ROSEMARY AND LARRY MILD, cheerful partners in crime, coauthor mystery, suspense, and fantasy fiction. New in 2019: Copper and Goldie, 13 Tails of Mystery and Suspense in Hawaii—featuring a disabled ex-cop and his sidekick golden retriever (with a dollop of Doberman). Their popular novels, Cry Ohana, Adventure and Suspense in Hawaii, and its sequel, Honolulu Heat, vibrate with island color, local customs, and exquisite scenery. Also by the Milds: The Paco and Molly Murder Mysteries: Locks and Cream Cheese, Hot Grudge Sunday, and Boston Scream Pie. And the Dan and Rivka Sherman Mysteries: Death Goes Postal, Death Takes A Mistress, and Death Steals A Holy Book. Plus: Unto the Third Generation, A Novella of the Future, and three collections of wickedly entertaining mystery short stories—Murder Fantasy and Weird tales; The Misadventures of Slim O. Wittz, Soft-Boiled Detective; and Copper and Goldie.
ROSEMARY, a graduate of Smith College and former assistant editor of Harper’s, also delves into her own nonfiction life. She published two memoirs: Love! Laugh! Panic! Life With My Mother and the acclaimed Miriam’s World—and Mine, for the beloved daughter they lost in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. On her lighter side, Rosemary writes award-winning crazily humorous essays, such as failing the test to appear on Jeopardy; and as a writer for a giant free-spending corporation on a sudden budget: “No new pencil unless you turn in the old stub.”
LARRY, who was only called Lawrence when he did something wrong, graduated from American University in Information Systems Management. In 2019 he published his autobiography, No Place To be But Here, which traces his thirty-eight-year professional engineering career from its roots as an electronics technician in the U.S. Navy, to a field engineer riding Naval ships, to a digital systems and instrument designer for major Government contractors in the signal analysis field, to where he rose to the most senior level of principal engineer when he retired in 1993.
Making use of his past creativity and problem-solving abilities, Larry naturally drifted into the realm of mystery writing, where he also claims to be more devious than his partner-in-crime and best love, Rosemary. So he conjures up their plots and writes the first drafts, leaving Rosemary to breath life into their characters and sizzle into their scenes. A perfect marriage of their talents.
THE MILDS are active members of Sisters in Crime, where Larry is a Mister in Crime; Mystery Writer of America; and Hawaii Fiction Writers. In 2013 they waved goodbye to Severna Park, Maryland and moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where they cherish quality time with their daughters and grandchildren. When Honolulu hosted Left Coast Crime in 2017, Rosemary and Larry were the program co-chairs for Honolulu Havoc.
Over a dozen worldwide trips to Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Great Britain, France, Italy, Israel, Egypt, and more have wormed their way into their amazing stories. In their limited spare time, they both are active screeners on Honolulu’s Jewish Film Festival committee, where Larry is the statistician and record-keeper for their film ratings.
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