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Jodi Taylor:
Cheers Jodi! I am sure you've been asked this before, but I couldn't easily find an answer, and I'd rather ask you than my friend Echo (aka ChatGPT). What made you decide to start writing at age 60?
Jodi Taylor
I was living and working in Turkey and I got the chance to retire. A chance to lie around in the sun and do nothing. Which was wonderful for three weeks and then I was bored so I thought I'd see if I could write a book. There was no intention to publish - I just wanted to see if I had the mental discipline. And then some friends took me to lunch in the fish market and there was wine and they persuaded me to self publish Just One Damned Thing After Another on Amazon. I didn't have a clue what I was doing but the gods of publishing must have been smiling on me because it did rather well. No one tells you how addictive writing is - and forty novels and short stories later I'm coming to the conclusion I can't stop. I shall probably still be banging away on my laptop as they lower me into my grave!
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Kelsey
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Jodi Taylor:
Hi Jodi! I just finished Dark Light (loved it) and just wanted to tell you that when I was reading the part with the backstory of Iblis I kept thinking to myself that I wished it was an entire book! What a great story within the book! It's making me ask a question, so I will ask: how are you doing? I only have two books of yours left that I haven't read and it makes me a little sad.
Jillmwaitrose.Com
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Jodi Taylor:
Hello Jodi. I'm addicted to your books and very much enjoy reading all your 'themes'. Noting the 'local' connections is that why you named the St Mary's Director 'Edward Bairstow'? Are we likely to have any references made to the English (Yorkshire) composer of the same name whose musical life included York Minster, or any musical elements in your stories? Keep writing, please, your books brighten my life.
Honey Regan
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Jodi Taylor:
I have a stupid question but is it okay to draw out what you think the books would look like. I get really inspired to draw the environments you describe, the gadgets and the characters. Although when looking into some things it said not to show any representation of the characters. I totally understand everyone has their own versions in their heads but can I still draw what I feel passionate about. Is that okay?
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