When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with everything. John Cena
I've explained how "Amy3" - A Matter of Principle - came to be in other posts and blogs. In announcing here that the Kindle version is available for purchase, let's chat. If you buy it, then read it (one does not necessarily follow the other) I'd be interested in knowing what you think I meant by this story.
Ultimately, this sort of book is what happens when an author adores his character, and wants to know that they will be fine in his absence. Go ahead, read that again. I'll be right here.
Back? Given what you've read here recently, you might conclude I'm wrapping up my writing career in anticipation of...no longer writing. Let's get that out of the way. No.
Writing is therapeutic. It's energizing. Writing cops keeps me in touch with a past I cherish, a present in which I am intensely interested and with friends I admire. I'm going to keep writing.
But, eventually a character deserves a long and happy life in peace. How Amy gets there was interesting to write, and expresses one way out of the maelstrom. Along the way, you get to see Amy the hero. Amy the fighter. Amy the wife, the mom, the friend.
Amy Painter was the first character I created more than twenty years ago, when I began to explore fiction writing as a job. Much of what I hoped to say about women in policing I've said through her. In making her real I've had a ton of help. I've noted those folks over the years, and will never forget the role they played in making me a writer.
I hope you like A Matter of Principle. I do.
