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J.C. Paulson

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Saskatoon, Canada
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Dorothy Sayers, P.D. James, Martha Grimes, Louise Penny

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June 2017


J.C. Paulson thinks a mystery can, and perhaps should, also be a love story.
Switching from fact (journalism) into fiction (novels, mostly) later in life, it seemed a natural thing to combine the two. Evil versus good. Hate versus love. Think Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, and a host of cozy mystery couples — not that her novels are very cozy.
Changing the world would be nice, too. Fiction allows us to swallow the bitter pills of social injustice and still (hopefully) be entranced, entertained and entangled in their solutions.
A rabid reader of mystery novels, J.C. Paulson has long admired the works of Dorothy Sayers, P.D. James, Louise Penny and Ann Cleeves.
She lives in a rambling bungalow on a quiet street in Saskatoon, Canada with he
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J.C. Paulson Update: I'm presently publishing Broken Through, my sequel to Adam's Witness. It will hit Amazon Sept. 27 in Kindle, and hopefully paperback within th…moreUpdate: I'm presently publishing Broken Through, my sequel to Adam's Witness. It will hit Amazon Sept. 27 in Kindle, and hopefully paperback within that week.


I'm about 40K words into the sequel to Adam's Witness. Where the first book was inspired by a church's action against a gay choir (several years ago), the second one deals with the death of a woman and the subsequent search for her killer, and the questions around why women are murdered or go missing. I also advance the love story begun in the first book.(less)
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I became a character in a book

And then found myself in a group of new friends.

In this case, Number 13 was lucky.

Sometime in the first half of 2022, I received a message from author K.T. McGivens. To my extreme (and happy) surprise, she admitted that she was writing the thirteenth novel in her Katie Porter cozy period mystery series . . . and I was in it.

Was I okay with that?

Well, K.T. You think?

Somehow, K.T. semi-transformed m

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