It is only natural that I would one day wind up in the literary field. I taught the art of writing and understanding literature for years as an English teacher at St. John High School, Lancaster High School, and Ennis High School as well as Business Communications at Navarro College. When I retired, I turned my attention to working with my husband to create and build Venture Galleries, a website connecting authors and readers. Our current website, CalebandLindaPirtle.com is also a literary Website devoted to connecting readers with today’s growing population of authors throughout the world. I have served as editor for some great books presently in the marketplace, and three years ago I entered the field as an author myself. It was a perfect transition. I have long read and reviewed mysteries, and I found myself infatuated with the kinds of cozy hometown mysteries produced by Agatha Christie. I am fascinated with dastardly murder mysteries solved by the lady next door who relies on intuition, instinct, and deductive reasoning. I decided to write a cozy mystery series - The Games We Play -- which focuses on how people bent on evil can ruin an innocent, fun game. There of three books in my series: The Mah Jongg Murders, Deadly Dominoes, and Tarot Terrors. Book Four, Scrabbled Secrets, is in progress.