Donalee's mother knew she was going to be a writer in grade two. When asked to write a sentence using a specific word, like “tree” or “house” and provide one line for each sentence, one line, apparently, would not do. Donalee's first sentence ran off the line, down the margin, along the bottom of the page, and over onto the next page. A story, after all, is as long as a story needs to be.

 

As a communications professional, Donalee worked with words to shape messages for clients, wonderful people doing important work that matters. But it was their work, and ultimately their words. Today, Donalee and I talk about her words in her her debut mystery novel, Hung Out to Die, a Riel Brava mystery.

Donalee Moulton

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