Monday, April 14, 2014

Houston Author Event Interview & Giveaways: Day 6 Spotlight on Jillian Dodd




I was given the incredible opportunity to sit down and have some one-on-one face time with the attending authors at the recent Houston event. It was a blast! I got to pick their brains for five minutes each. Thanks to all of you who submitted questions, I was armed and prepared. ~Nadine 

We’ll be featuring a different author and their interview here for the next several days. Make sure you scroll to the bottom and enter the AMAZING Rafflecopter for your chance to win a SIGNED paperback from each attending author and keep scrolling for another chance to win various swag from the event. If you submitted a question on either My Secret Romance’s Facebook page or Oh Whimsical Me’s Facebook page, you get extra entry points.

Today’s spotlight is Jillian Dodd! You asked the questions, she answered them. Enjoy!

What inspired you to start writing?
I had three dreams. I kept dreaming about the same characters. So I started writing their story and I wanted to know more, so I made it up. And that is That Boy.

What are you planning to do next?
I’m going to finish the Keatyn Chronicles series. Book five comes out this week (Note: Book 5 is out now). Book 6 comes out in August. Then I’m going to write one of the characters from it; a spin-off single book. Then I’m going to finish the That Boy series.

If you could turn one of your books into a TV series or a movie, which one would you choose?
The Keatyn Chronicles. I’m a T.V. agent and it’s being looked at, so maybe it’ll happen sometime eventually.

What inspired your characters?
There’s so many. I have no idea what inspired them. It almost makes you sound crazy when you talk about they talk to you. You just have a person in your head. I think there’s a little piece of yourself in every character. I mean even every character in the book there’s different sides of me.

What was the time frame from start to finish for your first book?
Seven years. I didn’t work on it the whole time. But, publishing has changed a lot and I didn’t know what I was doing at all and I never set out to write a book. My husband gave me an article about the Kindle platform and he said you need to prove to our children that you can finish a project and I am notorious for taking on a project. I have a hutch that’s in our dining room that is half black and half a different color. And still it’s been two years and I’m still trying to decide what color I want it.

If you weren’t a writer, what would you be?
I was a buyer for clothing that’s what I did before this and I loved it.

Who do you fangirl over?
I met James Rawlings. I had lunch with him and that was really hard not to fangirl by.
Once again the chiming of the bells signaled my time was up.


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