As a fledging writer I wrote by the seat of my pants. A pantser. Every night before bed, I would handwrite a few pages in a notebook, a love story set in the far future where we’d messed up Earth so badly it had become a conservation zone. From what I’ve found, the term pantser…

I visualize my mystery series as on TV season. Recently, I completed the third bookin my Cassandra Sato academic mystery series and gained a better understanding of how each book fits into the whole. While the main character will be very different at the end of the series than she was on page one, in…