Get in the Car, Jupiter by Fisher Amelie

What do you like to do when you’re not writing?

My first book was The Undestorey, no longer available for sale, (psst, check Smashwords) and it was in 2009. When did you write your first book and how old were you? Something will strike me as interesting and my brain goes on over drive, conjuring up a character and their world, then before I know it, I’ve got a novel plotted out. Usually I get them from a random news story I’ll read or film I’ll watch. Where do you get your information or ideas for your books? In fact, I have to have complete silence to edit. I prefer the dark but it’s not necessary. I can’t write unless my kids are sleeping and it’s a confirmed sleep, all the doors in my house are locked, and most importantly I have to have earbuds with music going. What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?

It’s not a coincidence that my novels take so long to release. I sort of live by the expectation that my kids shouldn’t know that I’m a writer, so a lot of my time is spent with them. Needless to say, I only write when they’re asleep, which makes it difficult to get the words I need in daily.

What is your work schedule like when you’re writing?īusy! LOL I’ve three children, seven, three, and two. The material is a lot more emotional and the plots are simpler so I’m allowed to just run with it. Penny in London and my upcoming book, Get in the Car, Jupiter, each only took about six weeks. My other series, The Sleepless Series, each of those books took about six months each. I also painstakingly plot each of those novels and that can be tedious. Each Seven Deadly takes approximately eight to ten months, three of those months being research alone. My Seven Deadly Series novels take me much longer than most of my other novels solely because of the research that each entail. How long does it take you to write a book? I had a burning desire to lay a world down on paper and see where it took me. Flash forward several years and I had made a name for myself in that world, with several agencies, and had a comfortable living, but it wasn’t enough. When I was grown, after going into finance of all things, I decided to throw caution to the wind and attempt a career at copywriting. I did it because I loved it and I did it because it was all I ever wanted to do. I have written for years and years, tucking notebooks away under my bed and in tubs in the closet, never really thinking that I was practicing for a career. I didn’t have a fireworks moment, really. When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer? Graham Glenn may have tossed her in, but Oliver Finn made her feel again.

Get in the Car, Jupiter by Fisher Amelie