Friday Five: Q&A with ‘Mercedes Masterson’ author Nathan Weaver

Welcome to the inaugural post of Friday Five interviews with fellow travelers on this writing journey. I plan to post occasional five-question email interviews to spotlight other authors and their work. We kick it off this Friday with a question-and-answer session with Nathan “Nat” Weaver, author of the Mercedes Masterson series of detective stories of the hard-boiled variety. The first in the series, Sweet Sixteen Killer, was published in 2020. The next book, Jonah of Olympic, is expected out later this year. Nat is also a personal friend and a friend of this website.

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The first post-pandemic Leap Day

The COVID-19 pandemic split time into before and after sections as significantly as B.C. and A.D.

Today is the first Leap Day of our new era.

By new era, I mean the post-pandemic times we now find ourselves in.

Even though it’s only been four years since 2020, COVID-19 seems to have split time into before and after sections as significantly as B.C. and A.D (or BCE and CE, if you prefer).

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