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A
A
A
I
was
not
a
mystery
reader
growing
up
and
I
was
telling
Mary
Jane
that
about
seven
years
ago,
I
had
a
conversation
with
a
woman
I
greatly
respect
in
the
insurance
industry
who
travels
the
globe
for
her
job
and
I
said
how
do
you
decompress,
when
you're
on
a
plane,
getting
ready
for
a
meeting
in
Hong,
Kong
or
Singapore
or
Berlin,
and
she
said
I
read
mysteries
because
it
takes
me.
Someplace
I've
never
been
I'll,
probably
never
go
solving
a
problem
that
has
nothing
to
do
with
an
insurance
or
you
hope
it
doesn't.
A
Unless
you've
read
some
of
john
grisham's,
I
guess
or
you've
done
my
job.
What
was
a
mystery
to
me
when
I
was
Commissioner,
but
it
really
takes
you
to
a
whole
different
place
and
relaxes
and
at
the
end
there's
usually
a
mystery
is
solved
and
you
can
close
the
book.
So
I
gathered
up
all
the
mystery
books
that
my
mother
had
around
the
house
and
I
started.
Reading
them
as
I
was
traveling
and
I'd
become
a
huge
fan
of
mystery
books.
A
But
what
I'm
most
interested
in
and
I'm
interested
to
hear
from
Mary
Jane
is
when
you
know
how
do
you
come
up
with
your
characters?
What
what
bonds
the
characters
together
in
the
stories
and
how
do
you
bring
those
together
the
creative
process
for
us
that
have
read
many
of
Mary
Jane
Clarke's
books?
There
are
two
sets
of
characters
or
types.
A
We
know
the
characters
that
work
at
ke
y
news,
and
then
we
have
the
cake
wedding
cake
series
which
many
of
you
just
probably
read
the
most
recent,
the
piper
Donovan
mystery
footprints
in
the
sand.
Now
I
have
never
been
in
the
news
business,
but
I
got
married
once
so.
I
know
what
it's
like
to
eat.
A
wedding
cake
and
I've
never
lost
I
was
going
to
wear
my
wedding
dress
this
evening,
but
I
can't
get
into
it
because
I'm
still
working
on
that
baby
fat,
never
mind
that
I
have
stepped
children.
A
A
Now,
just
as
a
reminder
on
the
seats,
you
have
a
little
piece
of
paper.
That
says,
please
write
your
questions
for
the
Q&A
session,
so
after
Mary
Jane
has
made
her
remarks.
We're
going
to
have
a
Q&A
and
also
the
avid
hashtag
is
number
DMP
la
vie
ID,
so
we're
very
much
looking
forward
to
a
spirited
conversation.
A
Many
of
you
know
that
she's
at
the
author
of
a
two
series
of
suspense
novels
she's,
the
daughter
of
a
special
agent
with
the
FBI
ergo
I'm,
wondering
why
Piper
Donovan's
boyfriend
has
that
background,
and
obviously
she
was
in
television
news
and
has
an
incredible
career
and
we're
very
much
appreciative
of
having
her
here
all
the
way
from
Newark
this
morning.
So
please
give
a
great
Des
Moines
welcome
to
mary,
jane
clark.
B
Thank
you
very
much
Susan.
That
was
a
lovely
introduction
and
thank
you
for
the
wedding,
cakes
out
there.
That's
really
pretty
special.
It's
my
pleasure
to
be
here
and
so
far
I
have
found
Des
Moines
to
be
very
welcoming.
Jan
Kaiser
picked
me
up
at
the
airport
and
she
took
me
on
a
tour
of
town
and
we
ended
up
having
zombie
burgers
and
fried
cheese.
Curds
and
I
have
to
tell
you
excellent
I've,
never
had
fried
cheese
curds
before
believe
it
or
not,
and
I
hope
it
won't
be
the
last
time.
So,
thank
you.
B
So
much
yesterday
was
Father's
Day,
obviously,
and
I
had
lunch
with
my
father
who's
now
86
years
old
and
as
Susan
said
he
was
an
FBI
agent
and
I
said.
I
was
coming
here
today
and
I
said
you
know
the
last
time
I
was
in
Des
Moines
and
the
only
time
I
was
in
Des
Moines
was
in
1992.
I
was
here
for
CBS
during
the
Iowa
caucus,
and
he
said:
oh
no,
you
were
there
in
1956,
he
said:
I
was
being
transferred
to
the
Omaha
Nebraska
FBI
field
office
and
we
drove
through
des
moines.
B
So
thank
you
for
welcoming
me
a
third
time
to
Des
Moines
I'm
really
happy
to
be
here
tonight.
I
thought
what
I
would
do
is
I'll
speak
for
I
have
a
little
slide
show
and
basically
it
answers
to
questions
that
I
most
commonly
asked,
and
that
is
did
you
know
you
always
wanted
to
be
a
writer,
and
where
do
you
get
your
ideas.
B
Does
that
kid
look
like
she
knew
she
wanted
to
be
a
writer
I,
don't
think
so.
I
was
one
of
those
kids.
You
know
how
you
see
that
children
seem
to
either
ten
many
times
to
math
and
science
or
english
and
history.
I
was
definitely
a
history
kind
of
kid,
but
I.
You
know,
I
didn't
grow
up,
writing
a
lot
of
short
stories
and
wanting
to
write
no,
but
what
I
did
have
it
was
of
my
father
who
work
for
the
FBI,
and
so
there
was
always
a
sense
of
intrigue
around
my
house.
