Merit Badge Murder on Sale March 28-April 3!
Thank you so much for hosting me today, Meredith! My name is Leslie Langtry and I'm the author of the Bombay Family of Assassin Series and most recently, Merry Wrath Mysteries. I've been writing contemporary, humorous cozy mysteries for ten years now. I came to writing later in life than most (because I'm kind of lazy). I'd been writing since the 2nd grade, but didn't actually attempt a book until I was 38. And I didn't sell a book until I was 40 - and even that was my fourth novel (the first three will never, ever see the light of day because they are AWFUL – I should probably destroy those disks if I can find them). My first book was 'SCUSE ME WHILE I KILL THIS GUY, a mystery about Gin Bombay - who's family business has been assassination (of baddies only) since 2000 BCE. Even that character was older - a widowed mom in her late 30's. I liked writing a heroine that age, because Chick Lit was huge then and most characters were in their 2