Airplanes - Susanna Carr

As the title suggests in my newest Jenesi Ash release, MILE-HIGH MISTRESS is set on an airplane.

It's kind of strange that I wrote a story with that setting because I really don't like flying on planes. I don't have a fear of flying, but I dread the ordeal. The lines, the delays, the missed connections, the turbulence, the claustrophobia, the weirdo sitting next to you for the next couple of hours, the air sickness… what's not to hate?

There was one time I had to take a flight that lasted 36 hours (including two quick stopovers to change planes.) I swore then and there that I would never get back on a plane. But, of course I had to do it all over again because I wanted to get back home!

And this summer I have to take a plane to the RWA conference in San Francisco and to the Lori Foster/Dianne Castell Reader Writer Get Together in Ohio. I am really looking forward to both events, but I'm dreading those plane rides!

Any suggestions on how to make flight travel more comfortable?

Susanna

http://www.susannacarr.com/

Favorite Mysteries - Susanna Carr

Today my first Harlequin Spice Brief is released. "Anything You Want", written under my Jenesi Ash pen name, isn't a romance but an erotic mystery.

When I was growing up, I read the Nancy Drews, Trixie Beldens, and a few of the Encyclopedia Browns. I read my first "grown up" mystery when I was a freshman in high school. My mother was trying to lure me away from romance novels and bought me Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.

She thought the romantic setting of the story would appeal to me. I don't know why she was more comfortable with me reading about a gruesome death rather than reading about a loving couple finding happiness, but we won't go into that. The story interested me, and although her work lacked sexual tension and a romantic plot, I started adding an Agatha Christie book to my to-be-read pile.

I discovered that I prefer the detective short stories when I took Detective Fiction as one of my university courses. This class allowed me to read so many great short stories that started with a bang, cleverly and quickly presented all the facts, and then gave me a twist in the tail ending. I did a term paper on Agatha Christie's favorite detective, which was Harley Quinn, a mysterious, paranormal figure who starred in some of the most creative short stories she produced. And as much as I like Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, Harley Quinn is my favorite Agatha Christie detective, too.

Do you have a favorite mystery writer or favorite fictional detective?

Susanna

http://www.susannacarr.com/

http://www.jenesiash.com/