B
He
worked
in
the
1960s
on
red
spies
at
the
United
Nations,
that
was
the
height
of
the
Cold
War
and
I
knew
that
he
used
to
go
out
on
surveillances
secret
surveillances
at
night
and
I
would
read
sometimes
about
some
of
his
cases
in
the
newspaper
and
after
the
Cold
War
ended
or
you
know,
wound
down.
He
went
into
a
lot
of
kidnapping
and
high-profile
what
he
could
and
kidnapping
and
extortion
cases.
So
he
worked
when
Calvin
Klein's
daughter
was
kidnapped.
That
was
my
father's
case
and
barbra
streisand
son
was
threatened
to.
B
That
was
my
father's
case,
and
so
I
would
read
about
these
things
in
the
newspapers
and
I
knew
that
he
kept
a
gun
in
his
top
drawer
that
we
weren't
supposed
to
go
anywhere
near,
but
my
sister
and
I
always
you
know
snuck
a
peek
and
picked
it
up.
Even
there
was
a
real
sense
of
he
wasn't
doing
what
all
the
other
dads
were
doing
and
I
was
afraid.
B
You
know
I
was
afraid
for
him,
but
the
other
thing
that
happened
when
I
was
in
grammar
school
was
the
Kennedy
assassination
and
I
was
in
fourth
grade
at
the
time
and
I.
Remember:
I
went
to
a
Catholic,
parochial
grammar
school
and
remember
the
nun
coming
down
to
our
Christmas
play
and
we
were
practicing
and
she
said
the
president's
been
sick
is
sick.
We
want
you
all
to
pray
for
him
and
we
went
back
to
our
classrooms
and
by
the
time
we
got
to
the
classroom,
they
had
decided.
B
B
But
it
was
a
very
interesting
job,
because
every
day
it
was
different,
a
lot
of
it
was
ho-hum
rolling
wire
copy.
There
were
no
computers
in
the
newsroom
when
I
started
at
CBS,
News,
answering
telephones,
doing
getting
coffee
grunt
work,
but
you
were
around
Walter
Cronkite
was
there
and
all
of
the
Eric
severide
was
there
then,
and
all
of
those
legends
of
CBS
News
were
there,
and
it
was
a
great
honor
and
privilege
to
work
there
in.
B
1992
I
guess
this
picture
was
taken:
yawn
1992.
It
was
the
year
that
the
first
president
Bush
was
up
against
Bill
Clinton
and
that
was
taken
at
the
New
York,
the
democratic
national
convention
in
New
York
City
that
year,
and
there
was
a
lot
of
talk
at
the
time
about
Bill,
Clinton
and
Jennifer
flowers.
Do
you
remember
that,
and
that
was
such
a
big
scandal.
B
You
know-
and
everyone
was
talking
about
that
and
no
one
could
believe
that
he
had
done
that
or
they
could
believe
it,
but
they
thought
he
shouldn't
be
President
and
they
just
went
on
and
on
and
on
and
I
started
to
think
what,
if
it
was
the
first
lady
who
was
doing
the
fooling
around
and
what,
if
she
was
doing
it
with
a
network
anchor
man-
and
that
was
the
idea
and
the
premise
for
my
first
book.
Do
you
want
to
know
a
secret?
That
book
took
me
six
years
to
write?
B
It
was
two
years
to
write
it
two
years
to
rewrite
it.
Then
it
sat
on
a
shelf
for
another
two
years
before
I
found
an
agent
who
took
me
on
and
sold
it
in.
Two
weeks
so
as
an
overnight
success,
six
years
in
the
making
and
and
it
had
another
name
when
I
started
out,
I
had
this
great
scheme.
What
I
wanted
to
do
a
series
about
this
network
news
operation
and
each
one
was
going
to
have
a
the
names,
would
have
a
succession
that
would
make
a
lot
of
sense.
B
So
one
day
I
was
about
year.
Three
of
the
six
year
project
I
was
walking
along
and
borders
was
still
in
business.
Then,
and
I
looked
in
the
window
and
James
Patterson
had
stolen
my
title
there.
It
was
a
long
came,
a
spider
and
I
wanted
to
this
whole
thing
with
the
nursery
rhymes
with
well.
He
beat
me
to
it,
but
I
decided
to
come
up
with.
B
Do
you
want
to
know
a
secret,
because
I
had
read
a
book
that
said
when
picking
a
title
for
a
for
your
story,
you
should
pick
something
that
resonates
so
I
thought.
Do
you
want
to
know
a
secret
if
you're
a
Beatle
fan,
you
recognize
the
song,
but
even
if
you
aren't,
if
someone
says,
do
you
want
to
know
a
secret
you're
going
to
say?
Yes,
so
hopefully
that
would
pull
you
in.
So
that
was
the
first
story
and
then
I
got
a
booked
a
to
book
contract.
B
So
the
second
one
was:
do
you
promise
not
to
tell
and
that
took
place,
because
I
had
covered
a
lot
of
auctions
at
Sotheby's
and
Christie's,
the
big
auction
houses
in
New
York,
including
the
princess
diana
dress,
sale,
the
Jacqueline,
Kennedy
Onassis,
auctions
of
her
state
and
the
Duke
and
Duchess
of
Windsor's
estate,
so
I
was
spending
a
lot
of
time.
Those
those
auctions
came
within
very
close
to
one.
Another.
