Alissa F. asked Tamara Jones:

What inspired you to write the Dubric Bryerly series?

Tamara Jones I've been a 'writer' since I was a kid - wrote my first book when I was seven, my first novel at fourteen - and writing was always a way for me to vent, to cope, to explore whatever was bugging me.

Back in 2001, when I wrote Ghosts in the Snow, my father was rapidly declining from an illness and our family rallied to take care of him. Dad and I had a contentious relationship but, besides Mom, I lived the closest so I spent plenty of time 'dad sitting'. Since we didn't get along well, I'd come home afterward and write. And write. And write, all about a crazed man killing servant girls for their kidneys and hair while a group of good men tried to stop him. (I was venting. Oh boy, was I venting!)

So that's how the series started. Me venting off anger/frustration with my dad. {{hugs}}

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