This New Mountain - Softcover

Macabe, Cate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937240088 ISBN 13: 9781937240080

Publisher: Casa de Snapdragon LLC, 2012

Like most private investigators AJ Jackson has more than one foot in the fire to make ends meet – driving a tow truck and serving legal documents for local law firms. But not every PI is a mother of four, a grandmother of ten, an ex-gun dealer and former mental patient, or a descendant of a great Choctaw chief. This is a memoir of Vinnie Ann "AJ" Jackson, a country girl with a go-to-hell attitude who must face her fears in order to keep her sanity and make a future for herself.

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About the Author:

Cate Macabe spent a great deal of her childhood escaping into other worlds. She began to think of herself as a writer after creating her first coherent story at the age of ten, a piece about a spider from the spider's point of view. At that time, she didn't consider making a living as a writer. She wrote because it took her away to places and times not her own, the same reason she read every book in her parent's house. Later, after serving six years in the military, raising four children, and studying computer programming and accounting, she realized writing was actually what she should do with her life and not the dozen other things she had tried. While working as a legal secretary in an Albuquerque law firm, Cate spent most lunch hours writing and editing her novels in progress. Every time AJ Jackson came in to do business, the ordinary, routine workings of the law office were pleasantly disrupted by the telling of the latest adventures of a repo-woman/process server/private eye. Whether this petite, feisty redhead recounted the tale of a snarling dog intent on making her a mid-morning snack or the contortions she had gone through to find someone intent on not being found, her stories were made even more remarkable by the fact they were all real experiences. A conversation about how AJ's adventures would make a great book led Kate and AJ on a twelve-year writing journey that culminated in the publication of This New Mountain. Cate Macabe is on the board of directors of SouthWest Writers and is the editor of the organization's newsletter, the Southwest Sage. She lives with her husband near the foothills of the Sandia 'Watermelon' Mountains in Albuquerque, New Mexico - and still enjoys reading every book in the house and escaping into other worlds.

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