The following is the transcript of a conversation I had with a woman we’ll call Joanna Doe, a Teller Manager in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
PF: ———, first I want to thank you for agreeing to speak with me. I figured for sure you’d hang up once I told you the subject of this interview.
JD: Not at all. I think it’s so cool your book is finally coming out. I remember you talking about it all those years ago when we worked together.
PF: Don’t remind me. So how long have you been with the bank?
JD: Almost eighteen years.
PF: And how many robberies have you witnessed?
JD: Nineteen.
PF: That seems like a lot?
JD: At the old branch I worked at, we got hit at least once a year. I think the bank finally got around to installing bulletproof glass across the teller line.
PF: Were any of the robberies violent?
JD: A few. I remember one from way back. It was the day before Thanksgiving. Two men forced the branch manager, myself, three tellers and two customers at gun point into the vault and locked us inside.
PF: I always thought of you as like a combat veteran when it came to retail banking. It’s one of the reasons I thought to call you, too. And who better to ask how to rob a bank than someone who spends forty hours a week inside one.
“I’ve never been able to walk up to a person and take a bite out of them. It’s always seemed kind of, I don’t know, impolite.” – Don’t Look Over the Edge of the World
Felicity Howard, heroine of my Monastery Murders clerical mystery series, is a thoroughly modern American woman who has gone off— rather rashly as she does most things— to study theology in a monastery in Yorkshire. Felicity is determined to set the world right and has little time for learning the wisdom of the ages as her church history lecturer Father Antony keeps urging her to do.
From Graham Parke, the award winning author of 
“I’ve been shot, blown up, chased, and assaulted in the past couple of weeks and I’d just as soon hedge my bets.” – Dev Haskell
“Some situations you just need to deal with. Walk through the fire, you know?” – Paula DeLacey
Thank you, Elizabeth, for the opportunity to post on your blog site. As you know I write crime fiction and am indie published, and I wanted to trumpet indie publishing through some stories of my own experience. Over the years I’ve lost count of the rejections I’ve received. Suffice to say they were in the hundreds when I stopped collecting them; I think I lead the league in the rejection department.
I always heard that television was a cutthroat business, but this is ridiculous. – Danny Boyle
“I’m more passive aggressive than aggressive. I’m a wait and see kind of girl. More vulture than falcon.” – Miriam Black
