My protagonist Avery Ayers is feisty, brave, and headstrong, so you know she’ll find a way to investigate this discovery, just as she’ll also get herself out of whatever awful incident ensues in the process. Nancy Drew wasn’t on my mind, but once I’d typed the words, I couldn’t take them back. In the upcoming Peril At Pennington Manor, I swear I was not even thinking about Nancy Drew stumbling upon the door to a secret passageway that leads elsewhere when I penned Avery Ayers accidentally triggering a tiny latch to a hidden staircase. When I wrote my first manuscript, and the next, and the eventual manuscript that would finally be my debut novel, I didn’t realize I was writing cozy mysteries until it was pointed out to me. On the flipside, throw a damsel-in-distress-type protagonist at me and it’s a guaranteed DNF, or worse yet, one of those books I gripe about to my reader friends in case they also prefer reading women who save themselves. Looking back, there’s one constant through all my favorite books versus the ones I never finished or trudged through, irritated the entire time: I love an ass-kicking main character, and if she’s female, even better. Nancy Drew paved the way for the hundreds of mystery novels I read following hers.
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