Q&A: Chicago novelist Mia P. Manansala on ‘Homicide and Halo-Halo,’ her latest ‘cozy’ mystery
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By Cheryn Shin Medill Reports Chicago-based novelist Mia P. Manansala brainstorms story ideas in Google Docs and jots notes on her iPhone. When she drafts, she uses an Alphasmart Neo 2 Word Processor – basically, a digital typewriter that connects to a computer. It’s old-fashioned, but it works. Last month the 35-year-old Filipino American author […]