As I wait for the back cover and all the other pieces for Effective Public Speaking, I can finally write some fiction. (Yay!)
This week's podcast is the opening of a caper, a form of mystery story.
Enjoy!
The Podcast:
The Transcript:
This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for September 12, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.
This is the opening of a caper mystery.
Lexi Flint was in her element. Smack in the middle of Boston’s Financial District, in the IT department—aka the basement—of the People’s Liberty Bank, in the ridiculously small conference room, she’d created her own little spy conclave.
Posing as auditors, Lexi and her boss, Zara Glick, now commandeered this teeny, twelve-by-six auditor’s conference room in the middle of the bank’s IT department. Lexi faced a wall of monitors, her laptop on the small four-foot wide, off-white laminate table in front of her, Diet Coke on the left, and Zara Glick, the Boss, sitting on her right, she felt as if she was in Hacker Heaven.