Suspense
Date Published: March 1, 2021
Publisher: Épouvantail Books
From Tropea, Italy to Michigan and Florida, the thieves Molly and April Danser are on the run, trying to escape from an enraged ex-US Marshal. He is hell bent on stopping them once and for all, his twisted black heart fired up for revenge and their total destruction. Will the sisters elude his blood-soaked hunt? They have their smarts and resource but have never faced a pursuit like this.
Can they somehow put an end to his blood lust?
What will they have to do to save themselves from his powerful and deadly claws?
The hunt is on…
What is the hardest part of writing
your books?
Most every part is enjoyable, but selecting
the theme or themes is where I’m slowed up the most and for good reason. While
“Thieves” and all the Danser novels are a twisted blend of roller coasters and
haunted house rides, I try to give each of these stories a thematic
undercurrent, such as the price of a life of crime. I typically spend a month
or more researching such questions, which is always interesting and often
frightening.
What songs are most played on
your Ipod?
During the “Thieves” write, it was Neil
Young’s “Arc” and “Weld” albums, which are rich in wild distortion and melody,
his guitar tipping at times into madness and close to chaos. Working with Molly
and April Danser and their own slippery grasp on reality and purpose, it was a
perfect and disturbing soundtrack.
Do you have critique partners
or beta readers?
The closest I come is my work with my
privately hired editor prior to sending the books to my publisher. We’ve done
several novels together and it’s always a dance, a back and forth, concerning
grammar, punctuation and continuity. She is brilliant at what she does and it’s
always a humbling learning experience, one I welcome with open arms because we
are both driven to the same goal: making the story the best it can be for the
reader.
What book are you reading
now?
Except for book club selections, I’m
reading and studying every non-fiction book I can find on 1959, focusing on the
history of hotels and motels with a notoriety for crime and homicides. This is
research for Chas Danser’s second novel, where he’s staring in the movie “Snow
Blind” set in that strange era.
How did you start your
writing career?
With a dare to myself. I was always an
obsessed reader, plowing through everything I could get my hands on, preferring
the written world to real life experiences. As a young songwriter, I loved the
magic of the brevity of lyrics, the challenge to say so much with so little. One
day I asked myself, “Why don’t you move over to prose and stretch your legs by
wadding into a novel?” The decision was
as simple as that. Without genre in mind, there were characters and locations I
knew I wanted to work with so I began with sketches and research, filling a hundred
or more index cards with penciled notes. After months of this, the story spoke
up for itself, saying, “Now write me.”
Tell us about your next release.
Following “Thieves” the second book of the
Obscurité de Floride Trilogy is “The
Disposables,” scheduled for publication on June 1st of this year. The
third book of the trilogy is “City of the Dead” coming out on October 1st
of this year. It’s an aggressive publishing schedule and will continue through
2022, with four works coming out during that year. I’m jazzed by this, loving how
my catalogue is getting into the hands of readers so quickly.
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
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