Top Ten Reasons to be a Mystery Writer

You have a reason other than parental burnout for locking yourself in your room where the kids can’t get at you.
It’s okay to eavesdrop on the conversations of others.
You can save by getting red pens by the gross.
Your name is on the spine of a book, and you didn’t have to take out a Sharpie pen and put it there.
Childhood trauma can end up as a profitable book.
In fact, no experience goes unused. All are grist for the mill.
Vacations are tax deductible research.
It’s okay to live in a fantasy world.
You get to hang out with writers, who are the coolest, nicest people in the world (most of them, anyway).
There is a free lunch, and after it people actually listen to you talk, which never happens in any other sphere of your life.

Lora Roberts