A asked Jodi Taylor:

Cheers Jodi! I am sure you've been asked this before, but I couldn't easily find an answer, and I'd rather ask you than my friend Echo (aka ChatGPT). What made you decide to start writing at age 60?

Jodi Taylor I was living and working in Turkey and I got the chance to retire. A chance to lie around in the sun and do nothing. Which was wonderful for three weeks and then I was bored so I thought I'd see if I could write a book. There was no intention to publish - I just wanted to see if I had the mental discipline. And then some friends took me to lunch in the fish market and there was wine and they persuaded me to self publish Just One Damned Thing After Another on Amazon. I didn't have a clue what I was doing but the gods of publishing must have been smiling on me because it did rather well. No one tells you how addictive writing is - and forty novels and short stories later I'm coming to the conclusion I can't stop. I shall probably still be banging away on my laptop as they lower me into my grave!

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