Suspense
Date Published: 7/1/2020
Publisher: Épouvantail Books, LLC
Murder and Madness in the High Sierras
The tragic and gruesome story of the Donner Party is being made into a movie, a tale of cannibalism and treachery high in the snowbound mountains. The cast is made up entirely of children. One by one, they are dying. The series of deaths are haunting the production, each one of the “accidents” at the hands of Florentino Urbino. Driven by greed and jealousy, he is killing off the film’s stars to line his pockets by selling off the gruesome footage of the accidents.
Six-year-old actress SeaBee Danser in her black veil is his next target. She is the only one who can see through the black curtain that Florentino Urbino drapes over his deranged and murderous heart.
Can she survive?
Can he be stopped?
Will any of the children be left standing?
Interview
What is the hardest part of writing
your books?
For Black Veil as with all off the Danser novels, it’s the work with my private editor before the book goes to my publisher. We have an amazing relationship based on a lot of trust and she is a true professional when it comes to grammar and punctuation. We always go through a book three times before either of us is satisfied and while the work is not hard, it is often humbling and a challenge because I treat punctuation as the song’s rhythm section, which is often breaks a lot of rules.
For Black Veil as with all off the Danser novels, it’s the work with my private editor before the book goes to my publisher. We have an amazing relationship based on a lot of trust and she is a true professional when it comes to grammar and punctuation. We always go through a book three times before either of us is satisfied and while the work is not hard, it is often humbling and a challenge because I treat punctuation as the song’s rhythm section, which is often breaks a lot of rules.
What songs are most played on
your Ipod?
For this write, it was Los Lonely Boys and The Hellecasters.
Do you have critique partners
or beta readers?
I don’t work with beta readers
(and I stay a million miles away from writing and critique groups), but I did
work closely on Black Veil with my
two favorite partners in crime. The first is the brilliant professional editor,
Nicki Kuzn, who corrects my abuse of grammar and punctuation rules. The second
is Robert Jolley, who is amazingly gifted at continuity edits. I love it when
he says, “The gun was in the glove box. How did it get on the kitchen table?”
What book are you reading
now?
Candide by Voltaire and The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Montello (a Mary Shelley –
Frankenstein study)
How did you start your
writing career?
Like most of the best adventures, with
a dare. Having a deep love of language and word play and stories since I was a
child, and being a constant reader, I simple said to myself, “Why don’t you write one?” That was the spark for Distractions, published about two years
later.
The next novel is Thieves, a Molly and April Danser story. It is scheduled for
release by Épouvantail Books in December of this year. The sisters have lived a
life of crime, mostly thefts from those they believe deserve it the most –
social vultures such as 1-800 lawyers.
Things turn dark and twisted when an innocent man dies and an ex US
Marshal decides that he has to put them down, permanently. Thieves is more of a roller coaster than Black Veil, which is actually more like a haunted house ride.
About the Author
Greg Jolley earned a Master of Arts in Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in the very small town of Ormond Beach, Florida. When not writing, he researches historical crime, primarily those of the 1800s. Or goes surfing.
Contact Links
Twitter: @gfjolle
email: gfjolle@sbcglobal.net
Purchase Links
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Thank you so very much for the "Black Veil' interview!
ReplyDeleteAll the best,
Greg Jolley
The Danser Novels