All Money Ain’t Good Money

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All Money Ain’t Good Money Author Tracey Lampley.

Why I Pursued My Master of Arts in Creative Writing

So, I’ve been writing stories since I was a little girl. My maternal uncle even purchased my first home-spun book for a cheap nickel. He swears to this day it was a quarter. But it was a nickel. I continued writing stories and family and friends always swore they loved them. As I matured, I wrote smut as a high school senior. As an adult, I wrote on and off. When I finally gathered up enough nerve to send out a short mini mystery to Woman’s World, voila they published it. I made a cool $500 bucks. I thought, “Gee, I could easily make a living writing novel.”

I was wrong. First, I had no patience for writing at least 50,000 words. Second, my novella that I submitted to a small publisher lacked structure. Structure? What is that? Exactly! Will someone please educate Tracey Lampley on the elements of writing fiction before she continuously makes a fool of herself by resubmitting the same or different variations of the same story to publishers?

After some soul-searching, I decided to enroll in Southern New Hampshire University’s Master of Arts Program in Creative Writing because their MFA Program in Creative Writing was too long. Are you getting that my patience is the size of a gnat? Both programs are great because I plotted All Money Ain’t Good Money in my first term of the program when I devised it as my final project in my “Story and Concept” class in which I earned a B+. I’m still upset with myself because I broke down all the scenes but failed to divide them into chapters! So, I missed the A+ or A!

Professor Paul Hackman was very encouraging and thought I should pursue my story if I had the patience. Ah. That word again. Patience. Well, I lacked that. So, the outline languished for another six months before I finally picked it up and fleshed out the characters and the scenes. Next was the other dreaded word—research. Research involved things like whether a young character would smoke a cigarette or just vape. Other research decisions came into play, but I don’t want to give away my plot. Until next time . . .

Book Summary

The Players
Deebo: He’s the scintillating rapper who may be secretly married to the missing teen. A marriage revelation infringes on the rapper’s rising-star status. Did Deebo off his wife to preserve record sales?

Bam: He’s Jinx’s childhood friend who loaned the sleuth a boatload of money. With Jinx unable to repay the loan, has Bam decided to make an example out of Jinx for lack of repayment?

Elena: She’s the missing person. Perhaps Elena doesn’t want to be found. Will she kill Jinx to prevent the sleuth from exposing her location?

Young Calloway: He’s the Georgetown Law School dropout and only grandson of Congressman Calloway. After Jinx discovers the rivalry between Elena and Young Calloway, Jinx also uncovers Young Calloway’s dark past. Has Young Calloway decided to eliminate Jinx to cover up his crimes?

Congressman Calloway: Up for re-election, the congressman cannot afford a family scandal. Did he hire Jinx to find Elena to coverup the young teen’s possible murder? If so, has he decided to eliminate Jinx to clean up the family mess?

Jinx Curry is a single mom who spends her days spying on cheating wives and husbands, but she aches for more importance. When her boss, Capricorn Hayes, finally assigns Jinx a missing persons case involving a congressman’s missing granddaughter, Jinx jumps at the chance. Not only to solve it, but to earn the fifty-thousand-dollar bonus that would pay her bills and get a menacing creditor off her back.

But the investigation proves more dangerous and costly than Jinx believes. After an unknown individual in a black Corvette nearly runs Jinx down and begins stalking her, Jinx has to sacrifice her relationship with her daughter by sending Arielle to live with her father. Can Jinx find the congressman’s granddaughter while surviving her stalker? Or will this job be her last?

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