This is a very unique house. Somebody has to really understand it, really get it.

Pawling is the next Bedford. That's what all the realtors are saying.

We're definitely doing another one. We just have to sell this one first.

The seller said that you can be pretty sure that the property was a very prosperous farm to have such a great barn there. The fact that the posts are oak and the rest is white pine is also very unusual and points to a wealthy landowner.

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.