G. M. Malliet
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G. M. Malliet

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I come from a family of secrets. When I was ten years old I learned that the man I thought was a distant cousin was in fact my half-brother. Later I learned I also had a half-sister. Whether this sort of thing led to my becoming a crime writer, I can't say, but it probably helped. Every single life decision I’ve made has been in the furtherance of the novels I longed to write. I suppose I had some hero-worship of authors going on as I was growing up. I couldn’t think of a more glamorous occupation. I would like to thank the interviewer who had me growing up in Alaska in a log cabin, not unlike Abe Lincoln, but that is not strictly true. I did live in a log cabin as a small child for about a year until it burned down and my parents were forced to give up living in the wild. They built that cabin themselves and I know the loss was heartbreaking. From my official writer bio: Agatha Award-winning G.M. Malliet is the acclaimed author of three traditional mystery series and a standalone novel. The first entry in the DCI St. Just series, Death of a Cozy Writer, won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for numerous awards, including the Macavity and Anthony. The Rev. Max Tudor series has been nominated for many awards as have several of her short stories collected in anthologies and appearing in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and The Strand. She was a graduate student at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford and now lives on the East Coast of the US with her husband. From an intro to an interview, a longer bio: G.M. Malliet started writing about the time she learned how to read. She published a local, hand-illustrated newsletter with a friend in first grade. She thinks even her mother did not save a copy of The Golly Trolley. In college she studied journalism, but always with a view to being published in book form. Besides, she quickly realized the cut-and-thrust of daily news was not for her, despite her early training with the Trolley. She worked for advertising and marketing departments in a few major corporations, with PBS being her favorite. Her fascination with the mystery genre was sparked by her sister, who worked as a nurse on the night shift and read Agatha Christie to stay awake. She read so many truly bad books she began to believe she might do better. She lived in England for five years for graduate study, and read all the Robert Barnard books, which – along with Agatha Christie – greatly influenced her writing. Her first full-length mystery was Death of a Cozy Writer, which won the Agatha Award for best first novel. She came to regret that title because it suggests something cozier than the traditional puzzle mysteries she writes. Two dozen books later, she looks back with astonishment on what she's been able to do in what started as a part-time career. She plans to continue writing until she's 100 years old when she may start to think about retiring. She and her husband live in northern Virginia but travel often to Europe, the setting for most of her writing. She most of all wants to live in Bath or Cornwall, England. Or in a beautifully renovated medieval monastery along the Thames with a fireplace in the library and an enormous dining area. Or in Provence. Or Italy. Or Edinburgh. Lots of places, really. The list keeps growing.
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