MP Smith is a lifelong lover of the English language. She served as a technical writer/editor for 35 years and marveled that she was paid to read, being the kid with the flashlight under the blanket who read anything she could get her hands on! MP retired in 2021 and published her first cozy mystery novella a month later (Ho, Ho, Homicide, in the anthology Clues, Christmas Trees and Corpses (Clues@@ Christmas Trees and Corpses: A Cozy Mystery Christmas Anthology (Aye Alba Anthologies)