A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.

These writers' sleuths are engaged in an important endeavor. When they came out in the early 1980s, it was at a point of conjunction of feminism when readers were hungry for this kind of role model.

Women mystery writers took a genre that before that had been exclusively male and transformed it. The tradition of the male private eye goes all the way back in literature to the lone man on the edge of society with a moral conscience, saving people's lives. In 1977 Marcia Muller wrote the first female sleuth who was a hard-core professional crime solver.

Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers?

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.