Julie Pennington
Small midwestern town
USA
Welcome to Vision and Verse, Julie. What have you written?
Traffic: A Jessica Streeter Murder Mystery
What is your favorite genre to write?
Mysteries
Favorite food.
Too many to choose from! I like Mexican, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Italian, chocolate, a good steak, seafood.
Tea or coffee?
Tea, definitely. This is a habit I picked up when in the former British colonies.
Pizza or ice cream?
I burned out on pizza in high school, so it has to be ice cream.
Wine or beer or soda or what?
Tea.
Where would you like to visit?
I more than anything to visit Australia. Something about refusing to be tamed draws me.
Do you listen to music when you write?
No, I would be to distracted.
What makes you laugh?
A comedy, plays on words make me laugh.
Do you plan out your book with outlines and notecards? Or just write?
I just write. I wish I had the discipline to outline. It would save a ton of rewrites.
Describe your perfect evening.
My perfect evening would involve loved ones and horses. Riding with my besties would be high on the list.
Where do you get your inspiration?
The inspiration for my novels comes from real world events. I am passionate about giving a voice to those who have been silenced.
What do you do when you get a writer's block?
I have to walk away and take a break. When I relax, that’s when I have a breakthrough.
Who is your favorite author?
That would be a tossup between James Grippando and Michael Connelly
What would you do for a living if you weren’t a writer?
I would be working a boring corporate job as an auditor.
Who is the one person who has influenced your personal life the most and why?
Vera Hrabak, a former coworker. She taught me more about being a woman than my own mother. She is a beautiful woman.
If you could sit down and have a conversation with ONE person, living or dead, real or fictional, who would it be and why?
That would have to be the woman caught in adultery that the pharisees wanted to stone. I want to ask her if it really was the pharisees that were “with” her, and then had the audacity to drag her out in public and demand she be stoned.
What advice would you give someone who aspired to be a writer?
Spend about a year researching and preparing to launch your book. The launch, marketing, and advertising take about as much time as the writing.
Do you have some links for us to follow you?
www.authorjuliepennington.com
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082943793412
https://author.amazon.com/home
https://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Julie-Pennington-ebook/dp/B0CG9TCQ2D
Bodies are stacking up in Riverbend, a Midwest town known for its scenic beauty and its annual fall festival.
It’s also known as the place where you can get away with murder.
Life returned to normal when the new Riverbend Police Chief took over, but now people are disappearing. Close friends and family of the vanished still cling to the hope of finding their loved ones alive.
Everyone else believes that whomever is responsible for the disappearances has gotten better at their macabre body hiding ability.
Devastated after two of her high school students vanished, Bethany, the Riverbend School Nurse, launches an investigation. The entire town is on edge. Who will be next? Will Bethany find her students alive? Will Jessica be able to keep her best friend from being consumed by the disappearances? Or will they fall prey to a depraved maniac?
About the Author:
Prior to launching her publishing career, Julie Pennington was a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, and Certified Fraud Examiner.
Throughout her career, she investigated a number of fraud cases, including assisting an area police department with a fraud case as a citizen volunteer. On another case, she helped a client who was experiencing great losses as a result of embezzlement. She determined how the culprit was getting the money and put safeguards in place to stop the losses. When the culprit learned he was cut off from the money, which he used to support his drug habit, he became enraged and threatened the client with a loaded handgun. Fortunately, the client came out of the incident unharmed and the culprit got drug treatment.
She taught auditing and accounting as an adjunct professor. She has worked in over 25 countries in humanitarian relief and development, mostly in Africa but also in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
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