Mollie Hunt Cat Writer: THIS IS ME
I began my first serious writing venture with a stand-alone mystery about an antique dealer who discovers a note in the back of an old picture frame and follows its lead to a small coastal town where she finds both love and murder. I received many rejections for that 450-page tome, but instead of letting it get me down, I went on to write another book.
2013Fast forward nearly twenty years to when I finally got something published. That was the first Crazy Cat Lady cozy mystery, Cats’ Eyes. This year I’ll be launching the eleventh in the series!
2024Today I’m going to sit down and contemplate thirty years of writing, three series, 18 published books, and more to come. As with a long journey made by putting one foot in front of the other, I have progressed on my own journey, one word at a time.
For those of you not familiar, I’m going to indulge myself in a little recap, one series at a time.
THE CRAZY CAT LADY COZY MYSTERY SERIES, featuring Lynley Cannon, a sixty-something cat shelter volunteer who finds more trouble than a cat in catnip.
Books need not be read in order.
Lynley Cannon is the crazy cat lady, but she’s not quite crazy yet, though a bizarre connection to a bumbled heist and a double homicide has got her wondering When Lynley’s old kitty Fluffo discovers a stolen uncut diamond, Lynley finds herself accused of murdering the thieves.
When Lynley exposes a breed cat counterfeiting ring, she becomes the target of a serial killer who murders with a grisly cat-like claw.
Two suspicious deaths at an elite art retreat send Lynley running back to Portland, but murder follows in her wake.
Lynley takes over as cat handler for a TV pilot only to find the show is hexed and murder is waiting in the wings.
A body is discovered on the floor of the cat café, and all the black cats are missing!
****Winner of the World’s Best Cat Litter-ary Award
When a superhero cosplayer falls to his death at a comic con, Lynley is left holding the bag— and a cat!
****Winner of the CWA Muse Medallion for Mystery
A locked room. A dead man. The cat is the only witness, and he isn’t talking.
Five years ago, cat shelter volunteer Lynley Cannon discovered a gym bag in a warehouse. Inside the bag were a kitten, a cat toy, and ten thousand dollars. Then shots began to fly. Now, half a decade later, Lynley is thrown back with the very people from whom she’d been running.
An eccentric recluse bequeaths his vast estate to little Friends of Felines cat shelter, but the gift comes with a catch. Lynley faces ghosts when she moves into the mansion to care for his clairvoyant cat.
This Halloween, the cats are hiding, and the monsters don’t wear costumes.
Crafty Cat, coming this fall! Romance, death, and cat quilts.
What does quilting have to do with murder? Lynley Cannon is about to find out when she joins a guild to make donations for a cat rescue.
Next series: My Masterwork, the Tetralogy
