A Few Dead Men
A Few Dead Men – a Chick Dick Mystery launches on March 1st!
People often ask what inspires an author to write a book. In the case of A Few Dead Men - a Chick Dick Mystery, inspiration was easy.
I used my youngest daughter's disastrous dating history.
The 'dead men' in the novel are composites of every boyfriend and/or bad date she's ever had. Believe me, there was lots of material to choose from. There's the commitment-phobe, the deadbeat who lives in his mother's basement, the married man who forgets to mention his non-single status and the guy who whips out a calculator at dinner so he can figure out how to split the bill, including tax and tip, even though he issued the dinner invitation.
I could have mentioned her first dates with the guy who got so hammered he fell out of his chair, or the guy who boasted that he had a big 'package', but hey, I didn't have room for all those characters. I didn't want to go over 100,000 words.
I also had a little help from He's Just Not That Into You, the best-selling book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo (much better than the movie of the same name, in my opinion). Some of the scenarios in there were jaw-dropping. Apparently men will do just about anything to avoid telling a girl the truth about their feelings and what they want out of a relationship.
It makes a person wonder who's raising these men. And who's raising these women to put up with these men?
These are some of the central questions in A Few Dead Men, along with a mystery (of course) since I'm all about mysteries.
A Few Dead Men - a Chick Dick Mystery is available March 1st at the following online retailers:
Smashwords
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Chapters/Indigo/Kobo
(Purchase links to follow)
Author Bio
Nancy Lauzon worked nine years on a hospital ward as a cardiac nurse before the night shifts turned her into a zombie. She got a day job in health promotion and began to write health-related articles for magazines and newsletters.
Life threw out a few curve balls, and to relieve the stress, she began to write fiction part-time. Five years later she sold two different manuscripts to two separate small-press publishers, using a pseudonym. She retired from nursing in 2003 and began to write full-time.
She is now the author of four Chick Dick Mystery novels, inspired by her early love of Nancy Drew Mysteries.
Nancy lives in Ottawa, Canada.
Visit her website http://chickdickmysteries.com
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Coming soon to Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Chapters/Indigo.
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Comments
Best of luck with your book,
Cheryl
Nancy