Nancy G. West is my guest today. (I think). Actually, her protagonist Aggie asked me if she could get something off her chest, and, well, when a fictitious character wants something, you let her. Please welcome . . .er . . .Aggie Mundeen.
How to Upset your Protagonist
Author Nancy G. West
By Aggie Mundeen (Nancy G. West’s protagonist)
Hello, readers and bloggers. My name is Aggie Mundeen, an amateur but dedicated sleuth created by author Nancy G. West. I’m glad to have this opportunity to vent my frustrations with Nancy here on Donnell’s blog, although Nancy and I are now back on good terms. Mostly.
I was her star for four Aggie Mundeen Mysteries. Then she went AWOL and was cruising along as if she didn’t know me anymore. I was pretty upset.
This month she finished a novel about eighteen-year-old baseball player Decker Savage, whose parents are divorcing. In January of his senior year, he sits depressed and alone in a dark diner when a scruffy stranger in the far booth captures his interest. His mother walks into the murky place and sits across from this man. They chit chat, she smiles, then she says something that causes the man to jump up and blast out of the eatery. She looks perplexed, then angry. What does this creep have to do with Decker’s family? He has to find out. He follows the man out the back of the diner and into great danger.
What does the baseball player have to do with me? That book probably isn’t even funny. Nancy has obviously lost the plot. If she loses the plot, I’m a goner.
I do, however, have encouraging news. I just learned there are Second Editions 
released of the first two Aggie Mundeen Mysteries, Fit to Be Dead and Dang Near Dead. Cool! And a Second Edition of Nine Days to Evil—prequel to the Aggie Mundeen series. It is graduate student Meredith Laughlin’s story of psychological suspense. Meredith is facing a life-threatening dilemma when she meets me and Sam.
Nancy’s next project is to write an Aggie Mundeen Lake Mystery for a new spin-off series. After Sam and I nearly drown in a raging flood in The Plunge, our outlook and relationship change. Near death experiences have that effect.
Having survived the flood, I grow close to other survivors and want to help them rebuild their lives. My new friend Connie is director of Pecan Paradise, a retirement home in Seguin not far from the lake. She asks me to work there as Activities Director. Seguin is thirty-five miles from San Antonio where Sam is an SAPD detective. A new beginning? A temporary relocation? A permanent shift?
Will I have the opportunity to root out injustice? Without a wrong to set right, I get bored. Will Sam be involved?
Nancy hasn’t told me, so I’ll have to wait and see. At least I’m in her head again. I was beginning to worry.
Yours truly,
Aggie Mundeen.
About the Author: Nancy G. West was a business major who later studied English literature and discovered that writing fiction is a lot more fun than accounting. She is the author of psychological suspense, Nine Days to Evil, the Aggie Mundeen Mysteries, and The Plunge, lead-in to the spin-off series in progress, Aggie Mundeen Lake Mysteries. She recently completed a new novel of domestic suspense. http://www.nancygwest.com, http://tinyurl.com/authorNancyG-West
Dear Aggie: Not to cause you more grief, but you really need to get over yourself. I’ve written five books and four are single title. Did I hear from MY characters? Well, maybe a little bit. The point is Nancy hasn’t forgotten about you, she’s just growing as an author. And like the phrase, “We’ll always have Paris,” Nancy will always have Aggie Fun blog, Nancy, and your standalone sounds intriguing as well.
Dear Miss Nancy,
I am reaching out to you to contact your Miss Aggie. I am the personal secretary of J. C. Lawrence, the investigative reporter for CRP TV.
Mr. Lawerence would love to interview Miss Aggie in the near future to better inform his viewers on how a super sleuth copes with the stress during these uncertain times.
Kind Regards,
Malika Bourne
PS. Let’s do virtual lunch/
Dear Donnell, You are most kind to Nancy. I’ll try harder. With all those single titles, I’m surprised you haven’t heard from your characters. Some may be happy but some may be seething. Just saying . . .
Dear Malika,
Thanks for your interest. Can you email Nancy, ngwest at sbcglobal.net?
I must warn you; she writes better than she speaks.
Virtual lunch sounds awesome.
What fun! I hope Nancy takes better care of you in future, Aggie – although it sounds as if you have lots of hair-raising adventures to look forward to. 🙂
Oh Aggie, I’m so sorry Nancy treated you that way. You should NOT be ignored. I’ll have a talk with her and see if she can make it up to you somehow. I must say, though, that my author, Kaye George, is not treating me much better. She’s been working on my fourth book for EVVV er.
Yours truly, Imogene Duckworthy
Dear Imogene, Aggie thanks you. It’s nice to have a fellow sufferer. Tell Kaye, I get the forEVVVer thing. I’m starting a Guppy course soon, Plot Thickeners, that I hope speeds up the process for Aggie’ lake mystery.
Dear Barbara,
Thanks for the support. Nancy is outline my lake mystery so I’ll be in the thick of things soon. Yessss!