B
I
was
spending
a
lot
of
time
at
the
at
Christie's
and
Sotheby's
and
I
got
to
know
that
world
a
little
bit
and
I
thought
wow.
This
would
be
really
great
to
set
a
book
in
this
world.
So
I
had
the
key
news.
Characters
go
to
cover
an
auction
of
oj
and
the
story
results
from
there,
and
this
is
where
the
FBI
connection
also
helped
a
lot.
My
father's
partner
was
what
was
the
first
female
FBI
agent
in
New,
York
City
and
after
she
left
the
FBI's.
B
I
was
thinking
and
what
am
I
going
to
do
I'm
going
to
have
to
change
what
I
want
to
do
here,
because
you
can't
kill
someone
if
it's
not
believable
and
all
of
a
sudden
the
doors
the
elevator
opened
and
I
looked
inside
and
there
was
no
camera.
So
I
had
found
my
place
to
kill
someone
and
I
can
thank
my
FBI
connection
for
helping
me
do
it.
Let
me
whisper
in
your
ear
came
from
the
fact
that
I
did
a
lot
of
obituaries
at
CBS
and
what
many
people
don't
know
is.
B
Obituaries
are
often
done
well
well
well,
before
the
person
actually
dies,
especially
when
the
person
is
a
large
enough
personality
that
they
deserve
a
network
obituary.
So,
for
example,
all
of
the
president's
obituaries
are
done
all
the
living
presidents,
as
are
the
first.
Ladies
I
did
Walter
Cronkite's
obituary
years
before
he
died
and
the
first
obituary
was
ever
assigned
to
do
was
rose
Kennedy's
and
that
was
actually
25
years
before
she
died.
So
the
obituary
was
up.
B
You
know
she
was
in
her
80s
and
she
lived
to
be
over
a
hundred
and
or
so
look
over
20
less
than
25
years
before
she
died,
but
the
but
the
obit
was
updated
many
times
because
other
things
happened
in
her
life
and
there
were
a
few
times
where,
when
I
had
done
the
obituary,
this
happened
twice,
not
because
anyone
had
assigned
me
to
do
it
be
cut,
but
because
I
had
a
feeling
that
I
should
do
it.
Based
on
something
that
I
had
read
at
the
supermarket
in
the
National
Enquirer.
B
So
I
didn't
tell
my
boss.
That
was
the
reason.
I
was
doing
them,
but
I
told
him
that
I
wanted
to,
and
he
said
all
right.
If
you
want
to
do
them,
you
know
do
them
when
you
have
free
time
so
I
did,
and
very
shortly
after
both
of
these,
they
were
both
actresses.
They
both
died
and
I
was
like
hero
in
the
newsroom,
because
we
had
we
had
this
done
right
away
and
could
put
it
on
the
air
and
they
was
calling
me
the
Angel
of
Death.
B
So
then
I
started
to
think
what,
if
an
ambitious
young
obituary
producer
started,
having
uncanny
success
in
getting
the
obituaries
done
beforehand
of
people
who
subsequently
died,
and
the
reason
that
she
had
such
success
is
because
she
was
going
to
make
sure
that
those
deaths
happened
and
that
became.
Let
me
whisper
in
your
ear.
B
I
won't
go
like
in
huge
detail
on
all
of
them
because,
there's
you
know
limited
amount
of
time
and
I
know
we
have
questions
but
close
to
you
came
after
I
was
sitting
in
the
office
of
one
of
my
friends
was
an
on-air
correspondent
at
CBS
and
she
was
shaken.
She
was
white
and
shaken.
She
was
reading
a
letter
that
had
come
from
a
man
in
upstate,
New
York,
who
described
what
he
was
going
to
do
to
her,
and
it
was
chilling
if
she
kept
wearing
her
skirts
too
short
and
really
it
was.
B
It
was
sickening
and
it
was
very
upsetting
and
I
started
to
think
wow.
You
know
somebody
could
be
out
there
watching
you,
you
have
no
idea
who
they
are.
They
become
fixated
on
you
and
the
rest
is
history
and
then,
as
they
did
more
research,
I
found
out
that
so
many
women
on
television
are
stocked
as
our
men,
and
so
I
did
a
story
about
that.
In
close
to
you,
nobody
knows
takes
place
in
sarasota
florida,
where
I
have
a
beach
house
or
beach,
condo
and
I
brought
in
the
circus
they're.
B
Nowhere
to
what
run
takes
place
in
New,
York
City
and
that
came
I
wrote
that
right
after
September
11th
remember
that
fall
when
the
anthrax
was
sent
to
so
many
places.
All
three
network
news
organizations
got
anthrax
letters,
as
did
the
sent
the
Congress
and
the
story
comes
out
of
that.
But
basically,
in
all
these
stories,
the
key
news,
people
who
work
there
go
out
to
there
to
cover
their
stories
and
then
a
mystery
and
suspense
develops.
B
When
I
was
writing
dying
for
mercy,
the
twelfth
of
the
key
news
books
one
morning,
I
was
watching
The
Today,
Show
and
Martha
Stewart
was
on
talking
about
her
book,
wedding,
cakes
and
it
was
fascinating.
She
had
done
so
many
cakes,
each
keyed
in
to
a
different
location.
So,
for
example,
if
the
book,
if
the
wedding
was
taking
care
taking
place
at
the
beach,
that's
what
the
kind
of
wedding
cake
she
would
have.
