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Last night, we took a few minutes to check in with Elana to see how she was feeling after some great news. Here’s what she said . . .
Readers’ Favourite is a reputable book review web site, and they’ve just awarded you a five star badge for Dragon Speaker. How did you feel when you heard the news?
Very excited, and quite a bit relieved! I saw that I’d gotten the review early in the morning, but …
Whilst the writer of Dragon Speaker sat at JFK airport waiting to embark on the journey that would eventually bring her to Barnstaple, we squeezed in on last interview.
So you’re sat at the airport ready for your flight to England. Is it finally sinking in that your first novel is about to be released? How do you feel?
Right now I think I’m somewhat in shock. The past few days I’ve been working at my day …
I guess we should start by saying that Street Girl certainly isn’t for the feint hearted, is it?
No, not really. It’s a tough story about a hard life, but it comes good in the end. I’m hoping it will be inspirational for many readers, particularly women readers. I’m sure many of them will be able to identify with some of the things I went through.
With this story being a memoir, and particularly one with such …
PWM: Where did the inspiration for Dragon Speaker come from?
ELANA: I started writing Dragon Speaker on the day I turned 14. I was a socially awkward kid, just a little too weird to fit in, and I had an existential crisis on my birthday – or at least, as existential a crisis as a teenage girl can have. “Who am I?” I wondered. “Where is my life headed? What sort of person am I going …
PWM: What made you write The Moors?
JODY: It’s a tough question to answer because it’s one of the very first things I wrote, and why does anyone work on that first project? I was studying at the time. I adored films, but the film studies course I was on was incredibly limited and with too much theory for my liking – so I wrote The Moors as a screenplay.
The book started as a screenplay?
Yes, it …
Right after Jody read the prologue to his debut novel, The Moors, he sat down and took a selection of questions from somebody who knows him incredibly well, his older sister, before taking further questions from the audience.
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On Monday 22nd June 2015, Jody was invited onto radio talk show Baggy’s Book Club to discuss the forthcoming release of The Moors.
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Jody, you’re gearing up for the release of your first ever paperback novel. How are preparations going?
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Hello Rebecca. You’re the Indie-publishing Account Manager at Clays. What exactly does your role entail?
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Note: The interview contains a handful of spoilers, so if you haven’t seen it already, give No Man’s Land a watch before reading any further.
How did the idea for No Man’s Land come about?
Patricia Doyle, who is a very well established theatre director, had the beginnings of an idea for a silent film set in Germany. As I had assisted her on her first short film in 2011, she approached me and asked if I …
