad Ingram last week. It was great fun — and a whole new experience for a jaded old journalist like me to be on the other side of the interview table.
Chad was interested in crime fiction, getting published, journalism. You name it. Great to talk to a keen, interested reporter. And, sweet guy, he didn’t even ask my age, which I always do in interviews.
Having a book published is a whole lot of fun!