I am very pleased today to welcome to the blog, Anne Cassidy! Anne's latest book, Dead Time, is the first in new series called The Murder Notebooks. It sounds absolutely intriguing, but don't take my word for it, here's the product description:
Rose and Joshua first
met when Joshua and his dad came to live with Rose and her mum. Then
their world turns upside down when their mother and father go out for
dinner one evening and never return. With police inquiries going
nowhere, Rose is dispatched to live with her chilly, unfriendly
grandmother and Joshua is sent to live with his uncle. Then Joshua comes
to London to study and Rose is witness to not one, but two murders. Why
is this happening to Rose? Can it be anything to do with the
investigations Joshua has been doing into the disappearance of their
parents? A taut and pacy thriller that is the start of a stylish new
series from an acclaimed writer for teens.
To find out more about Dead Time or Anne Cassidy, please do visit the following websites:
Can you tell me a little something about yourself?
I am a writer of crime fiction for young adults. I
have one son and live with my husband and two dogs in Essex. I am an
Essex girl.
Did you have a role model growing up?
I grew up in the sixties so my role models were the
film stars of the time. I wanted to be beautiful and thin and happy and
marry Mr Right. I eventually married Mr Right but for the rest – I
don’t know.
Who do you look up to now?
I admire people who don’t give up on things; Doreen
Lawrence. I admire people who are creative and take chances; Emma
Thompson. I admire people who write about life as it is lived; Anne Tyler.
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A film star or an air hostess.
Tell me something about the women in your life who have been an influence on you?
My mother is a huge influence on me. She has
powerful emotions for her family. She is a good and generous person. We
fought a lot when I was young but I knew I needed her. I’ve met
professional women in my life that I admired (as a teacher
and a writer). I always used to look at the things they did and the way
they were with people and I would try and emulate those things.
Sometimes successfully.
Who is your favourite fictional character? And why?
Maggie in ‘Breathing lessons’ by Anne
Tyler. Maggie is one of life’s optimists and stands tall against the
wave of family strife that threatens to engulf her. She tries to put
things right. Nothing ever goes right though but you have the
feeling that Maggie will never give up trying. I like that.
What were you like as a teenager and how did you cope with all the changes that occurred?
I was a very difficult teenager. I always wanted to
be older than my years and I pulled away from my parents as much as I
could. I was sulky and secretive and I was always falling in love and
having my heart broken. I thought I knew what
I wanted in life so I left school early, with almost no exams and went
to work in an office. It didn’t take long for me to realise that I was
wrong. The one sensible thing I did when I was seventeen was to put
myself on the birth pill (without my parents knowing).
If you had any advice for yourself as a teenager, what would you say?
Whatever advice I might have (with the wisdom of
age) would be rejected out of hand or listened to with forbearance to be
forgotten immediately after. Teenagers don’t take advice. Adults might
think they do. They don’t.
Of the issues and concerns that women are faced with today, what's the area you most like reading/writing about?
I like reading and thinking about how to make the
most of the coming years. I don’t want to retire so I must keep on
writing and maybe at some point write a novel for adults. I suppose
HEALTH is a big issue too. I dread becoming old and
needy and hate the fact that our society hasn’t faced up to this as a
major issue.
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