Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Blog Tour: Glamor Girl by Vera Jane Cook #blogtour #interview #giveaway #historicalfiction #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @verajanecook

 



Historical Fiction

Date Published: 10-06-2021

Publisher: Indies United



Escaping from her childhood, Sheela, flees her aunt's motel where she is forced to work as a cleaning maid and provide ‘favors’ for wealthy guests and winds up in Miami in Kit Malone's fancy brothel. Beautiful and stately, Sheela becomes a high-class prostitute, a millionaire’s mistress and a Billy Rose showgirl. When she meets the love of her life in Manhattan, the charming but naïve Julius Clark, life blossoms into something both frightening and titillating. But when Sheela gives birth to her daughter, Fanny, it is this shadowy and stormy relationship that alters the course of both of their destinies and defines their future.




Interview

Is There a Message in Your Novel That You Want Readers to Grasp? Just that life was very different in the 1930s, especially for women. Sometimes the choices we make are pretty much chosen for us because of circumstances. I think Sheela’s determination for survival is admirable.

 

 

 

Is there anything you find particularly challenging in your writing? Yes, it is always a challenge to keep pulling the story out, perfecting it and giving the language as much poetry as possible.

 

 

 

How many books have you written, and which is your favorite? I really favor all of them but maybe there’s a special place in my heart for The Story of Sassy Sweetwater and Annabel Horton and the Black Witch of Pau. I have written 15 novels.

 

 

 

 

If You had the chance to cast your main character from Hollywood today, who would you pick and why? Angelina Jolie would make a perfect Sheela. She has beauty but also a special look about her, a humor and depth and wisdom.

 

 

 

When did you begin writing? I always wrote but not novels, not until I was fifty.

 

 

 

How long did it take to complete your first book? One glorious year

 

 

 

Did you have an author who inspired you to become a writer? So many but mostly the Victorian writers at first. But I admire so many contemporary writers now, mostly female.

 

 

 

What is your favorite part of the writing process? Beginning a novel and letting the story take shape

 

 

 

Describe your latest book in 4 words.

Dangerous, sad, eccentric and exciting

 

 

Can you share a little bit about your current work or what is in the future for your writing? I have a fantasy title coming out in January. Book Three of The Fourniers will be out next spring followed by a science fiction novel and four women’s fiction.

 



About the Author

Vera Jane Cook was born in New York City and has been a city girl ever since. As an only child, she turned to reading novels at an early age and was deeply influenced by an eclectic group of authors. Before Jane became a writer, she worked in the professional theatre and appeared on television, in regional theatre, film and off Broadway.

At the age of fifty Jane began to write novels. Some of her titles include Dancing Backward in Paradise, winner of an Eric Hoffer Award for publishing excellence and an Indie Excellence Award for notable new fiction, 2007. The Story of Sassy Sweetwater and Dancing Backward in Paradise received 5 Star ForeWord Clarion Reviews and The Story of Sassy Sweetwater was named a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards. She has published in ESL Magazine, Christopher Street Magazine and has written early childhood curriculum for Weekly Reader and McGraw Hill.

Jane still lives on the upper west side of Manhattan right near Riverside Park where she takes her delightful dogs for a jog, Peanut and Carly. She comes home to her spouse of thirty years and her two cats, Sassy and Sweetie Pie.


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