(a.k.a. J.T. Colgan and Jane Beaton)
Award Winning British Chick-Lit Author (of Romantic Comedies) & SciFi Novelist
SittieCates: Hello, Jenny Colgan! Glad to have you here at my blog.
Jenny Colgan: Lovely to be here!
SittieCates: Thank you for accepting my request for an Author Interview with you. I'm a huge fan of yours!
For the first question, I’ve gathered that you were a cartoonist and a stand-up comic before. What inspired you to move to a different path, to write novels instead?
Jenny Colgan: Total and utter failure in those other two. Very few professional writers don't experience a LOT of failure when they start out. I really did want to be a professional cartoonist like Charles Schultz, but there aren't many of them.
SittieCates: Every published author has an interesting story of that first time their works got published. Could you tell us your experience, what you’ve felt or did when word reached you that your first novel, Amanda’s Wedding, was scheduled to be published?
Jenny Colgan: Hah, yes, I remember the phone ringing as I was coming in to the office and I knew it was going to be my agent, and that the phone call was going to change everything forever. It was very, very heady.