If
the
wedding
was
taking
place
in
a
Vermont
field,
the
cake
would
have
you
know.
Maple
leaves
sugar,
maple
leaves
on
it.
B
B
Corn,
corn,
okay,
that
could
be
pretty
yeah
corn
every
cake
was
themed,
is
what
I'm
saying
so
I
thought
I
started
to
think
about
weddings
and
and
what
is
it
about
weddings
that
you
know
fascinate
people?
I
think
it's
the
idea
that
you
know
a
man
and
a
woman
find
each
other
and
hope
that
they
love
each
other
enough
to
spend
their
entire
lives
together.
B
They're,
taking
a
leap
of
faith,
we're
rooting
for
them
and
I
just
thought
after
12
key
news
books,
it
would
be
nice
to
have
weddings
where
people
got
killed-
I,
oh
god,
I,
don't
know,
but
I
did
I
wanted
a
different
venue
and
I
just
thought
it
and
you
know
and
I
think
for
the
reader.
It's
really
important
to
be
rooting
for
something
in
the
book.
You
want
your
reader
to
like
some
of
the
characters
and
want
a
happy
ending
for
them
and
and
survive
the
meanness
and
the
badness
in
the
world.
B
So
I
came
up
with
this
idea
about
having
a
wedding
cake
maker,
a
young
wedding
cake
maker,
and
in
every
book
there
were
different
bride
and
groom
different
family
and
friends
at
a
different
location
and
different
things
could
happen.
My
main
character
is
Piper.
Donovan
and
Piper
is
based
in
my
mind
on
my
daughter.
This
is
Elizabeth.
Who
is
an
actress
and
I
see
how
hard
it
is
to
be
an
actress
and
how
much
down
time
she
has
and
I
thought
and
I'm
always
saying
Elizabeth.
B
You
know
you've
got
to
find
something
else
to
do
because
you'll
go
out
of
your
mind
just
waiting.
You
know
not
that
she
waits
around.
She
works
hard
to
try
to
get
the
parts,
but
the
competition
is
bizarre
and
there's
a
lot
of
downtime
and
you
need
to
have
something
else.
So
you
go
out
of
your
mind.
So
in
my
this
was
kind
of
my
I
think
wishful
thinking,
thinking,
okay,
I'll
get
my
character
to
go
out
and
do
something
else,
and
hopefully
Elizabeth
will
do.
Will
too
so.
B
I
took
Elizabeth
and
I
went
to
there's
elizabeth
on
a
soap
opera
and
she
was
on
Criminal
Minds
the
week
before
last.
If
you
watch
criminal
minds,
the
one
where
that
guy
was
cutting
out
everybody's
tongue,
did
anybody
here
see
that
one
okay
elizabeth
was
the
one
that
survived
at
the
end
and
got
thrown
in
the
pool?
So
I
was
happy.
She
lived,
but
so
anyway,
so
she's
having
some
small
success
and
it
takes
a
while
and
I
understand
that.
B
But
we
went
to
a
wig
shop
in
LA
and
we
bought
a
long
blonde
wig,
and
then
we
had
her
eyes.
Photoshopped
green
Elizabeth
has
blue
eyes,
and
so
that's
what
I
think
Piper
Donovan
looks
like,
and
you
can
friend,
Piper
Donovan
on
facebook
and
you'll
see
you'll
see
that
picture
and
elizabeth
is
the
voice
of
Piper
on
facebook
and
then
the
cake
decorating.
I
took
a
wilton
cake,
decorating
class,
so
I
would
know
what
to
do,
and
obviously
nobody
has
to
worry
about
me.
Take
the
ladies
who
made
the
cake
get
back
there.
B
Don't
have
to
worry
about
me
being
able
to
do
that,
but
I
know
enough
to
write
about
it.
There's
what
there's
an
example
of
a
big
cake
for
me
and
that's
all
that's
really
necessary.
You
know:
I
I
know
how
to
make
a
rose
for
my
sing.
It's
not
the
perfect
rose,
but
but
it's
enough
and
you
have
to
write
what
you
know.
So
you
really
can't
write
about
cake
decorating.
If
you
don't
know
what
a
flower
needle
is
or
you
don't
know
how
to
mix
a
buttercream
or
do
a
fill
a
piping
bag.
B
So
now
I
know
how
to
do
that,
and
the
other
thing
is
my
Piper's
mother.
The
reason
it's
getting
Piper
into
the
bakery
to
make
the
cakes
is
her.
Mother
is
suffering
for
macular
degeneration
and
can't
do
the
fine
work
that
you
need
to
be
able
to
look
very
carefully
to
decorate
a
cake
so
Piper's
helping
her
mother.
The
first
book
was
to
happen
to
kill
it
takes
place
in
new
york
city
at
Christmastime
and
I
hope
to
write
a
book
in
I'm
hoping
to
do
12
of
them
all
together.
B
I,
don't
know
if
that's
going
to
happen
or
not
have
done
for
so
far,
but
each
one
takes
place
in
a
different
part
of
the
country.
That
would
be
perfect
to
have
a
wedding
that
month.
So
this
was
December
in
New,
York
City,
then
look
of
love
was
January
in
Los
Angeles.
That's
the
Chateau
Marmont,
which
I
stayed
at
to
get
an
idea
for
this
place.
B
That
I
wanted
to
have
the
wedding
at
and
I
roughly
based
it
on
the
Chateau
Marmont
and
then
also
I
found
that
there's
this
little
monastery
a
cloistered
monastery
in
Los
Angeles.
