Kathleen Marple Kalb likes to describe herself as an Author/Anchor/Mom...not in that order. An award-winning radio journalist,she currently anchors on the weekend morning show at New York's #1 news station, 1010 WINS. She's the author of several mysteries, historical and contemporary. Her short stories appear in anthologies and online and have been short-listed for Derringer and Black Orchid Novella Awards. She grew up in front of a microphone and a keyboard, working as an overnight DJ as a teenager in her hometown of Brookville, Pennsylvania...and writing her first (thankfully unpublished) novel at sixteen. When her son started kindergarten, she returned to fiction, and after two failed projects, some 200 rejections, and a family health crisis, found an agent for the third book-leading to a pandemic debut. In hopes of sharing what she's learned the hard way, she's active in writers' groups, including Sisters in Crime and the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and keeps a weekly writing survival tips blog. She, her husband, and their son live in Connecticut in a house owned by their cat.