Friday 1 June 2018
Normal Dating by Jan Caston Series: The Normal Series # 1
Release Date: 26th October 2017
Publisher: Brackenbrae and Ashby
Publisher: Brackenbrae and Ashby
Genres: Romantic Comedy
Today on the blog we have the lovely Jan Caston with a super author interview. Read on to find out more about Jan and her latest book!
Facebook: Jan Caston and Jan Caston Novelist - https://www.facebook.com/jancastonnovelist
Love is in the air at Olivia’s
boozy dinner party. Who is this Ambrose everyone’s talking about? Vera can’t
even remember him being there.
She can remember people moaning about how difficult it is to meet someone nice nowadays.
And why is Olivia, normally the Town Gossip, being suspiciously silent? Is it her love life, or something far more serious?
When Olivia comes up with a crazy plan to open The Normal Dating Agency to save the dress shop she runs with her sister, Angelina, from bankruptcy... and persuades Vera to run it, none of the three friends anticipate where love will strike next...
... but that's what happens with NORMAL DATING.
She can remember people moaning about how difficult it is to meet someone nice nowadays.
And why is Olivia, normally the Town Gossip, being suspiciously silent? Is it her love life, or something far more serious?
When Olivia comes up with a crazy plan to open The Normal Dating Agency to save the dress shop she runs with her sister, Angelina, from bankruptcy... and persuades Vera to run it, none of the three friends anticipate where love will strike next...
... but that's what happens with NORMAL DATING.
Today on the blog we have the lovely Jan Caston with a super author interview. Read on to find out more about Jan and her latest book!
AUTHOR INTERVIEW
Do you write under your real name or is this a pen name you
use?
Pen Name
Where are you from?
The beautiful Channel Island of Jersey
List 3 interesting facts about yourself.
I’m from a
left-handed family, which is why I have a left-handed kitchen.
In my teens I had a longstanding love affair with a man who
went on to be a major rock star. I left him for a butcher. Some might say I
followed my heart and not my head because even today he’s pretty gorgeous. I
have no idea where the butcher is now!
I’ve been bitten by a lion. Ask to see the scar if ever you
meet me.
What was the first thing you ever had published?
A poem in
the Parish magazine when I was 10
Do you have a writing routine?
Yes/ no/ perhaps? I am very disciplined as I also work as a
Film Producer/Storyliner for www.nelsonnutmegpictures.com
. Deadlines are my curse and my master. Writing novels follows a different set
of rules, but does mean I have more time to think things through.
Do you have any writing rituals?
Yes! I set the alarm on my smartphone for every 45
minutes when I am writing. When it sounds, I stop writing either to go and do
something else or I make yet another cup of tea. Writers need regular breaks
away from the keyboard.
Where did the idea for your most recent book come from?
I
was at a very boozy dinner party when people were moaning about how hard it was
to find a decent date nowadays. A friend and I said we’d set up a dating
agency. One of the fellas immediately elected himself Managing Director as he
saw a real financial return. Needless to say the real dating agency never
happened, but it was the basis of the story of Normal Dating. Voila!
Who was the first person you shared your book with?
My
writer friend Gwyn GB (author of Islands, Lonely Hearts and out soon, Home
Help). We act as development editors for one another as we have trust and an
excellent rapport.
Do you have a current work in progress?
The follow on book
to Normal Dating (Book 1) in The Normal Series - New Normal (Book 2) was first
draft completed in May 18 and is now going through editing. Normal Service
(Book 3) is in final stage research. I am also Executive Producer for a new
live action British family film called Future TX www.futuretx.co.uk which is being
shot in Dorset in August 2018.
Do you have any advice for budding authors?
Write for
yourself! Develop your own voice! Write free! And only when you are finally satisfied
your work says all you want it to say, then show it to others.
Thank you Jan! I for one am totally intrigued by the rock star and the lion! I need to know more!
ABOUT JAN CASTON
Jan Caston is a screenwriter, producer, and novelist
with a whacky sense of humour and a thumping great sense of writing propriety.
In her film work, Jan works alongside British
writers/director Tim Clague and Danny Stack at Nelson Nutmeg Pictures Limited.
They made the live action family film: Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg? (PG 2015)
which premiered at BFI LFF 2015 and which has subsequently sold around the
world. In 2018 they will make a new family sci-fi adventure – Future TX – a
co-production with Templeheart Films.
In her novels, Brackenbrae and Ashby published the
Romantic Comedy for a more mature woman - Normal Dating - in October 2017, with
two more books in the series to follow.
Jan explains why she is able to both write for a
families with children, and also more racily for the more mature women. ‘It’s
all about knowing what is appropriate for different audiences. That means
knowing people, and what they want at different stages of their lives, really
well. Why do I love writing family entertainment so much? Because I am just
like the women about whom I write. Theirs is the life I’ve lived; one filled
equally with laughter and drama in equal measure. There’s been a lot of
adventure and mishap in my life. From flying Concorde to being broke and
slumming it, I have done so many things. To me, that’s what life is all about –
Living it! No matter what!’close to my heart.
Twitter @jancaston
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