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I started my career in traditional publishing when “chick lit” was the trend du jour. And my first novel, Bulletproof Mascara, got pitched as “chick lit mystery,” which came as a surprise to me since I had not realized I was writing either. In my head, mysteries involved a dead body and probably a lot of British people. (Try not to laugh at me too hard. I was in my twenties.) I thought I was writing an adventure-romance about what would happen if James Bond were a twenty-something girl… […]
