Jeanne A. Moore
Welcome! This weeks Author of the Week is Jeanne A. Moore. Jeanne discovered her love of writing later on in life but she goes to prove you're never too old to follow your dreams!
Hello Jeanne, welcome to the author of the week interview, it's wonderful to meet you. Let's start with learning a little about you.
First of all, before I answer this question, I’d like to thank you for interviewing me. It’s a pleasure. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles and moved to Honolulu in 1979. For most of the time I’ve been here, I’ve lived by myself and now my sister and I live together. In addition to writing, my hobbies are reading, crocheting, and when the COVID restrictions are gone, socializing with my retired friends at the food court at the Ala Moana Center, the big shopping mall in Honolulu.
How wonderful to live in Honolulu, I think I should be jealous! Can you tell me about your books Jeanne?
My books are all collections of short stores, with the exception if Aunt Zelda and the Real Santa, which is a single short story. Those books are:
Romance in a Flash (eBook only)
Romance on the Run (eBook and paperback)
Aunt Zelda and the Real Santa (e-book only; short story)
Stories of Hope (eBook and paperback)
Love Speaks Softly to the Heart (eBook and paperback)
What encouraged you to write and do you hold another job as well?
I’ve always enjoyed writing, but never pursued in until after I retired. I retired at the beginning of 2015. After a couple of years of hanging out with my retired friends at the food court, I felt like I was at loose ends and wasn’t doing anything that was mine. So, I began pursuing my gift for writing – which I always said I didn’t have time for when I was working an 8:00 – to – 5:00 office job. Having writing to focus on balanced the time I spent socializing and gave a balance to my life.
At least you're now sharing your works with the world! What’s the main thing you love and hate about writing?
I love creating characters and a world that becomes almost real to me. And I love doing historical research, which is something I learned to do and love when I was researching my family’s genealogy. Although I generally don’t mind editing, at times it does get tedious. And I really don’t like being between writing projects. I love the creative process that writing involves.
I hate editing lol. You're more patient than me! Who is the best character you’ve ever written, and why?
I love all my characters, my favorite one is Lucy Mae Logan in Left Holding the Bag in my short story collection Stories of Hope. She’s independent and overcomes a major setback with determination and style.
I wonder how much of Lucy Mae is based on you? Who’s the character who gave you nightmares?
That would be Owen Holt in The Limelight, one of my works in progress. He’s very strange and he’s also an arsonist.
https://www.elizabethnharris.net/post...
Hello Jeanne, welcome to the author of the week interview, it's wonderful to meet you. Let's start with learning a little about you.
First of all, before I answer this question, I’d like to thank you for interviewing me. It’s a pleasure. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles and moved to Honolulu in 1979. For most of the time I’ve been here, I’ve lived by myself and now my sister and I live together. In addition to writing, my hobbies are reading, crocheting, and when the COVID restrictions are gone, socializing with my retired friends at the food court at the Ala Moana Center, the big shopping mall in Honolulu.
How wonderful to live in Honolulu, I think I should be jealous! Can you tell me about your books Jeanne?
My books are all collections of short stores, with the exception if Aunt Zelda and the Real Santa, which is a single short story. Those books are:
Romance in a Flash (eBook only)
Romance on the Run (eBook and paperback)
Aunt Zelda and the Real Santa (e-book only; short story)
Stories of Hope (eBook and paperback)
Love Speaks Softly to the Heart (eBook and paperback)
What encouraged you to write and do you hold another job as well?
I’ve always enjoyed writing, but never pursued in until after I retired. I retired at the beginning of 2015. After a couple of years of hanging out with my retired friends at the food court, I felt like I was at loose ends and wasn’t doing anything that was mine. So, I began pursuing my gift for writing – which I always said I didn’t have time for when I was working an 8:00 – to – 5:00 office job. Having writing to focus on balanced the time I spent socializing and gave a balance to my life.
At least you're now sharing your works with the world! What’s the main thing you love and hate about writing?
I love creating characters and a world that becomes almost real to me. And I love doing historical research, which is something I learned to do and love when I was researching my family’s genealogy. Although I generally don’t mind editing, at times it does get tedious. And I really don’t like being between writing projects. I love the creative process that writing involves.
I hate editing lol. You're more patient than me! Who is the best character you’ve ever written, and why?
I love all my characters, my favorite one is Lucy Mae Logan in Left Holding the Bag in my short story collection Stories of Hope. She’s independent and overcomes a major setback with determination and style.
I wonder how much of Lucy Mae is based on you? Who’s the character who gave you nightmares?
That would be Owen Holt in The Limelight, one of my works in progress. He’s very strange and he’s also an arsonist.
https://www.elizabethnharris.net/post...
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