"MYSTERY FICTION: Loretta Scott Miller, who worked at Lockheed for 30 years, is now an author, a role she has wanted to play for years but put on hold until she was nearly retired. The book is a mystery set in Santa Cruz titled A Ride on the Trojan Horse. |
The protagonists - TJ Billings, daughter Lisbee and Uncle Beau - span three generations and operate a private detective firem. The book is the first in a series that will feature this P.I. team. The publisher is 1st Books Library of Bloomington, Ind., an international online library. |
Under this system, a copy of the book is printed only after an order is received. The buyer can purchase the book online by ordering it and then downloading it electronically, or ordering it the traditional way - printed and sent from www.1stbooks.com. |
Hot off the presses has been changed to hot off the computer and so, in a sense, it's custom-made. No warehouse of unsold copies to worry about. Conventional copies can be found in local bookstores, such as Crown, where Miller held a book signing last week. |
She also will participate in an author signing on Dec. 11 at noon at Border's. . . . |
. . . As for mystery writer Miller, in her former life at Lockheed, she worked with a computer system that enhanced digital satellite imagery, a system still used by the military and government agencies. |
She and husband Todd have a second home, a 38-foot seagoing trawler, berthed in Pittsburg, Calif., near the bay and the delta. Loretta grew up in Los Gatos; she is a 1960 graduate of Los Gatos High School." |