on Career Authors:

When my agent was marketing A Spell of Murder, the first of my “Witch Cats of Cambridge” cozy series, we received an interesting query: Would I consider recasting the book, which is narrated by a cat, so that at least 80% of it was narrated by a human?

The query came from a reputable publisher, and it was at that point as close as we’d come to selling the series. (The series is now with Polis, and the fourth book, To Conjure a Killer, comes out Nov. 14.) My agent at the time urged me to consider it seriously. I did – and that query made me ask myself a vital question: Who was at the center of my story?