We remember.....CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS

 This October marks one year since the passing of the human's friend and mentor, author Carole Nelson Douglas.  Carole is the person who encouraged the human to "suck it up" and make the changes that enabled the first three volumes in the Nick and Nora series to be published by Berkley.  After being discontinued in "the great cozy massacre" of 2016, NN finally found another home at Beyond the Page!  But if not for Carole's encouragement, there might never have been a Nick and Nora series at all!

Below is our tribute to this fine author and friend, courtesy of Wikipedia:

PIctured above: Carole with "Midnight Louie"

 Carole Nelson Douglas (November 15, 1944 – October 2021) was an American writer of sixty novels and many short stories. She has written in many genres, but is best known for two popular mystery series, the Irene Adler Sherlockian suspense novels and the Midnight Louie mystery series.

Douglas was a theater and English literature major in college. After graduation, she worked as a newspaper reporter and then editor in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. During her time there, she discovered a long, expensive classified advertisement offering a black cat named Midnight Louie to the "right" home for one dollar and wrote a feature story on the plucky survival artist, putting it into the cat's point of view. The cat found a country home but its name was revived for her feline PI mystery series many years later. Some of the Midnight Louie series entries include the dedication "For the real and original Midnight Louie. Nine lives were not enough."

She began writing fiction in the late 1970s. The late director/playwright/novelist Garson Kanin, a pleased interview subject, took her first novel to Doubleday and it sold shortly after. Amberleigh is a post-feminist historical Gothic novel. Douglas has always addressed women's issues in her fiction and preferred mixing genres from contemporary to historical mystery/thriller, romance and women's fiction, and high and urban fantasy.^[1]

Douglas lived in north Texas with her husband, Sam Douglas, and adopted cats.^[2]

Midnight Louie series[edit]

• Catnap (1992) ISBN 0-7927-1644-2
• Pussyfoot (1993), ISBN 0-312-85218-5
• Cat on a Blue Monday (1994), ISBN 0-312-85607-5
• Cat in a Crimson Haze (1995), ISBN 0-8125-4414-5
• Cat in a Diamond Dazzle (1996), ISBN 0-8125-5506-6
• Cat with an Emerald Eye (1996), ISBN 0-312-86228-8
• Cat in a Flamingo Fedora (1997), ISBN 0-8125-6535-5
• Cat in a Golden Garland (1997), ISBN 0-312-86386-1
• Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt (1998), ISBN 0-312-86634-8
• Cat in an Indigo Mood (1999), ISBN 0-312-86635-6
• Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit (1999), ISBN 0-312-86817-0
• Cat in a Kiwi Con (2000), ISBN 0-8125-8425-2
• Cat in a Leopard Spot (2001), ISBN 0-8125-7022-7
• Cat in a Midnight Choir (2002), ISBN 0-312-85797-7
• Cat in a Neon Nightmare (2003), ISBN 0-7653-4592-7
• Cat in an Orange Twist (2004), ISBN 0-7653-4593-5
• Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit (2005), ISBN 0-7653-1399-5
• Cat in a Quicksilver Caper (2006), ISBN 0-7653-1400-2
• Cat in a Red Hot Rage (2007), ISBN 0-7653-1401-0
• Cat in a Sapphire Slipper (2008)
• Cat in a Topaz Tango (2009)
• Cat in a Ultramarine Scheme (2010)
• Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta (2011)^[3]
• Cat in a White Tie and Tails, 2012
• Cat in an Alien X-Ray, 2013
• Cat in a Yellow Spotlight, 2014
• Cat in a Zebra Zoot Suit, 2015
• Cat in an Alphabet Endgame, 2016
• Absinthe without Leave, 2018 (first in a new series combining the Midnight Louie, Delilah Street, and Irene Adler series.)