WWAR w/Misty Part 1Show NotesOn today's episode, we welcome the wonderful Misty Night, the newest member of our club.Misty lives in central Pennsylvania and has been writing for a long time. She has over 50 bookspublished in several genres. She started out writing greeting cards and then went on to write children'sbooks with little or no success. She began to write romance novels but soon gravitated to the world ofmysteries. She writes the Ivy Morris series as well as the Tallie Graver and her latest is the Whit andWhiskers series (under the name Gabby Allen). Her other series include the Adventures in Ghosisitting,Magically Suspicious Mystery, and the Kissinger Killes series.We are thrilled to have Misty join us and look forward to visiting with her whenever she can join us.In duscussing things our listeners might not know about us....Ann talked about her dream of becoming aRockette dancer. She was crushed to learn that there was a strict height limit and her own measurementof 5'0” would not make the grade. Tracey talked about the contest she won 10 years earlier. She won theGrand Prize from Sony Pictures contest for the movie 2012. Then Misty surprised us to find out that shewas mentored by a well-known opera singer and that she was on her way to becoming an opera singer(with a 3-octave range).Down to business, Tracey gave a review of the book “Coached Red Handed” by Victoria Laurie and waspublished in July 2022 by Kensington Books.With Gilley heartbroken over the collapse of his marriage, Cat has the perfect remedy—a three-week-longgetaway to Italy. But before the duo can pack their bags and sip prosecco on the sunny riviera, they first musthelp a troubled client carve out a fresh start of her own. Wealthy Scarlet Rubi desperately seeks a greaterpurpose and immediate distance from her toxic descendants. The urgency of the situation isn’t quite so clearuntil Scarlet takes healthy steps towards progress, only to turn up dead . . .The matriarch of a wealthy family has been murdered in her home after finding a new lease on life. Cat’ssuspicions deepen when she discovers Scarlet was set on cutting off her children and grandchildren, eachone more money-hungry and dependent on financial support than the last. As Cat and Gilley investigate aslew of sketchy alibis and concrete motives from the corrupt Rubi clan while preparing to leave the East Endfor Europe, they soon realize the question isn’t who had a deadly vendetta against Scarlet—it’s who didn’t?This episode ran a bit long so we have decided to end this episode here and then we will finish theepisode next week.TRIVIA:Last week's question was:Which mystery author wrote the book “Dinosaurs In the Attic?”a. Craig T. Johnsonb. Ray Bradburyc. John Bradfordd. Douglas PrestonThe answer is d. Douglas Preston. Preston began his writing career at the American Museumof Natural History in New York.From 1978 to 1985, Preston worked for the American Museum ofNatural History as a writer, editor, and manager of publications. He served as managing editor forthe journal Curator and was a columnist for Natural History magazine.[ In 1985 he published ahistory of the museum, Dinosaurs In The Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum ofNatural History, which chronicled the explorers and expeditions of the museum's early days.The editor of that book at St. Martin's Press was his future writing partner, Lincoln Child. Theysoon collaborated on a thriller set in the museum titled Relic, published in 1995. It wassubsequently made into a motion picture by Paramount Pictures starring Penelope Ann Miller,Tom Sizemore, and Linda Hunt.This week's question is:The author Thomas Harris gives very few interviews. But in one he described his working styleas:a. sometimes you really have to shove and grunt and sweat.b. Sometimes words come faster than you can write them downc. There is no style. It is pure luckd. There are months that I don't even try to writeTune in next week for the answer and part 2 of What We Are Reading in November.Have a wonderful Thanksgiving to all of our American listeners.