Shell McMillan is visiting Ascroft, eh? to tell us about A Blue Ribbon Murder, the latest novel in the Urban Tails Pet Shop mystery series.
Welcome, Shell. Let’s get started, shall we?
Tell us about the novel that you live inside. Is it part of a series? If so, please tell us about the series too.
A Blue Ribbon Murder. It is the last entry in the Urban Tails Pet Shop Mysteries, which centered around me, an ex-actress who returned to my hometown of Fox Hollow CT after my spy series was cancelled. Along the way I find a lot of dead bodies!
Does the writer control what happens in the story or do you get a say too? Oh I definitely get a say. I have heard the writer say many times she’s going in one direction and then gets pulled into another J
How did you evolve as the main character? Unless you count the cats, I have always been the main character.
Do you have any other characters you like sharing the story with? If so, why are you partial to them? I enjoy sharing the limelight with the cats and also with my former co-star Gary. He turned out to be a pretty good sleuth himself!
What’s the place like where you find yourself in this story? The Pet Show is a place that I’d definitely revisit again – only minus the dead body.
Is there anything else you’d like to tell readers about you and the book? We are grateful to all the loyal readers who have supported me and company over the years and who knows. Someday we may meet again.
Thank you for answering my questions, Shell, and good luck to you and your author, T C LoTempio, with A Blue Ribbon Murder, the latest book in the Urban Tails Pet Shop mystery series.
Readers can learn more about Shell and her author, T C LoTempio by visiting the author’s website and blog, and her Facebook page. You can also follow her on Twitter/X.
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About T C LoTempio: While Toni Lotempio does not commit – or solve – murders in real life, she has no trouble doing it on paper. Her lifelong love of mysteries began early on when she was introduced to her first Nancy Drew mystery at age 10 – The Secret in the Old Attic. She and her cat pen the Nick and Nora mystery series originally from Berkley Prime Crime and now with Beyond the Page Publishing. They also write the Pet Shop Series and the Tiffany Austin Food Blogger series and brand new Cozy Bookshop Mysteries!
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