That's
right!
Underneath
the
lesson
they
are
hot,
you
know
the
hollywood
sign
and-
and
it's
just
so-
the
juxtaposition
of
Hollywood
and
everything
being
about
glamour
and
beauty
and
physicality,
and
then
this
little
monastery
where
it's
all
about
the
nuns,
praying
and
spirituality
I
just
felt.
B
That
was
just
so
interesting
that
I
wanted
to
include
something
about
that
in
the
book
and
the
nuns
to
support
themselves
make
this
pumpkin
bread,
which
we
can
get
the
recipe
online
for
and
I
have
to
say,
I
make
it
every
Thanksgiving
now
is
so
excellent.
It's
the
monastery
of
the
Angels
pumpkin
bread,
but
I
included
that
in
the
book
to
and
Piper
makes
a
cake
that
uses
some
of
their
recipes.
B
Now,
just
briefly,
I
want
to
show
you
the
history
of
how
a
book
cover
develops.
This
is
the
cover
they
came
up
for
with
for
the
look
of
love,
a
red
wedding
cake,
have
you
ever
seen
a
red
wedding,
cake,
I,
hadn't
and
I
think
those
flowers
coming
off
the
side
that
was
supposed
to
be
decay
or
something,
and
that
would
be
somehow
suspenseful
and
I
said
to
the
publishers.
I
said
you
know,
if
I
were
in
the
bookstore
I
wouldn't
want
to
pick
up
that
book
and
I
I
really
wish.
B
You
would
do
something
else,
something
that
maybe
let
you
know
that
the
book
takes
place
in
Los
a
Angeles
and
that
it's
a
mystery
in
there
suspense
involved.
So
they
came
back
with
this
and
put
a
gingerbread
angel
because
los
angeles
city
of
angels-
and
I
said
well,
I
don't
think
that
looks
too
scary
or
doesn't
give
you
a
sense
of
what
it
what's
in
the
book.
So
they
came
back
with
this
and
they
made
it
a
chocolate
angel.
B
Anyway,
I
asked
if
they
would
try
again-
and
they
came
up
with
this-
which
is
kind
of
a
cute
concept.
You
know,
but
again
it
didn't
have
any
of
the
idea
of
suspense.
It
just
looks
sweet
and
it
yeah
it's
just
sweet
and
doesn't
really
even
look
like
a
wedding
cake.
So
they
came
up
with
another
one,
and
this
I
think
was
like
a
punishment
because
they
they
they
knew
I
wasn't
going
to
go
for
the
bride.
B
B
B
B
Yeah
I
think
we
could
do
better,
that's
right.
So
then
they
came
up
with
this,
which
was
the
good
thing
it
was.
It
was
a
start.
You
know
it
had
the
Menace
of
the
knife
going
to
the
bride
and
groom
I
thought
that
was
scary.
It
told
you
what
the
books
are
about
and
then
they
just
changed
the
color
and
they
had
the
knife
come
from
behind
and
that
actually
is
the
one
that
we
settled
on
so
I
think
it's
kind
of
interesting
how
people
say.
How
do
you
know?
What
do
you
have
to
do?
B
You
have
anything
to
do
with
your
covers
and
this
time
when
they
did
that
cover
I,
didn't
say
a
word
I
just
said
it
great.
You
know
I
because
first
of
all,
I
think
it's
great
the
sand,
the
flip-flops.
You
don't
really
tell
that
it's
a
wedding,
but
it's
close
enough
and
I
thought
it
was
good
and
after
the
last
time
I
you
know
you
don't
want
to
just
be
known
as
the
one
who's
never
happy.
B
So
so
that
brings
us
to
foots
prints
in
the
sand
and
that
takes
place
in
sarasota
florida
on
the
gulf
coast
of
mexico.
That's
the
view
from
my
condo
in
sarasota
and
on
that
beach.
They
a
lot
of
sea
turtles
nest
there
this
time
of
year
and
that
home
are
you
familiar
with
the
sea
turtle?
Nesting
story?
How
really
miraculous
it!
Is
that
the
this?
B
B
You
know
the
waves,
she
digs
a
hole
and
she
by
herself
with
her
flippers
and
she
lays
a
hundred
and
twenty
eggs,
and
then
she
covers
them
all
up
and
goes
back
to
the
water,
and
it
takes
three,
almost
I
think
it's
two
plus
months
for
the
nest
to
hatch.
But
during
that
time
you
know,
animals
can
dig
it
up.
Human
beings
can
dig
it
up
for
the
eggs
it
can
be
washed
out.
B
If
a
wave
comes
over
it
or
if
there's
a
big
storm,
but
if
the
nest
survives,
the
little
turtles
have
to
get
back
to
the
water
in
the
middle
of
the
night,
they're
guarded
by
their
guided
by
the
moon,
and
if
the
condo
Beach
lights
are
on,
they
get
confused
and
they
go
towards
the
condos.
Instead
of
the
water
and
one
night,
I
was
there
when
one
of
them
hatched-
and
it
was
really
scary
because
you
could
see
there-
were
animals
lined
up
waiting
for
them
to
come
out
night,
herons
and
raccoons.
B
They
all
know
where
they
are,
and
the
people
on
the
beach
aren't
supposed
to
do
this,
but
they
were
helping
the
little
sea
turtles
get
to
the
water
if
they
get
to
the
water,
and
then
they
get
past
all
of
the
creatures
that
are
in
the
water
and
eat
them.
