'Don't just dream it; commit to it'

 

“I love the unexplainable. It wouldbe so boring to me if everything could be explained.” –  NancyPickard

 

Born in Kansas City on this date in1945, Pickard is the only author to ever win all four major crime/mysterywriting awards – the Macavity (5 times), the Agatha (4 times), and the Anthonyand Shamus (once each).   She is a founding member and formerpresident of Sisters In Crime, the international organization dedicated to theadvancement of women mystery writers, and she also has served on the board ofdirectors of the Mystery Writers of America. 

 

A journalist first, she worked forKansas City area newspapers for a dozen years before gravitating to creativewriting at age 35.   

                         

Among the best-known of her 18 novelsare the multiple award winners I.O.U. and The Virginof Small Plains and her most recent The Scent of Rain and Lightning.   Fromher lengthy list of terrific short stories “There Is No Crime on EasterIsland” and “Afraid All the Time” have earned awards and accolades fromaround the globe. 

 

“If you have a dream of writing,”Pickard said, “that's wishful thinking.  Ifyou have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.”