Mary Anna Evans - Findings

It was another Sunday author event at Goerings, one of Gainesville's independent bookstores, and I was there listening to Mary Anna Evans. 

Mary Anna Evans writes, mostly, Florida-placed mysteries, her heroine is an archaeologist so there's always a deep history component to the plot, and she never shies away from the modern tensions between the races, the sexes, and government agencies.  This is my sort of read. And she talked about how to do research, but not clobber your readers with it. ("Make every scene do more than one thing.") And she talked about her beginnings as a writer.  I was so happy every second I was there. 

We should thank, all the time, over and over, our local, independent bookstores for existing.  As an ex-bookstore woman, I know the best way to do this is to spend money in them. Yes, I bought two magazines and Mary Anna Evan's new book, Findings, while I was there.