That Darn Dog
Flash and Cisco, the little rascals When I started the Raine Stockton Dog Mystery Series an embarrassing number of years ago, it was because I loved dog mysteries, but no one was writing about actual dogs. In keeping with the standards of the cozy mystery genre (and, of course, if a book features a woman and a dog it must be a cozy, right?) they weren't writing about actual people either, but that's another story. I wanted to write-- and read-- books about the relationship between real dogs and real people; thus Raine and Cisco were born. I had no idea what I was getting into. I am jealous of writers who only write mysteries. As Ginger Rogers famously said to Fred Astaire (or not), "Oh, yeah? Try doing that backwards and in heels!". I want to say to writers of mysteries everywhere, "Oh, yeah? Try writing that with a dog!" Writing mysteries is hard. Writing dog mysteries, if you do...