It
takes
20
years
before
they're
ready
to
have
their
own
babies,
and
during
that
time
they
swim.
You
know
all
all
of
the
waters,
not
all
the
waters,
the
world,
not
the
northern
waters,
but
the
southern
borders
of
the
world.
B
They
go
as
far
as
Africa
and
by
the
time
they're
ready
to
have
their
own
babies.
There
won't
lay
their
own
eggs.
They
come
all
the
way
back
and
find
the
beach
in
which
they
were
born.
I
mean
they
go
to
Africa
and
they
come
back
to
Florida
and
find
the
beach
so
I.
Just
think
that
is
so
amazing
that
that
nature
that
they
had
that
homing
device
and
that
they
do
that.
So
I
wanted
to
include
that
in
the
story.
B
The
captain
puts
a
big
bucket
in
the
water
pull
and
leaves
it
down
there
and
then
pulls
it
up
and
shows
what
you
gather
up
in
the
in
the
bay
and
one
of
the
things
that
he
brought
up
was
this
little
round
fish
and
it
had
blown
itself
up
and
all
these
little
spikes
were
coming
out
of
it
and
he
said
that's
a
puffer
fish
and
it
blows
it
up
self
up
like
that
as
a
way
of
defending
itself.
But
it's
also
a
delicacy.
And
if
you
eat
the
fish
in
Japan,
it's
a
delicacy.
B
We
don't
need
to
hear
and
they
you
have
to
know
how
to
cut
one
up,
because
if
you
eat
the
liver
and
other
parts
of
the
Fisher
will
paralyze
and
kill
you
and
that's
stuck
in
my
mind
and
then
ten
years
when
it
later
when
I
was
writing.
This
I
thought.
How
can
I
get
that
puffer
fish
thing
in
there
because
I
was
so
fascinating.
B
So
basically,
I
like
to
write
about
things
that
interest
me,
because
I
hope
they'll
interest
you
and
so
the
pufferfish
plays
into
the
story
and
different
things
in
sarasota,
jungle,
garden
and
and
also
sarasota,
has
a
very
large
Amish
population.
It's
the
Amish
snow,
blar,
gist
collection
of
Amish,
snow
birds
in
the
country
really,
and
people
from
mostly
from
Ohio
and
Indiana
come
down
there
and
I
thought
that
would
be
interesting
to
and
got
to
sample
a
lot
of
good
Amish
food.
For
in
my
research,
that's
always
important
the
food
thing.
B
Then
they
had
a
sand,
sculpting
contest
and
they
did
the
book
in
sand.
So
I'm
just
showing
you
some
fun
little
things,
but
I
want
to
talk
to
you
about
readers
and
what
you,
how
many
people
here
have
read
any
of
my
books?
Oh,
oh
good,
a
lot
well
I
want
to
tell
you
what
you
can
expect
I
and
what
you
can't
expect.
B
Obviously,
there's
violence
in
the
books.
People
die
it's
a
mystery,
but
you're
not
going
to
get
pages
and
pages
of
long
drawn-out
discussion
of
blood
and
guts.
So
if
someone
is
killed,
say
you
know,
one
man
was
pushed
in
front
of
a
subway
car
and
he
was
killed
by
the
train.
The
end
of
the
chapter
is,
you
will
feel
the
man
felt
the
hands
against
his
back
and
he
propelled
forward
onto
the
tracks
that'll,
be
it
that'll
end
it
it's
not
going
to
be
two
more
pages
of
his
brains.
B
40,
you
know
splayed
over
the
trip
over
the
tracks
or
his.
You
know,
guts
were
on
the
wall
or
there
was
blood
everywhere.
I
feel
like
I.
Don't
want
to
write
that
and
also
I.
Don't
think
I
need
to
write
it,
because
I
think
the
readers
mind
can
take
what
it
can
take
and
if
it
wants
to
think
about
the
brains
on
the
tracks,
it'll
think
about
it.
But
I
don't
want
you
to
have
to
think
about
it.
If
you
don't
want
to
and
the
same
fit
well,
not
the
same
thing
but
also
sex.
B
B
You
know
when
you
finish
wow
that
was
fun
and
all
the
clues
were
there,
but
I
just
didn't
see
it
until
the
very
end
and
then
I
realized
I.
It
was
there
all
the
time.
So
that's
really
what
I
would
like
you
to
do
to
get
in
the
books.
The
books
can
be
ready,
there's
a
mother
and
daughter
in
Georgia
who
read
the
books
and
they
came
to
the
one
of
the
signings
and
they
had
cut
in.
There
were
pictures
inside
the
books
on
that
first
wedding
cake,
mystery
and
they
had
covered
them
together.
B
B
I'll
pick
people
that
I
know
is
readers,
and
these
are
two
people
that
work
at
my
son's
school
who
have
been
very
has
something
called
fragile,
X
syndrome.
I,
don't
know
if
you've
ever
heard
of
that
it's
the
most
common
form
of
inherited
mental
impairment
and
I
carried
the
gene
and
didn't
know
it
and
David
ended
up
several
years
ago,
he's
to
almost
25,
but
he
started
a
few
years
ago
at
a
residential
school,
and
these
are
two
of
the
teachers
there
who
have
been
very
good
to
him.
B
So
I
made
them
characters
in
the
books
and
one
of
the
teachers.
It
became
a
security
guard
and
the
other
got
a
letter
opener
in
her
neck.
