I’d like to welcome author Kat Jorgensen to the blog today for #ThisorThatThursday!

Things you need for your writing sessions: Absolute quiet! My laptop. And my mystery wheel for plotting and keeping me on track.

Things that hamper your writing: Noise. My sweet cats tussling and running through the house chasing one another. My mind when it’s working overtime and too busy. Hunger or thirst.

Things you love about writing: The satisfaction of creating. Getting to know my characters. And typing “the end.”

Things you hate about writing: Writer’s block. The blank page – especially when starting a new project. When your characters don’t follow the plot and go rogue on you.

Words that describe you: Kind, loyal, trustworthy, responsible, smart, good sense of humor.

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Somewhat disorganized. Overweight (yuck), and out of shape.

Favorite music or song: Classic rock and alternative music.

Music that drives you crazy: I like just about all music, but rap and opera are my least favorites.

Something you’re really good at: Knitting. I’d say I was an advanced knitter.

Something you’re really bad at: Staying on budget sometimes and resisting a really good sale.

Things you’d walk a mile for: Family or friends if they needed me.

Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Arguments or loud voices. I love a peaceful and tranquil environment.

Things you always put in your books: Cats, especially a black or tuxedo cat. And some levity or humor. Things you never put in your books: Gratuitous violence or abuse of any sort.

Favorite books (or genre): Mysteries, Thrillers. General fiction.

Books you wouldn’t buy: Book about vampires or anything where animals are abused or killed off

People you’d like to invite to dinner (living): Friends and family – they make the best guests.

People you’d cancel dinner on: Politicians!

Things that make you happy: Spending time with the people I love. Sunny days and blue skies. The beach. Things that drive you crazy: Taxes.

Most embarrassing moment: I have so many to choose from. But one sticks out in a long line of embarrassing moments. The afternoon I closed on a house. I was downtown. It was raining. Hard. I slipped and fell crossing 9th and Main Streets wearing a white dress and carrying a congratulatory bottle of wine. Landed in the gutter with yucky water all over my dress and legs. Didn’t break the bottle of wine. But I couldn’t get up because I was laughing so hard due to a bad case of nervous laughter. A kind gentleman helped me to my feet. That memory is etched in my memory banks.

Proudest moment: Seeing my children succeed in life.

Best thing you’ve ever done: Fall in love and marry my second husband. He was a great guy and I’m so lucky to have had the years together with him. Sadly, he passed away in 2012 after a very brief illness. Biggest mistake: Marrying the first husband. It was a disastrous marriage, and we were both better off when we divorced.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: It doesn’t sound like a daring adventure, but it was. Going up in the St. Louis Arch. I’m very claustrophobic. My husband didn’t enjoy heights. He knew how much I wanted to go to the top of the Arch. While I was in the Ladies’ Room, he got our tickets and answered the questions about claustrophobia and heights. Without my knowledge. He told them we were fine with both! No, not so much. Those little pods to the top are tight, confined spaces. But I did it, and so did he. And we had a good time. But had I known ahead of time, how we’d have to travel to the top, I wouldn’t have done it.

Something you chickened out from doing: Skydiving.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: That I made then laugh and smile while reading my book.

The craziest thing a reader said to you: Why not write romances instead of killing off people in books? I enjoy my murder mysteries and they do have some romantic moments. But I am just not cut out to write straight romance. I’ll stick to mysteries.

About Kat:

A native of Richmond, Virginia, Kat still lives in River City. Her handsome black cats, Sam and Milo, amuse her and keep her company. You can reach Kat through her website at https://katjorgensenauthor.com.

Your Eight O’clock is Dead

Becca Reynolds is having a bad day. Her grandfather’s lecture (#405: Eat a Healthy Diet or Die Not Trying) makes her late for her job at Daley & Palmer, the psychiatric group where she works as office manager – her title not theirs. But she knows her day has taken a really bad turn when she finds the firm’s eight o’clock patient dead with Dr. Daley’s letter opener opening the patient instead of the mail.

With the fledgling firm in danger of an early demise, Becca appoints herself the unofficial investigator since the police seem to be looking in all the wrong places.

The case takes Becca from the sordid depths of the Russian mafia to the upscale West End of Richmond, Virginia (known locally as River City), and even to her own back yard. In the course of the investigation, she finds herself in hot water, hot danger, and with dreams of hot men.

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