CHARIS COTTER

Here I am, dirty pajamas and all The life of a writer holds some sweet moments. One of the sweetest is writing the last line of a book. Today I did that. The line is: “Yay,” he called out. “More ghosts!” It may not look like much without the other 53 chapters in front of it! But it brought a big smile to me just now when I wrote it. The book is “Roxy Malone and the Shadow of Dread,” and it’s a collaboration between me and my daughter, Zoe Cleland. We started it back in 2022,