Hi Sara! Thanks so much for befriending me. I'm looking forward to perusing your site.

I'm happy to accept the invitation Sarah. I'm going to be on the lookout for Allie Fortune, too... Really like the idea of a female PI in postwar New York... it's a heady mix: Raymond Chandler meets Dawn Powell.

Thanks for the invite, Sara. I look forward to reading your work.

Sarah

Sara,

The talent on this site is so amazing. I am truly in the world of some really wonderful writers. Thanks for the invite.

Thanks for the invitation, Sara. Happy to be your friend!

Thanks for the invite and if you are ever in the Chicago area the first weekend in Feb check out our Love Is Murder conference (www.loveismurder.net). Barry Eisler is a past featured author and will be again in 2008. We have a great time at this conference. My husband - Todd A. Stone - is also the Novelist's Boot Camp guy . We visit Wiarton, Canada every summer and love it. Hope to see you at Love Is Murder sometime. Take care.

Hi! Allie Fortune sounds like great fun. I don't recall when in the series (which ran from 1939-1972!) but Rex Stout had a female PI Dol Bonner who once in a while crossed Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin's paths, and who got one or two books of her own. Anyway, thanks for the ad.

Hi, Sara. Thanks for the friendship! Blessings--Laura

Friday nights, 1977. A glass of iced tea, a bag of roasted sunflower seeds, and the Rockford Files. Life was good.
Thanks for the add, Sara. I like your taste.
p.s. In the cheap shameless plug department, my next novel, Blood Poison, comes out Sept. 4.

HI friend. Thanks for the invite.

Hey Sara---Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, you walk into mine.

Welcome!

I see you like the classics...me too. Thanks for the invite

Hi, Sara. I like your line-up of TV and movie favorites, especially the Rockford Files, which never seem to get old. Thanks for the invitation.

Hi Sara! Thanks for the invitation. Glad you recovered from your accident. I'm partial to Vespas myself...

Looks like we have similar tastes. My series of cozy mysteries doesn't have a bone fide PI, but a club of elderly women who keep running into crimes they try to solve. Sometimes the results are dire. I myself, besides writing about crime, am a retired criminal (no arrests, no convictions). Visit my web space www.hu.mtu.edu/~hlsachs where you can listen to two of my sgtories thast werebroadcast on the BBC World Service, a market I heartily recommend to all who can write a 13 minute story with a punch. he BBC pays better than those cheap literary magazines.

Hello, Sara. That's great that you've picked 1947 to write about. I'm currently working on something set in 1951 in L.A. Interesting time period.

Hi Sara - a fellow Canuck! Which end of the country are you in? I see you've set your book in New York - any reason for choosing this locale?
Brenda

Hey, Sara! Thanks for the invite. Cheers-- Duane.

Sarah, Allie sounds intriguing. The main character in my upcoming mystery series is named Allie, too. Very different, though. She's a reluctant investigative reporter who feels her way through crimes dumped in her lap by friends. I look forward to reading about your Allie.

Best wishes!