... to my blog today. Thanks for being here and I know how busy you are so I'll just get straight to the questions...
AW What is your current release?
JVB The Forgotten will be published by Crooked Cat Books on June 13th,
2018. It’s available to preorder now on Amazon
... and here's the blurb
What if everything was a lie?
Newly promoted byt not welcome in CID, Detective Sergeant Helen Carter is tasked with investigating a murder in an old abandoned picture house. The case takes a chilling turn when the business card of an ex-cop is found at the scene. Helen must piece together the case before the bodies mount up around her, and before the killer strikes too close to home...
AW That sounds vey interesting. What first got you into writing
and why?
JVB I’ve always enjoyed writing from a young age. I really got the bug when
I enrolled on a writing course with the Open University. I wrote my novel for my dissertation project
for my Master's course at Manchester Metropolitan University.
AW You write crime fiction. Is it all imagination or do you also
undertake research?
JVB My novel took a lot of research to get all the police procedural
aspects right and as my novel is set in Edinburgh in 1977, I spent time going
through historical records.
AW And what about other types of
writing? Have you ever dabbled with
short stories, for instance, or other genres?
AW Famous authors, such as Roald
Dahl and Dylan Thomas, had a special space for writing. Do you have a writing ‘shed’ of your own?
JVB Sadly not. I write where and
when I can. I have a small toddler to
look after. So whenever they nap I
write. Mostly I have my laptop on my
knee on the sofa!
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| Ediburgh, the setting for The Forgotten |
AW Finally, if you had a whole
afternoon to yourself and could choose to spend it with any one individual,
living or dead or a character from a book, who would it be, and what would you
want to discuss?
JVB That’s a hard
question! Probably my mum as I could
show her my book and maybe read her some of it.
...about the author J.V. Baptie graduated from Manchester
Metropolitan University in 2017 with an MA in Creative Writing. When not writing, she is also an actress and
has appeared in a variety of children’s shows and stage plays.
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