She
was
a
victim
and
there
she's
holding
her
neck
and
they
didn't
mind
and
I
think
they
liked
it.
So
I
do
that,
sometimes
just
for
fun
and
basically
I
would
say
I
hope
that
you'll
just
enjoy
the
stories
and
that
it's
like
going
on
a
ride
at
an
amusement
park
where
you
go
up
up
up
and
then
something
comes
down.
B
A
B
B
B
B
A
B
It
could
be
any
of
the
characters
but
then
halfway
through
about
I
have
or
even
sometimes
it's
been
as
late
as
two-thirds
of
the
way
through
I
decide
who
it's
going
to
be
so
it
just
depends.
I,
don't
wait
to
know
what
the
whole
story
is
before
I
begin
to
write,
because
I
would
I
that
would
paralyze
me
I,
know
people
that
talk
about
outlining
to
the
point
where
they
know
every
single
thing
so
that
when
they
sit
down
and
write
the
book,
it's
not
hard
and
I.
B
A
B
You
you
know
I
thought,
I've
changed,
I've,
changed
the
character
and
chained
him
from
someone
who
I
thought
was
going
to
be
good.
That
turned
out
to
be
bad
and
that's
kind
of
like
what
happens
in
life.
Don't
you
think?
Sometimes
you
think
somebody
is
good,
but
you
know
they
turn
out
not
to
be
so
nice,
so
yeah
it
just
changes.
Susan
I
develops
I
they
get
a
life
of
their
own
and
I
used
to
hear
writers
say
the
characters.
B
Tell
me
what
to
do
and
I
used
to
think
that
was
such
a
bunch
of
baloney
like
and
so
like
new
agey,
like
spiritual,
like
whew.
That
characters
told
me
what
to
do,
but
is
it
but
I
think
up?
Some
of
it
is
true
that,
as
you
get
to
draw
your
characters,
then
you
do
know
what
would
be
valid
for
them
to
do
and
how
they
would
think
and
well.
B
Yeah,
you
know
I,
don't
know,
I
should
check,
they
should
have.
They
should
have
read
your
book,
but
I
did
write
a
story
where
a
woman
goes
to
drop
her
car
off
to
be
serviced
and
she
leaves
the
keys
with
the
car
and
the
guy
who
owns
the
garage
during
the
day
takes
the
key
to
her
house
and
goes
into
her
house,
or
maybe
he
made
a
copy.
B
He
went
and
had
a
copy
of
the
key
made,
so
you
go
into
her
house
anytime,
and
that
was
just
something
I
thought
of
just
based
on,
like
the
things
that
happen
in
life
that
if
you
take
it
another
step
where
that
could
lead,
and
after
I
wrote
that
book,
you
wouldn't
believe
how
many
people
wrote
me
and
say
they
never
leave
their
house
key
on.
Do
the
ring.
B
It's
more
of
a
timing
thing
than
anything
else.
I
like
to
I
like
to
honestly
the
sounds
very
calculated,
but
I
like
to
have
the
first
murder
by
page
75
at
the
latest
and
then
have
another
one,
every
75
pages,
pretty
much
or
if
it's
not
a
murder
than
something
pretty
horrific,
every
75
pages,
because
that
makes
you
want
to
keep
turning
the
pages
and
find
out
what
happened
so
like
I
have
a
friend
that
I
he's
an
independent,
editor
and
I
sent
him.
B
My
pages
as
I,
write
them
and
he'll
make
out,
am
like
a
listing
of
chapter
one.
This
happened
chapter
two
chapter
15
and
I'll
look,
I'll,
sit
and
I'll.
Look
at
that
and
I'll
think,
my
goodness.
You
know
it's
been
over
75
pages
before
anything,
since
anything
goods
happen
and
so
I
will
go
back
in
and
put
something
in
so
because
you
know,
the
whole
idea
is
that
you
want
to
keep
moving
and
I.
Don't
want
it
to
be
boring.
B
B
B
B
B
B
First
and
I
worked
on
it
a
little
bit
in
between
then
and
now
and
did
some
copy
editing,
but
basically
I
haven't
written
much
in
the
last
two
months
because
for
me,
I
like
to
have
some
time
to
regroup
and
almost
like
a
field
that
you
just
can't
keep
planting
for
me.
I
just
can't
keep
writing
I
need
to
take
a
break
and.
A
A
A
B
I,
like
a
writers
group,
I,
don't
have
a
writers
group
I.
Have
this
an
independent
or
editor
that
I
pay
to
read
my
pages
to
discuss
things
with,
but
I
think
a
writers
group
is
great,
for
you
know
a
spy,
especially
aspiring
writers,
because
to
get
that
feedback
I
think
it's
terrific
I.
Writing
is
very
solitary
and
I.
Think
if
you
don't
have
someone
to
respond
to
it
to
react
to
it,
I
don't
know
how
you
could
keep
doing
it.
You
really
you
know
it
because
reading
is
about
the
written
word
and
the
reader.
B
B
Definitely
I
was
married
to
her
son
and
that
was
20
year
25
years
ago,
24
years
ago,
we
divorced
when
our
children
were
five
and
one.
So
it
was
a
long
time
ago.
I
think
I'm
definitely
influenced
by
her
and
in
the
biggest
way
being
that
I
thought
writing
a
book
was
something
other
people
did
I,
never
thought
that
I
could
write
a
book.
