Author Spotlight: Jessica Conant-Park & Susan Conant
This one caught my attention when I was reading through RT. The “why” goes like this:
1. Thought the cover was cute. I’m a sucker for those things.
2. It got 4 1/2 Stars at RT.
3. There’s a romance, a killer and a mystery. The perfect trio for me.
4. I’m intrigued by the Berkley Prime Crime imprint. Don’t know why, but there’s no reason to hide the obsession.
5. The authors are mother and daughter. Okay…try to imagine that dynamic for a second. When I write I’m, shall we say, a tad bitchy. My mother, like all mothers, asks me what’s wrong when I’m bitchy. So, I have this vision of me grumbling over my keyboard, mom getting worried and asking what she can do to help and me going nuts because someone is talking to me while I’m trying to write. The likely outcome would be for me to threaten to throw her under a bus. Not because I mean it, mind you. No. Because I’m bitchy when I write. These women managed to make it work despite all that. Good for them.
That’s all good enough to grab me and get me to spend some cash.
March 24th, 2006 at 8:12 am
Helenkay, if you’re interested, I believe that PJ Tracy (suspense/mystery) is also a mother-daughter writing team.
And I’d do the same thing to my mom if we wrote together. It’s the stuff nightmares are made of. LOL.
March 24th, 2006 at 9:08 am
I’ve got this book on my shelf too. It just looked cute and I liked the idea of the mother-daughter writing team. Now I just need to actually read it.