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Q&A WITH YA AUTHOR SUSAN X. BRADLEY

    The Latina Book Club is pleased to welcome author Susan X. Bradley -- a Latina Nancy Drew --   who has written a fun mystery series staring a Latina teen heroine.   Happy Reading! WRITING TIP :   Read, read, then read some more. Writers must be readers. Know your genre and the formula the reader expects. -- S.X. Bradley Q:   What does the X stand for?  And how does a Mexican-American from South Texas end up in Ohio? A: The X is because I don’t have a middle name. For all my computer log-ins at work, they used to use your middle initial for your log-in name. Since I didn’t have one, they used an X, and I liked it. As for living in Ohio, I moved to be closer to my sister. She had two new babies, so I wanted to be closer to my nieces and sister. Q:   Your love of mysteries started at an early age. Can you remember what got you interested in mysteries? Do you remember when you created your first one? A:   I...