Cutter (Gail McCarthy Mystery series Book 1)

Some regard it as an angry god that must be appeased and humored.

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They are almost superstitious about it. You are a very prolific writer. What is your process?

This is a hard question to answer. To begin with, my process looked a lot like imitating Dick Francis, using my own background. I wanted to write about cutting and ranching and team roping and breaking colts and horse packing…etc, and I used the form of the mystery novel to do it.

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Whenever I got stuck, I would open a Dick Francis novel and see how the master approached this sort of dilemma. My first two or three novels really show this influence. Over time I learned to write to a deadline. However, after my first novel, I had a contract and a deadline for all subsequent novels.

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Some of my best writing came from periods when I was just slogging along, getting it done. I also learned to wait. To let things percolate. Publishing has changed so much in the last decade. What are your thoughts on this? What are the challenges authors face today?

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Yes, it is SO different from when I started. Then you had to get an agent and your book had to be bought by an editor. Editors almost never bought unagented books. And it was terribly hard to get an agent because legitimate agents worked only on a commission basis. Thus they really had to believe in your work before they would take you as a client.

And, of course, there were and are always an infinite amount more folks wanting to be published than traditional publishing would take on. So the agents and editors weeded out what they deemed the good from the bad. I can tell you that putting my backlist which was out of print up as Kindle editions has been quite a nice thing for me.

I get a check every month, far more than I used to earn in conventional royalties. We must talk about the horses. Can you speak to the relationship between wo man and horse in general terms, and in your own experience?

My earliest memory is of being put on a horse with my uncle and loping along in the saddle with him. Ever since I was first allowed to buy a horse with my own hard-earned money at the age of fifteen , I have always owned horses. I no longer compete on my horses or train horses, but my son and I still trail ride together on our steady mounts. And I still have my two older horses that I competed on for so many years—they are retired now.

Gunner 34 and Plumber 25 are featured equine characters in my novels, and Sunny and Henry our two current trail horses come into the last two books Going Gone and Barnstorming. Our much-loved pony, Toby now deceased and buried here is featured in Chasing Cans.

My life, like my books, has been very much about horses, and I am still passionate about them, although these days living with my horses here on our property probably means more to me than any other aspect of my horse life. I think there are many women and a few men who, just like me, have been passionately drawn to horses all their lives. Some, like me, have been lucky enough to live out their dream.

I wrote my novels to all these other horse lovers, including those who never quite had the life with horses that they dreamed of. A portrait of the artist in her element. What are your writing projects going forward? Do we fans have any Laura Crum projects to look forward to? I love writing blog posts on the Equestrian Ink Blog. I probably never would have started my own blog, not thinking that anyone would be interested in my day-to-day thoughts. But having been invited to join Equestrian Ink several years ago, I have really enjoyed writing posts and connecting with readers.

I always meant to write a dozen novels in the Gail McCarthy series, and that goal has been accomplished. I recently finished a brief memoir about my real life history with horses that is meant to be a companion to the mystery series.

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I plan to have it up as a 99 cent special on Kindle in the next few months. Not sure if I will publish it or not. But it was an interesting experience to write something that I wanted to write just to please myself. Do you have a favorite amongst your wonderful stories?

All the books are special to me for one reason or another. I think I improved as a writer quite a bit after my first novel—Cutter is definitely a slightly more amateurish book than the others. It is a book that I really enjoyed writing, and much of the material in it comes from journals that I wrote while horse packing and camping in those mountains.

In some cases, as with Chronicles of Narnia , disagreements about order necessitate the creation of more than one series. If the series has an order, add a number or other descriptor in parenthesis after the series title eg. By default, it sorts by the number, or alphabetically if there is no number. If you want to force a particular order, use the character to divide the number and the descriptor.

So, " 0 prequel " sorts by 0 under the label "prequel. Series was designed to cover groups of books generally understood as such see Wikipedia: Like many concepts in the book world, "series" is a somewhat fluid and contested notion. A good rule of thumb is that series have a conventional name and are intentional creations , on the part of the author or publisher.

For now, avoid forcing the issue with mere "lists" of works possessing an arbitrary shared characteristic, such as relating to a particular place. Avoid series that cross authors, unless the authors were or became aware of the series identification eg. Also avoid publisher series, unless the publisher has a true monopoly over the "works" in question.

So, the Dummies guides are a series of works. But the Loeb Classical Library is a series of editions, not of works. Home Groups Talk Zeitgeist. The 12 Days of LT scavenger hunt is going on.