Jessie Terwilliger’s Comments (group member since Feb 11, 2009)

Jessie Terwilliger’s comments from the Q&A with Jessie Terwilliger group.

I also now have six copies which have no picture on the cover due to a printing defect that I am selling signed for only $5 with free shipping. If you're interested, go to http://jessie-terwilliger.com for details.

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Marina is a name that I heard on a blog I think, it's some lady's daughter. It stuck. How I usually pick names though is if the character is particularly something, like cheerful or maybe sinister or something, I might go onto a baby name website and search the meaning and choose from the list of names that come up. The best example of this is Golden Dawn, because as it is mentioned the name Danica means Golden Dawn "in some other language."

Another way I choose names for secondary characters is I just flip through a baby name book until I come upon something I like.

My husband actually chose Marina's last name, "Hudson," because of the river. He thought it fit, and hey, why not.

She has the same measurements as Marina in the book. Marina is 90% based off of her.

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The young adult novel is going to be about a boy who wears a trench coat and goes to high school and from the outside appears to be your generic composite of "the school shooter." But really, he's just weird and kind and he enjoys writing. His friends that he hangs out with at lunch are all misfits, two of which are girls who call themselves "vampires," and not the Edward Cullen kind but the actual normal human kids who suck each other's scabs kind. He steals everyone's diaries from their backpacks one day and reads them because he's pissed at them for something, and ends up uncovering something alarming that is about to unfold, and he's got a one in a million chance to stop it.

Basically, anyway.

The only reason I'm calling it young adult is because there wont be any sex or swearing in it, sort of like Terwilliger-Lite. It's more appropriate for younger kids to read than my other works which are pretty graphic, but adults will be able to enjoy it as well.

Yes but right now I'm not sure when this book will be written. Right now I am working on my young adult novel which is planned for release next April, followed by the second book in the Bombshell series. After that will either be The Fool on the Hill or Girls Are Pretty, which is a side story which happens to contain a character from the third Bombshell book but has nothing to do with the Bombshell storyline.

Weird, I know, but it all works out. Perhaps another two or three years for Fool.

Well she was in gymnastics for quite a long time, which she ended up translating into her stage show. She's about 4'11 and she weighs like 89 pounds soaking wet. Not really many places to hide fat.

There is a sequel to be written which will take place 15 years in the future. Dani's a teenager at that point and she speaks Spanish as a second language but doesn't know why.

The book will largely go back into the past of the Kade family, what happened to make Brooke and her brother start off so dysfunctional in life, and why Brooke turned out so normal while Steven seemed to be screwed up in every way. The current working title is "The Fool on the Hill," like the Beatles song. If you read Golden Dawn closely enough, you might be able to figure out who the fool is. He was only mentioned once in passing, but he gets a lot more attention in the second book.

It's actually straight out of real life. A very good friend of mine was a stripper for a few years, but the entire time she was working the clubs she was trying so hard to stay away from the prostitution and drugs that were running rampant basically, and she was putting in applications all over for different law enforcement agencies. But money calls, and when she would get the chance to start the hiring process, she would end up doing a show on the road or going to work at a club in another state where she had a stripper friend who was making good in tips.

Now she has quit stripping, and is on her way to becoming a deputy coroner. In my book, the character actually wants to work her way up to bomb squad.

And FYI, the tummy belongs to the real Bombshell, the friend I mentioned. That's her pistol charm and everything.

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