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Writer BV Lawson began her career as a penniless poet at the tender age of ten when she won a poetry contest via the appropriately titled work, “Lost.” Unfortunately, although poetry can be a passionate lover, it rarely makes a good spouse. After more poems and the diversion of two college music degrees, BV found her way into a slightly more lucrative writing career (you think penniless poets have problems -- try being a musician) with feature articles for newspapers and magazines.
Whither mysteries, then? Blame it on a librarian mother who got her addicted to the genre, and all the other relatives who kept mystery authors reasonably well-fed with frequent purchases of their books, helping BV realize mysteries can touch the lives of a broad cross-section of readers. It’s also appealing that mysteries allow writers an unusual opportunity to create characters and watch them grow through the years as they become part of the family.
BV’s favorite literary family-member creation, Scott Draycoe, is featured in short stories, as well as the work-in-progress debut novel Elegy for Cape Unity (wt).
BV is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Washington Independent Writers.
Check out BV’s new mystery blog, In Reference to Murder.
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QUIRKY BV FACTOIDS
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One of BV’s grandfathers was a drummer for a Dixieland Band. He played with such luminaries as Artie Shaw.
BV’s first piano recital piece (at the ripe old age of 6) was, fittingly, “Traffic Cop.”
BV once changed her clothes in the middle of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. She was part of the choral group America’s Youth In Concert, and, with no place to change into uniforms at the cathedral, the girls made a circle and took turns changing inside the circle (teenagers, you know; they’ll do anything).
BV has sung in Carnegie Hall. It was part of that same choral group above, but hey -- it’s still Carnegie Hall!
BV was an announcer for a classical music radio station for years. Her favorite bloopers include saying “compact dick” instead of “compact disc,” and “Martin Luther King,” instead of “Martin Luther” (referring to Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony).
BV once worked for an Arabic-language television news magazine, writing features and human-interest scripts, despite not knowing a word of Arabic. Still doesn’t!
BV participated in a backyard astronomy session at David Levy’s home in Arizona. (Remember Comet Shoemaker-Levy?) On that same tour, she got a chance to meet Carolyn Shoemaker, too.
BV gets to putt around with her pilot-husband in a little Cessna 172 traveling throughout the mid-Atlantic and East Coast. So far, they’ve been to sites in Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Florida (and flown over others), with more to come. It’s a wonderful view from up there, but also a little sad at times to see the layer of brown pollution hanging over the area. The airport at Morgantown, West Virginia, has a wonderful little Mediterranean Restaurant, by the way. Wonderful grape leaves!
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LATEST
NEWS
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Short Story “Una furtiva lagrima” to be published in October 2007 edition of Cantaraville
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Short Story “Elementary, My Dear Abraham” published in Spring 2007 edition of Mysterical-E
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