A Chat With Friends

Welcome to the new year! I hope you had a happy and safe celebration. I spent a few moments New Year's Day at the Fairhope pier on Mobile Bay chatting with my cozy mystery's two protagonists, Judy Campbell and Art Foley.

No, I'm not crazy. Writers tend to do things like that, talk to their characters to get a feel for their personalities. So there I was, on the banks of Mobile, a beautiful blue sky above, and with the city my amateur sleuths love shining on the opposite side of the bay, we talked about their love of the city and how a world war was affecting it, its residents, and the radio station they work at.

We also talked about the couple's plans for the future, if there was any talk of a wedding we should know about. Art gave me the stink eye, and Judy rolled her eyes and muttered, "I hope so. My mother keeps asking me when is he going to ask."

They did stress that there was no time for talking about the future, not until they can figure out who murdered the radio station's lead actress without getting killed themselves in the process.

Hopefully 2026 is the year that Dead Air, gets a publisher. Fingers crossed.