Look and Listen

Biography

Carol A Guy is a former newspaper reporter whose true crime book, A Picture Perfect Kid, was a 2004 EPPIE Award finalist. She is the co-author of several cozy mysteries, authored two paranormal mystery series and a suspense novel. Two of her paranormal mysteries, Night of the Canid and Shadows in the Night are ARE Bestsellers. “I’ve always loved mysteries and books about the paranormal, so I guess it was inevitable that I would combine the two eventually.” Carol makes her home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Books by Carol A. Guy: A Picture Perfect Kid, Zumaya Publications (True Crime) Sins of the Past, PA (Suspense Novel) Spirit Lake, Devine Destinies (Paranormal Mystery/Romance Novel) Echoes of the Past, Devine Destinies Publishing (Paranormal Mystery/Romance Novel) Slay Bells Ring, Devine Destinies (Paranormal Mystery) House of Secrets, Devine Destinies (Paranormal Mystery) Night of the Canid, Devine Destinies (Paranormal Mystery)AN ARE BESTSELLER Shadows in the Night, Devine Destinies (Paranormal Mystery)AN ARE BESTSELLER Night Watchers, Devine Destinies (Paranormal Mystery) Dead of Night, Devine Destinies (Paranormal Mystery Books co-authored by Carol A. Guy: Murder at the Ice Cream Parlor, Mundania Press (Cozy Mystery Novel) Vengeance Can Wait, Mundania Press (Cozy Mystery Novel) Murder at the Loft, Newtown (Cozy Mystery Novel) Articles by Carol A. Guy: My Minister Kept Making Passes (pseudonym Joan Clayton), Ladies’ Home Journal, 1985 (co-authored) Interviewing the Interviewer, Secretary Magazine, 1996 How to Make an Initial Interview Work for You, Employment Times, 2003 How to Handle a Bad Review, Employment Times, 2004 Short Stories: Murder at the Church Social, The Fiction Primer, 1991 (co-authored) Photograph Called Tranquility Published by Tacenda Magazine, 2002

Inspiration

I grew up in a small town in Ohio. Our library started out as a little room on the back of a city building. My mother was an avid reader. She and I would walk to the library weekly. I credit her for instilling in me a love of reading. I wrote my first story when I was in high school, typing it on a portable typewriter my father bought me to use for homework. I read my first Agatha Christie novel in 1959. It was called Ordeal by Innocence. From that moment on I was hooked on mysteries. In the same year I read a novel by Paul Wellman called The Fiery Flower, which was a supernatural tale about a woman stranded on a remote island with two beings she comes to believe are gods. That introduced me to the paranormal genre. Now I write paranormal mysteries an cozies. I've also written a true crime book and suspense novel.