When my mystery series starts with
Murder, Honey, my protagonist Carol Sabala is a baker who fantasizes about becoming a private investigator.
I didn’t set out to write a “foodie” mystery. At the time, the sub-genre didn’t exist. Rather I made my heroine a baker so she would be something other than the English teacher I was. I didn’t want readers to envision Carol Sabala as me. Little did I know back then that everyone who knows me would picture Carol as me even if I made her a green . . . .
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