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Fran's Bio     

November, 2008 - As we come to the end of 2008,  my first thought is to thank the readers.  It's been a great year with two books released by Berkley.  My health is better and I've met many fantastic people during book signings and travels.  I hope the holidays are wonderful for every one of you!

January, 2009 -  Thanks to all you fantastic readers who 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. 

July, 2010 - At last!  The fourth Callie Parrish book, formerly entitled

Basket Casket will be released the end of this year with its original title

                                       Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

                                                         There's

                           A Body in the Car

 

Fran's Bio     

                              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

placed first in photography competitions, 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 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!