Ask the Author: Fleur Ferris
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Fleur Ferris
Sorry Rose, I didn't realise this question was here. It was posted a long time ago, but the answer would have been yes, I was working on Wreck. My next book Found is about to come out and now I am working on the next one.
Fleur Ferris
Not at this stage, unfortunately.
Fleur Ferris
A real life case that happened over twenty years ago in Australia that inspired the backstory of Black. That fuelled further research into that subject matter. A story and characters then emerged.
Fleur Ferris
Sorry Marti, I rarely come onto Goodreads and didn't realise this part of it existed, so I've only just seen your question now. All of my books are available in online and in bookstores in Australia and New Zealand. If you are outside of Australia, the best place to get my books is through The Book Depository.
Fleur Ferris
Thanks David. I realise your comment was posted a long time ago, but I hadn't seen it until now. The Write Around the Murray Festival is one of my favourites.
Fleur Ferris
Hi Deanna,
Thanks for your message. Unfortunately Risk isn't yet available as a paperback in Canada, however it is available worldwide as an audiobook through Audible.
The audiobook version of Risk is narrated by Australian actress Marny Kennedy and she did a fantastic job.
I hope this helps.
Fleur
Thanks for your message. Unfortunately Risk isn't yet available as a paperback in Canada, however it is available worldwide as an audiobook through Audible.
The audiobook version of Risk is narrated by Australian actress Marny Kennedy and she did a fantastic job.
I hope this helps.
Fleur
Fleur Ferris
Inspiration to write seems to come naturally from within. I started writing in journals when I as 8. While I pursued other career paths I wrote novels in my spare time. I have a compulsion to write which I find hard to turn off. I haven't ever experienced writers block, but I believe it exists. I guess if it happens to me I will have to find ways to overcome it then.
Fleur Ferris
I'm currently editing my next book. It will be out July 2016. It is another stand alone contemporary that sits well beside Risk.
Fleur Ferris
I get to do the thing I love the most. Write. It doesn't feel like work. Seeing my first book in print, as a real book, was a special moment. I don't think I will ever get tired of seeing it in bookstores.
Fleur Ferris
My inspiration for writing Risk came from a number of incidents. The first occurrence was when a friend contacted me, worried about her fourteen-year-old daughter, who had fallen for a guy she had met online. It became apparent to the mother that her daughter’s new friend was much older than he said he was and she feared that her daughter was being groomed by a predator. When the mother phoned the guy to confront him, he hung up, disconnected his phone and never made contact with the daughter again. Police were unable to identify him.
Over the next two weeks, three cases involving teenage girls being groomed and lured away by online predators were reported in local papers. The number of incidents in our community involving this issue caused me so much concern that I started researching it. At first I had no thoughts of writing a book about this subject. I was acting as a worried and protective mother of three children who were yet to reach the age where they would be users of social media. To realise how easy and riskless it was for predators to meet, groom and lure unsuspecting people was disturbing.
Somewhere in this process an idea for a book came to me, and once the characters were so vivid they seemed real, and when scenes played out in my head as though I was watching a movie, I began writing Risk.
Over the next two weeks, three cases involving teenage girls being groomed and lured away by online predators were reported in local papers. The number of incidents in our community involving this issue caused me so much concern that I started researching it. At first I had no thoughts of writing a book about this subject. I was acting as a worried and protective mother of three children who were yet to reach the age where they would be users of social media. To realise how easy and riskless it was for predators to meet, groom and lure unsuspecting people was disturbing.
Somewhere in this process an idea for a book came to me, and once the characters were so vivid they seemed real, and when scenes played out in my head as though I was watching a movie, I began writing Risk.
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