A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in June and August of that year. Without meaning to I painted myself into a corner. The other issue was the aging process. I did not want my main character to age one year for every book so I slowed the whole process down. This way I could get through all 26 letters of the alphabet without making her 109 years old in 2015. I might end the series in either 1990 or on New Years Eve 1989.
Sue GraftonYou canโt save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives donโt appreciate your interfering with the drama theyโve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they donโt want to change.
Sue GraftonThe memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.
Sue GraftonYou kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
Sue GraftonGhosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.
Sue Grafton