Sudden Exposure (34 page)

Authors: Susan Dunlap

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BOOK: Sudden Exposure

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The Sisters-in-Crime presidents and former presidents—known as the Goddesses—always gather for a picture at conventions. One year, Dunlap had to miss the gathering. Her friends, knowing how much she wanted to be there, photoshopped her into the image.

Dunlap’s last typewriter, before she happily switched to writing on a computer. “Plotting is one of the aspects of writing I really like—everything’s new, all gates open, all roads wide,” she says. “But it involves a great deal of data with connections that are not always linear. On paper or white board or with notes taped on corkboard—I tried them all—it was cumbersome. Using the computer was magic.”

Acknowledgments

I am indebted to the Berkeley Police Department and particularly Sergeant Steve Odom, Brenda Logan, and all those who put on the Community/Police Awareness Academy, a fascinating class on how the police department works,

to Sergeant Kay Lantow, who is always there with help and answers,

to Officer Teri Rein, for sharing her patrol shift,

to Sergeant Mike Holland and Albany Officer Karan Alveraz, for always being willing to help,

and to Officer Abbie Cohen, for her generosity, her insight, and her friendship from beginning to end.

To Ron Wright, thanks for his tales of chess.

When writing I am reminded again what a wonderful resource our public libraries are. I have relied on the research librarians at the Berkeley Main Library, and am grateful to Oakland librarian Barbara Bibel for her special efforts.

And to my superb editor, Jackie Cantor, a writer’s dream.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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