Straight From the Mouth of Crime Fiction Thriller Author Jennifer Chase

 

10 Things You Might Not Know About The First Girls: Detective Katie Scott Book 11

By Jennifer Chase

1. The series takes place in a town called Pine Valley located in Sequoia County California, along with several nearby towns that are made up and entirely from my imagination.
2. The commands and search techniques used in the story are some of what I've learned firsthand training my own German shepherd for cadaver/forensic search.
3. This has been a series that I've wanted to write for some time—more than five years before I pitched to my publisher.
4. Detective Katie Scott's partner Detective Sean McGaven's character is based on someone I once worked with. 
5. I've studied nearly one hundred homicide crime scenes, which contributed to the body count and creativity in The First Girl.
6. Inspiration for the large rural areas in the story was based on my own observations in visiting similar places.
7. I sketched on paper the crime scenes and farmhouses, areas of escape, and where bodies would be located before writing those particular chapters.
8. In The First Girl, I loosely outlined the story before beginning to write, but I love to create the guessing game of who the killer is and how the ended is going to be crafted. I had fun with this story.
9. On my walks or when I'm doing errands, I sometimes take photos of places, locations, and buildings that helped to inspire this story's locations.
10. I always balance out how many times Detective Katie Scott uses Cisco, her retired military working dog, in area searches surrounding the cases.

The First Girl is available at Amazon & Other Retailers.

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Jennifer Chase is a multi award-winning and USA Today Best Selling crime fiction author, as well as a consulting criminologist. Jennifer holds a bachelor degree in police forensics and a master’s degree in criminology & criminal justice. These academic pursuits developed out of her curiosity about the criminal mind as well as from her own experience with a violent psychopath, providing Jennifer with deep personal investment in every story she tells. In addition, she holds certifications in serial crime and criminal profiling. Her latest book is The First Girl.

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Straight from the Mouth of Tom Carter, Author of 'Nashville: Music and Murder'

Name: Tom Carter

Book Title: "Nashville: Music and Murder"

Amazon Link to Book: http://www.authortomcarter.com/  

1) Thanks for letting us interrogate you!  Can you give us a go-for-the-gut answer as to why you wanted to be an author?

In 1987, I left a 17-year-old job as a reporter and didn't want

to affiliate with another newspaper.  I decided to try my hand at

writing a book.  I collaborated with singer Ronnie Milsap to

write his autobiography.  The book was a moderate success.  My

second collaboration, "Memories - the Autobiography of Ralph

Emery," rose to number-two on the New York Times best-sellers

list, and remained on the survey for twenty-six weeks.

Writing books was the right thing to do, I decided.  So here I

am, the writer of eighteen books, seven of which were New York

Times best-sellers and two USA Today best-sellers.  Life is good.

2) Tell us (we won't tell, promise) is it all cracked up to be? 

I mean what are the perks and what are the demands?

It's easy.  Sit down. Let your fingers tickle your computer's

keyboard, and wait for the money to arrive.  If you believe that,

I have some ocean front property for sale in Arizona. 

3) Which route did you take - traditional or self-published -

and can you give us the nitty gritty low down on what's that's

like?  Tell us for real what your family feels about your

spending so much time getting your book written, polished,

edited, formatted, published, what have you?

I've been published by traditional publishers.  More recently, I

wrote two self-published books mostly because my self-publisher

paid twice as much as conventional publishers, and I didn't have

to argue with an editor about content control.  My family is my

wife.  She helped me with the writing, production, and promotion

of my forthcoming, self-published books.  She therefore doesn't

resent my overworked schedule as she’s' a part of it.

4) This is for pet lovers.  If you don't own a pet, skip this  question.  But do your pets actually get their food on time or do they have to wait until you type just one word?

 Anyone who'd post this simplistic question really thinks that professional writing is easy, and really believe I actually own ocean front property in Arizona. Perhaps the writer here  should spend two years writing a book, and then flash it all over social media, thinking its title and a six-word description will  sell the book.  Let me know how that works for you.

 5) In writing your book, how did you deal with the phone  ringing, your family needing dinner or your boss calling you  saying you're late?

 These questions are as trite as asking how many vehicles

 comprise a two-car motorcade.  I'm through with this silly

 exercise.