Kaye George – Page 2 – M. K. Waller

I was about 500 words into a post about Kaye George’s new novel, Choke: An Imogene Duckworthy Mystery, when, upon clicking Save Draft, I received an error message I’d never seen before.

Then I discovered I was logged into HOTSHOTS!, the local Sisters in Crime chapter’s newsletter, and was, in effect, about to post on the wrong blog. The Sisters probably wouldn’t have approved.

Grateful for the error message, I tried to get back to the draft so I could cut and paste it into To write is to write is to write.

Guess what. It wasn’t there. Sometimes To write is not to write.

Sounds downright Shakespearean, doesn’t it?

Never mind.

I then logged into To write, etc., and rummaged around to see whether the vanished draft had somehow landed here. Stranger things have happened. But not this time.

So. I shall behave with my usual grace under pressure. I shan’t say mean things about anyone. Or anything. Or lament the loss of that most excellent essay.

I shall instead close up shop and go to bed.

If, tomorrow, I can bring myself to start again, I shall, but with the knowledge that any attempt to match the quality of the original is futile.

That piece was dead brilliant.

The poor, half-eaten fish to the left graces the cover of Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology.

Guppies is a chapter of Sisters in Crime, an organization dedicated to the promotion of mysteries written by women.

Guppies is short for The Great Unpublished.

The title is misleading: a number of Guppies are very published, but they remain in the chapter to school the rest of us.

Fish Tales, a collection of twenty-two stories written by Guppies, was recently released as an ebook. A hard copy will soon be available.

I don’t have a story in the anthology, but one of my critique partners, Kaye George, does. It’s titled, “The Truck Contest.”

Kaye’s first book, Choke, will be published by Mainly Murder Press this May. Its protagonist, Imogene Duckworthy of Saltlick, Texas, aspires to be a private investigator.

Immy has written two articles for Hotshots!, the Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter newsletter. The article in the November 2010 issue explains how to qualify as a private investigator. In the February issue, Immy discusses advice she will give if her three-year-old daughter, Nancy Drew Duckworthy, ever stops playing with Barbie dolls and asks how to be a PI. The November article is informative, but if you really want to know how Immy approaches her cases (she isn’t a private eye yet, but she still manages to have cases), read the one in the February issue. It’s Immy in a nutshell.

But back to Fish Tales. The ebook is available from several major vendors. I’m getting ready to purchase one to read on my computer. I’d like to wait for the print version, but I’m in a bit of a rush. There’s a slim possibility that “The Truck Contest” might be about Immy. I’m becoming addicted to her. She’s a hoot.