Kathleen has a work friend in Robin, the mute (and cute) 19-year-old boy who handles maintenance.
The librarian, Miss Finch, is demanding and cold. The Freemont Public Library is inside a sprawling, damp mansion donated by a long-dead citizen. And yes.it's haunted.Despite having one of the best jobs one could have as a high school student, working at the public library, Kathleen hates her job. She writes at an antique rolltop desk which was once owned by a funeral director. Twenty-eight books later, she now lives in Missouri with her cocker spaniel Audrey and is currently at work on a new novel. Upon publication of her first book Evil On The Bayou she left Hallmark and began writing books full time. Once again, her house was inhabited by a ghost. Soon after graduation she moved to Kansas City, where she worked as a writer at Hallmark Greeting Cards for nine years. She attended Riverdale High School, then went on to the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now called UL Lafayette) in Lafayette (Cajun capital of the world!) where she graduated with a BA in English and a minor in English history. Though her growing- up years were spent in Louisiana, summers were spent in Missouri with her grandparents, where she received regular and fascinating doses of Ozark superstitions and folk tales. When Richie was old enough to start school, the family moved to the suburbs where they shared their home with a ghost. Many of these childhood experiences would prove to be major inspiration for her books. The influence of Southern mystery and charm was overwhelming to a little girl's ins of old plantation houses, aboveground cemeteries, moss-draped oak trees, crumbling churches, shrimp boats, old drawbridges, haunted roads, and the murky waters of the bayou. Rich with legends and folklore, this area was once frequented by the pirate Jean Lafitte, who supposedly hid his treasure within the dark shadows of Bayou Barataria. Being an only child, she began at an early age to invent invisible friends and special worlds of her own, which sparked her passion for writing.Īmong her first and fondest memories is living alongside the bayou in the small town of Barataria. Richie Tankersley Cusick was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on April Fools Day. Cusick's novel "Walk of the Spirits" was released in April 2008.įrom her official website : 2" based on the teleplays "Halloween" by Carl Ellsworth, "What's My Line, part 1" by Howard Gordon and Marti Noxon and "What's My Line, part 2" by Marti Noxon.
She has also contributed to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer book series with the novelization of the 1992 film, the first two TV episodes, collected under the title of The Harvest, from screenplays by Joss Whedon, and "The Angel Chronicles Vol. She has written more than 25 novels since her first, Evil on the Bayou (1984). Richie Tankersley Cusick (born ApNew Orleans, Louisiana) is an American author.
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