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After 20 years as a librarian and another 20 as a professor of library science and library historian, I am moving on to my third career as a novelist. I have lived and worked in Utah, Puerto Rico, Texas, Spain, New York City, Los Angeles, and Baton Rouge. I currently live in Albuquerque with my Australian husband and brown and white spotted rat terrier dogter, Treme. When not writing, I can be found reading, baking, gardening, doing needlework, and binging t.v. westerns. Since moving to Albuquerque, the three of us have been taking road trips to the many national and state parks in the area. You can read about those on the blog.I was inspired to create the series and characters by an exhibit on the Couriers at El Tovar in the Grand Canyon. It dovetails nicely with my love of the Southwest, my previous research in women's history, and my lifelong addiction to mysteries.
Some of my favorite movies are The Maltese Falcon, Big Sleep, Casablanca, Double Indemnity, every other film noir; screwball comedies, including Ball of Fire, His Girl Friday, and Bringing up Baby; and classic westerns such as The Searchers, Stagecoach and The Magnificent Seven (as well as Kurosawa's original Seven Samurai); classics such as Citizen Kane, The Women, and All About Eve.
My favorite genres of music include Medieval and Renaissance, Classical, Jazz, Swing, Big Band, Blues.
Among my favorite authors this week are Barbara Pym, E.F. Benson, Dorothy Sayers, Anthony Trollope, Agatha Christie, Elizabeth Peters, Diana Wynne Jones, Susan Cooper, Tolkien (of course), Robertson Davies, Ngaio Marsh.
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