When my first novel was published in 1965, I celebrated the launching of my literary career--and then didn't publish again until 2001. In 2010 I wrote my first murder mystery, Dorothea in the Mirror, and decided this was my true genre. I'm now working on the third Jill Szekely mystery. I also regularly write reviews for Midwest Book Review. I've taught creative writing classes and participated in read-and-critique groups. For many years I served as reader for agent Bertha Klausner, and ghost-wrote a book for one of her clients, a Catholic nun.
I am currently working on a mystery about the crisis house for women where I worked for seven years as Night Director. Much of the material is taken straight from journals I kept at the time. I hope to keep the story true to life, to make a contribution to the current reality style, but I am finding it difficult to blend truth with fiction. Life does not fit itself conveniently into plots, nor does it always offer sufficient action.