Q&A with Jill Davis about The Safety of Secrets

This is really a good video/promo for you. Thanks you for sharing it.

Very nice! :)

Again you have done a great job.

It was nice meeting you Delaune!

Great interview...nice meeting you.

Great interview.

It is lovely seeing you on video. Your wonderful personality shines through. I am always fascinated listening to a writer's "process". I was interested to hear that you write your pages longhand first. Some say the heart connects easier to the hand than the keyboard? What is the most surprising thing to YOU about your own process?

Delaune,
You sound as warm and delightful in person as your writing. Thanks for sharing about your process. I'm curious the nuances you notice between ink vs. PC. I write some of my stories by hand but the novels are in the computer. Although some scenes may come to me when I'm off sight and have a note pad handy.

I like your cousin Andre's advice which I'm paraphrasing, "A sentence doesn't know time." I think a story doesn't either and each one seems to have it's own gestation.

That's interesting that your first two novels had the deadline of a child being born. It must feel so different working on the third without being pregnant.

My first one came out in a year and a half. My second took nine months as my agent grew anxious to have it. Once he had it, then he couldn't sell it. That's another story.

My third one that's in process has had many stops and starts, so the time frame is harder to figure out.
Julie