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With the line, “I know a little something about the blues,” Nora Watts burst out of my imagination and onto the page.
Nora: a woman with a terrifying past, a complicated identity, and an artist’s soul. A former blues singer whom trouble seems to follow around like the horny stray dog that she’d picked up along the way. What other music could capture a woman like that? What better character to write about for my first novel?...