#WriterWednesday with Jacquie Wilvers
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I’d like to welcome Jacquie Wilvers to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
Things you need for your writing sessions: A cup of tea and chewing gum.
Things that hamper your writing: My cell phone, when it’s in the room with me.
Something you’re really good at: Delegating.
Something you’re really bad at: Decluttering my desk.
The last thing you ordered online: Slippers
The last thing you regret buying: Itchy wool sweater.
Favorite places you’ve been: Venice, Pompeii, Jerusalem, Petra, Cairo.
Places you never want to go to again: The city of Edfu.
Favorite books (or genre): Mysteries.
Books you wouldn’t buy: Horror.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Fly in an open cockpit biplane.
Something you chickened out from doing: Flying upside down in the open cockpit biplane.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: May I have your autograph?
The craziest thing a reader said to you: “You’re not the person I thought you were” after reading my gritty crime fiction short story, Underbelly.
The first 8-track, record, cassette, or CD you ever bought: Hotel California.
A type of music that’s not your cup of tea: Rap.
My favorite book as a child: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
A book I’ve read more than once: The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama.
Your favorite movie as a child: Mary Poppins.
A movie that kept you awake at night as a kid: Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte.
About Jacquie:
Jacquie’s debut short story, “Underbelly,” appears in Angel City Beat, a Los Angeles mystery anthology. This gritty fictional story takes the reader on a journey of betrayal and murder inside the Hollywood film industry. In the niche world of screenwriting, the players are known and the competition fierce. When a talented newcomer appears seeking fortune, the plot turns murderous. Anything goes to get a hit film made.
The Angel City Beat anthology includes stories about life in Los Angeles. Hidden beneath its shiny surface are misdeeds, miscreants, and murderers. Angel City Beat shows life behind the plastic smiles of the rich and famous, the desperate pleas of the overlooked, and the promises of dreams forgotten. Angel City Beat is the beat of a city told by those who love her and can be found on Amazon.
Jacquie also recently finished writing her first book-length cozy mystery, A Venetian Moonlight Murder, which was inspired by a visit to the City of Lovers, Venice, Italy. She is currently polishing the manuscript for submission later in 2025.
A long-time resident of Long Beach, CA, Jacquie became an early mystery fan when she discovered Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, and the Hardy Boys. She is a member of Sisters in Crime – Los Angeles, Orange County, and Guppy chapters. She is also a member of California Writer’s Club Orange County and the Author’s Guild.
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Website/Newsletter Sign-up: http://jacquiewilvers.com
She earned a BA in newspaper journalism, an MA in theater arts management, and an MPA in Public Policy and Administration. Jacquie worked as a newspaper reporter, aerospace publication editor, and public education grant writer. She likes to create characters who misbehave and delights in reading other writers who do the same. She enjoys traveling, reading mysteries and historical novels, and spending time with friends and family.
The SinC Los Angeles Chapter has arranged for an official book launch of Angel City Beat. It will be at Vroman’s bookstore in Pasadena on Monday, February 24, at 7 p.m.
