This is one of my favorite covers. It is one of the earliest, too, back before my cover artist and I weren’t as attuned as we are now. We went through many different concepts before this one. And I’ve stayed with the same company ever since–Streetlight Graphics.

Truepenny has a kernel of true story to it, unlike most of my quirky stories. It’s cute seeing a mouse in your house darting from a corner and then disappearing somewhere. It’s not cute catching mouse after mouse after mouse in mousetraps. Especially the break- their- necks type of mouse traps. We finally decided to go for the sticky trap. And that was where the basis of this story originated. The mouse we caught on our first sticky trap was not dead. Just resoundingly stuck in the glue.

What happens in the story about that particular sticky trap is what happened in real life.

Truepenny the story came about because my sister Roxanne asked me to write something about this mouse. It’s not a children’s story, although the animals talk. And it’s a story I’m very proud of.

You can read it here http://amzn.com/B007181Y0Y or here http://amzn.com/B00HQ0PH1O or you can listen to it here http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Twisted-Rixter-Audiobook/B01MDNU438

WHAT I’VE READ SINCE LAST POST: The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas. The Perilous Sea by Sherry Thomas.