Laura Joh Rowland is the well known author of a bestselling series featuring a samurai detective in 17th C Japan. (I know! I asked myself why I wasn’t reading this series too.) But her creative juices started wandering after the eleventh Sano Ichiro book. Rowland decided to switch time periods and locales and write a book about Charlotte Bronte in the 19th C called The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte. And how was Rowland rewarded for taking a chance with her career? You’ll have to read the story to find out.
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I’m not a gambler. I avoid lotteries, casinos, and horse races. But I have staked my fortune in one of the world’s biggest crapshoots: publishing.
1992. Having decided to be an author, I have spent three years writing two mystery novels. Neither has sold. For some reason–faith, stubbornness, or a one track mind?–this has not stopped me from writing a third. My third mystery features a character and a setting (a samurai detective in 17th c. Japan) that appear nowhere else …
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