Ask the Author: Jennie Ensor
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Jennie Ensor
Visiting new places or ones I don't go to much is a sure-fire way of getting inspiration - and a great excuse to go travelling :) I stay in a house in the mountains a few times a year, which used to be very remote before we got broadband. It has inspired dozens of poems. It's wonderfully relaxing and creative mood inducing to sit out in the garden in the shade of the Albezia tree in summer, listening to the stream gurgling and church bells striking every hour (also cow bells occasionally). Must go there again soon...
Jennie Ensor
My second novel is nearly done and dusted (I can hear a distant chuckle from somewhere). It’s a dark and disturbing psychological suspense novel, and I know in advance that it won’t be for everyone.
Jennie Ensor
Blind Side is about the obsessive side of love and ‘the enemy within’ – whether oneself, another person or a community. It asks to what extent one can really know anyone else, even if one has known them for a long time.
I’ve long been fascinated by people who appear normal on the surface but who have another completely different, secretive and possibly dangerous side to them. In 2005, after I read that the perpetrators of the London suicide bombings were all brought up in Yorkshire, I had to put those events into my novel.
I’ve long been fascinated by people who appear normal on the surface but who have another completely different, secretive and possibly dangerous side to them. In 2005, after I read that the perpetrators of the London suicide bombings were all brought up in Yorkshire, I had to put those events into my novel.
Jennie Ensor
I've not had many mysteries in my life so far - or perhaps I've just not noticed. From now on I will be looking out for them.
One thing that might count, though. My mother used to 'channel' spirits, so she said, though I've never believed in that, or life after death. Before she died she gave me tape recordings of some sessions. The voice on it is hers yet sounds totally unlike her. That has always been inexplicable to me. A mystery that is unlikely to be solved, unless...
One thing that might count, though. My mother used to 'channel' spirits, so she said, though I've never believed in that, or life after death. Before she died she gave me tape recordings of some sessions. The voice on it is hers yet sounds totally unlike her. That has always been inexplicable to me. A mystery that is unlikely to be solved, unless...
Jennie Ensor
Just get on with it
Jennie Ensor
Being able to express what's most important to me in words to (hopefully) lots of people - and getting money for it! Freedom to do what I want when. To go off on wacky research trips. To not have to get on the tube to an office everyday.
Jennie Ensor
So far I've not really had that. When I'm in full flow on a novel the problem is stopping :)
I like to write nearly everyday - from after breakfast until lunch or tea or someone at the door. If not fully into writing stage of a novel, then some of the early time can be spent writing exercises/poetry/short stories and the later time on plotting or musing about characters or research.
I like to write nearly everyday - from after breakfast until lunch or tea or someone at the door. If not fully into writing stage of a novel, then some of the early time can be spent writing exercises/poetry/short stories and the later time on plotting or musing about characters or research.
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