On a more prosaic note, it’s easy to spell! There is a strong overlap of women healers and women accused of being witches, so I chose Blackwell as something of a personal tribute to her. I found Blackwell’s story inspirational, and too rarely told. I just learned that my great grandmother was a Cherokee named Mary Black, and as I was doing research for the Witchcraft series and reading about the history of women healers I came across the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive an official MD in the United States. Juliet is very close to my real name, Julie, so I thought I stood a good chance of answering to it, even after a couple of drinks at convention cocktail parties. But now I’m writing the new Witchcraft mystery series on my own, so I needed to come up with a new pseudonym. We wanted the books to have a unified voice and a single name on the cover, so we finally settled on an old family name, Hailey Lind, as our mutual pseudonym. Juliet: I’ve been accused of being in the witness protection program, but there’s a good reason for the multiple personalities! I wrote the Art Lover’s Mystery series - about an ex-art forger making a living as a faux finisher in San Francisco- with my sister Carolyn. Please set me straight on your multiple personalities. RHYS:Hi and welcome to someone I first knew as Hailey, then Julie and now Juliet. Today JRR welcomes mystery writer Juliet Blackwell, author of the new witchcraft mystery Secondhand Spirits.
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