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| Credit to Tom Watterson/Calvin and Hobbes |
The
number one rule writers are taught in the hard-knock school of writing is
“write what you know.” Which is all fine and good, unless you are a pushing-social-security-age,
rule-following female who writes about murder. I am going to put this out there
to all of my past, present and future readers, I HAVE NEVER KILLED ANYONE just
to research a book (or for any reason, for that matter). Nor have I ever
stumbled across a dead body lying in the garden or sitting in an empty garage
or floating in the surf (my husband has, but that’s another story for another
day.) The only dead bodies I have seen/touched have been prettified, with hair
styled, dressed in their best Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, lying in a casket.
But I will admit to having done a few things, all in the name of research.
