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January, 2008 - Update - Thanks to all you fantastic readers who have been read Callie's first mystery!  I love every one of you!

I thought I'd bring you up-to-date on why several signings were cancelled or postponed.  In early October, just about the time A Tisket, a Tasket, a Fancy Stolen Casket was released, I was diagnosed with a cardiac condition.  I call it my "broken heart."  Thanks to fine cardiologists and cardiac surgeons, I am doing much, much better now and have resumed normal activities. 

 

2007                                I  Googled  myself

When my webmaster told me to write a bio, I looked to see what readers could already learn from the Internet.  According to Google, Fran Rizer:

  • published articles in many magazines, including Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Now

  • won awards in photography, including photo-essay Sequence of a Smile

  • co-authored scientific nature studies for Clemson University

  • won several fiction and poetry writing contests including Augusta Arts Council

  • wrote songs that were published, recorded, and received radio airplay, but no hits yet

  • signed a three-book contract with Berkley Prime Crime in 2006 for the Callie Parrish Mystery Series; the first one being A Tisket, A Tasket, A Fancy Stolen Casket which was released October 2, 2007

  • graduated from high school in 1942 and died about ten years ago

Oops!  That last one was a different Fran Rizer. 

To paraphrase Mark Twain, “The rumors of my death were greatly exaggerated.”  The first six do refer to me, the Fran Rizer who writes Callie Parrish mysteries.  Google also lists places to buy my books and several places that authors I met in New York at the 2007 Mystery Writers of America Edgars Awards have been kind enough to write about me.

What else would you like to know?  I was born in South Carolina on December twelfth and stayed here.  Callie Parrish came to life after I retired from twenty-five years' teaching in public schools.  My family includes my mother, two sons, and one grandson, who also loves to write.

To learn more, e-mail me (See bottom of home page for instructions.)   I'll answer most questions including the color du jour of Callie's or my hair or Callie's age, but not mine.  

                                                         It's  fun  to  be Googlable!