Q&A with Jessie Terwilliger discussion

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I think the cover is cool!!!

I think the cover is cool too!

Tell us more about the book, for example how did you think of having as a main character a stripper wanting to become a cop (quite original)?

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.

I also like the cover, and your friend is in good shape! :0)

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.

Well it paid off! She sounds about my size, I am tiny, about 5 feet and about 90 punds...so way to go for us tiny gals!(nothing against big girls either )

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

well I think it is awesome...I can't wait for my copy to arrive, just reading the first several chapters was a tease...... :0)~

How did you choose the name Marina?

(I've always been curious about the way writers chose their characters' names -- does it have to just sound nice? does it have to represent the character? does it have a deeper meaning? etc. )

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.

I'm just wondering where can I go to buy your book, I really I want to read it.

Kym,
Bombshell is a page turning all night read. You will NOT be dissapointed. I loved this book!
Sheri