I am a massive fan of Nicky's writing and when I was offered the opportunity to read Dead Hope when it was just written I jumped at the chance! And, I'm so glad I did! Dead Hope is of course a new genre for Nicky. I bet you are all as curious as I am about this. So, without further ado lets hear from the amazing Nicky Wells herself!!

AUTHOR INTERVIEW! 

 

Tell your readers about the new book!

Great question; I’ve actually been wondering the same! It wasn’t planned. I didn’t sit down one day and thought to myself, you know, Nicky, you should really write a thriller. Which is ironic, really, given that I read crime and thriller by the truckload, probably more so than romance. But I digress.So I had this idea for a book: a rock star abandons his normal life and goes under cover in an office job like a normal person. Cue all sorts of romantic comedy moments as he discovers true love whilst incognito. That was the idea. Except when I started planning in depth, I was missing the answer to one critical question: how did he get there? What would have caused him to go under cover into a “normal” life? I didn’t have a good answer, so I went back to the drawing board. And suddenly, all manner of dark ideas came out, mostly fuelled by the concept of “witness protection.” A suspense theme took hold and transformed my rock star hero into the daughter of a rock star. So far, so good. However—when I started writing, the suspense took over and I literally was swept away by the thrill of it all. The result: DEAD HOPE.

Hmmm…. Can I come back and answer that when I see how DEAD HOPE is doing? No, but seriously: I’m not sure. I’ve had a long and hard debate with myself (and the lovely JB Johnston of Brook Cottage Books, incidentally) about the pros and cons of writing my new genre under a different name, starting over completely. As you can see, I decided against it. I felt my existing readers would find enough romance in the book to make it appealing to them, and that the thriller was non-gory enough to engage them even if it was perhaps slightly out of their normal reading comfort zone. At the same time, I think the suspense and crime elements will draw in a whole new audience… but as I said, the proof of the pudding will be in the (metaphorical) eating. I’ll tell you how it’s going when I release my next thriller!
Cat: Jayne Wisener http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2479184/
Absolutely. I’ve got two in the queue; one is potentially the sequel to Seven Years Bad Sex (tentatively titled Seven Years No Sex, namely after our happy couple have a baby….); and then I’ve got a story in my head about this university romance gone wrong where the unhappy couple bump into each other many, many years later without recognising each other… and fall in love all over again. Watch this space (but I’ve got to get some more thrillers out of my system first…)
I’m so glad you asked because I’ve got not one but two more thrillers on the go right at this moment! A while back, I had an idea for a cracking crime thriller. It came to me on the way into town, and by the time I got home, I had a second complete idea in my head interpreting the same writing blog in a radically different way. I blogged about it at the time: https://nickywells.com/2016/06/09/the-handwritten-concept-stands-twoinonethrillerproject/