B
It
just
was
so
overwhelming
and
in
being
exposed
to
marry,
I
saw
yes,
you
have
to
have
a
creative
ideas
and
you
have
to
be
able
to
write,
but
mostly
it's
about
the
discipline
of
writing-
and
you
know
we
would
all
be
up
a
cape
cod,
waterskiing
and
golfing,
and
she
still
would
go
to
her
room
every
day
and
work
on
her
writing,
and
that
was
a
great
role
model.
I,
never
I,
didn't
when
I
watched
her
do
that.
I
didn't
think
that
I
would
ever
be.
B
Writing
I
wrote
at
CBS
News,
but
that
was
a
different
kind
of
writing
that
was
broadcast
writing.
But
quite
frankly,
after
the
divorce
and
my
son
had
the
fragile,
X
and
I
didn't
want
to
work
on
a
beeper.
All
the
time
for
CBS
I
didn't
want
to
have
to
leave.
You
know
when
you're
in
news
and
story
breaks,
you
have
to
go
and
leave
your
kids
no
matter
what
so
I
wanted
to
control
that
environment.
B
B
A
B
Me
no
one's
called
and
said
I
know,
that's
me,
but
I've
had
people
say
about
rotten
characters,
they'll
say:
I
know
who
that
is,
and
I,
knobs
and
I've
said:
oh
yeah,
who
do
you
think
it
is
and
they've
told
me
and
it
turned
out.
It
wasn't
in
my
mind
who
I
was
thinking
about,
but
then
I
knew
that
that
person
was
a
rat
too.
So
so
it's
been
interesting,
but
generally
I,
don't
I,
haven't
written
about
specific
one
person.
I
might
take
different
things.
B
I've
had
seen
happened
with
different
people
and
make
an
amalgam
basically
because
I'm
not
trying
to
do
an
expose
of
people
in
broadcast
news
really,
and
while
I
was
at
CBS
I
wanted
people
to
still
talk
to
me
in
the
hallway
and
not
you
know
and
not
be
afraid
that
they
couldn't
talk
to
me
because
it
would
end
up
in
a
book.
So
there.
A
B
You
know
I,
definitely
not
hard-boiled,
but
they're,
not
it's!
This
term
cozies.
Have
you
heard
of
that
term.
Cozy
mysteries,
I
hate
that
term
and
I.
Don't
I
know
that
this
must
be
the
wedding
cake,
mysteries,
they'll,
say
our
cozies,
because
that
means
basically
that
someone
that
is
not
a
professional
is
solving
a
mystery.
B
So
the
key
news
books
wouldn't
be
considered
cozies,
because
the
people
are
journalists,
they're,
going
out
and
covering
stories,
there's
part
of
their
jobs,
they're
getting
involved
in
in
mysteries,
but
the
cozy
of
a
girl
making
wedding
cakes
and
getting
involved
in
mysteries.
That
would
be
considered
a
cozy.
It
so
diminishes
I
think
the
time
the
effort,
the
thought
that
you've
put
into
it
to
just
call
it
a
cozy
is
I
I
hate
that
term.
But
I
know
that
if
you
you
know,
went
online,
they
would
call
it
a
cozy.
Okay,.
B
Fear,
it's
definitely
fear.
I've
signed
a
contract,
there's
a
date
upon
which
the
manuscript
is
do
if
I
don't
hand
it
in
I,
mean
they'll.
Give
me
a
couple
of
weeks
or
something,
but
basically
they've
made
a
publishing
plan.
They
expect
that
book
done
too,
because
they're
planning
to
put
it
out
six
or
nine
months
later,
and
so,
if
you
don't
deliver,
they
technically
can
say
you're,
not
you
didn't
fulfill
the
contract
and
you
don't
get
paid.
So
I
would
think
that's
the
main
thing
to
writer's
block,
because
honestly
we
all
have
jobs.
B
B
There
are
days
when
I
sit
at
the
computer
and
I
don't
really
get
anything
written,
but
that's
not
because
I'm
blocked
it's
because
I
it
hasn't
come
out
yet,
but
I.
Think
of
writing.
As
a
muscle
and
sitting
there
every
day,
your
brain
starts
just
getting
used
to
the
fact
that
if
it's
it's
that
their
computer,
it's
supposed
to
come
up
with
something,
and
it
does
it's
almost
like
it's
like
an
instinct
or
a
learned,
behavior
and
so
I
I,
don't
get
writer's
block.
A
B
Well,
naturally,
I'm
thinking
of
something
now
that
I'm
going
to
Kentucky
today's
Monday
I'm,
going
to
Kentucky
on
Friday
for
a
few
days
to
do
some
research
I
have
some
an
idea
for
something
that
I
want
to
do.
That's
neither
key
news
nor
wedding,
cake
and
I'll,
see
after
I
go
there.
If
it's
what
I
can't
really
talk
about
it,
but
but
I
would
like
to
whisper
it
in
my
I.
B
Don't
do
I
know
you
I,
not
gonna
trust
you,
but
I
would
like
to
do
something
different,
something
maybe
with
a
little
bit
more
to
it
in
terms
of
maybe
something
a
little
more
lasting
I'm,
not
sure
not
that
I
do
love
my
stories
and
I'm,
not
diminishing
them,
but
I.
Think
you
get
to
a
certain
point
that
will
you
feel
like
how
long
am
I
going
to
be
around
and
what
do
I
want
to
leave
behind
and
I.
Have
this
one
idea:
that's
non
not
like
these
other
books
and
I
want
to
see.