Kate McMurray's Blog, page 48

the first time

My first novel comes out about a month from now. It feels weird to call it "my first novel." It is my first published novel, but it's far from the first thing I've written or even the first novel I've finished.

But I think there's some trial and error in writing. You never get it right the first time. The first novel I ever finished was this overwrought teen drama that I wrote when I was maybe seventeen. On the rare weekday afternoons when I was home (I participated in a lot of...

cop stories

It occurred to me today that, if you count my forthcoming novel, I currently have three projects in the works with cops as major characters. I have no idea how that happened.

Well, I do. I think I've always been in awe of people who work in professions that I admire but could never do myself. That, and I had a friend in elementary school whose father was NYPD, and I remember thinking how cool that was. (And, thinking about it now, he would have been a cop in New York City in the 80s, which...