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What's Your Risk?

1/5/2018

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     Nobody relishes a risk, but Margaret Coel dared to take one.     She spent five years working on a manuscript she didn’t know whether she could get published. “And if I did get it published, whether anyone would read it,” she says.
     
But she was obsessed with Arapaho Chief Niwot and the slaughter of his people at the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado in 1864.
     
In her thirties with young children, Margaret already had a successful career as a journalist. She didn’t have to take this gamble. But the story wouldn’t let her go. So family vacations became trips to forts, battlegrounds, and trading sites.
     
Finally in her early forties, Margaret published Chief Left Hand and launched into a new career as novelist/historian.     She’s continued taking risks as she’s written and contributed to more than twenty-five books that combine history and mystery, including her New York Times bestselling Wind River Series. She’s won enough writing awards to collapse the wall of her study. And now at age eighty, she’s released the novella Man Found Dead in Park.
     
I studied Margaret’s writing as I worked on my novel, so it was my pleasure to dine with her and meet the woman behind the stories.
     
What’s she like? About the nicest person you could meet. So safe you’d never suspect the intrigues that spring from her mind as she wrestles with how the past intersects with the present.
     
It all started with a risk that turned into a lifetime adventure. Which makes me wonder whether I’m willing to open the door to whatever is knocking for me.
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What about you?

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    It was a dark - but not stormy - night when I met mystery writer Margaret Coel for dinner. She took a copy of my novel, The Wooden Indian Resurrection. I already had a copy of her Blood Memory.

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1/21/2018 01:02:30 am

Margaret Coel lives a very successful career as a journalist. I want to learn about her and you shared it is good for me. Its review really inspires me.

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1/23/2018 04:10:59 pm

She is a remarkable person. Thank you for your comment!

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