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avidreader_1410 t1_jclzy0f wrote

Okay, this is not about me throwing a book across the room but how a thrown book led to an award winning series.

There was a woman named Virginia Lanier -poor and with a modest education, but a voracious reader. I heard that when they published that list of 100 great books, she already read 98 of them. Anyway, one day she got so disgusted with a book she threw it across the room and told her husband she could write better, so he said, "Why don't you?" The result was the first in her "bloodhound" series, "Death in Bloodhound Red" about a woman who trains bloodhounds for search and rescue. It won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Lanier was 65 when it was published.

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ZubLor t1_jdbqrrj wrote

I love Lanier! I never met anyone else familiar with her books. I pestered our poor reference librarian for months trying to find out when her next book would be out, only to find out Ms. Lanier had died.

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avidreader_1410 t1_jdcaomf wrote

Yes, Lanier had chronic health problems - I think she died around '14. I did hear that her books had been optioned for a series and then stalled out which is a shame because that's a series I'd watch.

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