For Carolyn Haines, opportunity knocked at a Mississippi cocktail party. Attending the 1982 social, an Ole Miss professor told the future mega-author, “Carolyn, you need an agent.” She replied, “What’s an agent?” Today, from her Semmes home, office and farm, Haines is 8, 000 words short of book number 14 in the “Smarty Bones” mystery…
