Other things about me:
1. I love reading mysteries but can't do horror (they give me nightmares).
2. My writing ideas are like a breeze in the brain. Fleeting unless I pay
attention, then the synapses fire along that new path.
3. My ideas are like a butterfly flickering in and out of my awareness.
4. Doubts are self-made saboteurs, terrorists.
5. We lost Hunter, our Havana Brown feline after 20 years. We met him six
months after my husband, Bob, and I met.
6. Two new cats entered out life New Year's, 2008. Detective Tucker (black,
male) and Jemma Kitty (gray, female) are brother and sister and were adopted together.
7. DT & JK appear in my second mystery, Perfect for Framing. I couldn't help it, cats rule in my house.
8. My dad, Lyle Bishop, took up downhill skiing at 63 and became a pro ski
patroller for decades. I started skiing at 35. I don't know how he managed it.
9. My mom, Pearle Munn Bishop, finished her first novel in late 2007
at the age of 87. Cleo's Oak may be out soon.
10. I never made it to 5' 3".
11. I’ve made three holes-in-one, all at Roan Valley golf course, over
the line in Mountain City, Tennessee. The course has been sold but I have bragging rights forever.
12. I was once a Soap Box Derby Princess and a Junior High cheerleader, both
when Dad was stationed in Japan at Tachikowa Air Force Base.
13. When I worked as a secretary at Coastal Carolina Community College in
Jacksonville, NC, I also went to all the basketball games and recorded the statistics of each player. I rode on the team bus
to the away games.
14. I babysat a friend’s boa constrictor and it disappeared. I found
it when I started the dryer and heard a bump. It was not hurt.
15. I was kicked out of Brownies for painting a chair red instead of blue.
16. Bob & I honeymooned at a dude ranch which I mentioned in Murder
at Blue Falls. All kinds of saddle sores appeared.
17. I worked as a Census taker in 2000 so I could afford to take my first
cruise with a friend, Kim Stanford.
18. My 13th cruise was to Alaska in May 2008. My cruising buddy
is now my husband.
19. I went to a practice round for the Masters in the 70s and was able to
return twice in recent years thanks to my favorite real estate agent, Dan Norman of Martin Real Estate, Boone, NC. He cooks
the best Boston butts on his outdoor cooker. Wonderful slow cooked pork with his secret, homemade sauce.
20. Against odds, I started High Country Writers, a group which had only five
members in 1996 and now regularly has over sixty members. Because the mountains are sparsely populated, they said it wouldn’t
succeed..
21. The bug museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado and the reptile study site
in Kentucky are two of my favorite places to visit.
22. My eyes pop open between five and six in the morning, regardless of when
I go to bed.
23. My mom was born the same year as the first commercial radio station went
on the air, 1920.
24. East Carolina University selected me as one of 100 Incredible ECU Women in
2007 for literature and leadership. Great honor!
25. I attended 1st grade in England, 2nd & 3rd
in Germany, 4th & 5th in Missouri, 6-9 in Japan, 10 & 11 in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and 12th
in Burns Flat, Oklahoma. I loved being an Air Force Brat.
