{"id":346,"date":"2020-10-28T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2020-09-28T09:36:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T08:36:30","slug":"author-spotlight-with-jethro-weyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Author spotlight with Jethro Weyman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Author Q&amp;A with Jethro Weyman<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*This post contains affiliate links*<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-192\" src=\"https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Author-Spotlight-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Author-Spotlight-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Author-Spotlight-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Author-Spotlight-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/elizabethhollandauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Author-Spotlight.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Jethro, is another author that I met on Twitter and I had the pleasure of reading his collection of short stories, Bang to Begin.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=elizabethholl-21&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=GB&amp;placement=B089335PCV&amp;asins=B089335PCV&amp;linkId=a16e71e606910baf6464104f4cae429f&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=ehollandautho-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B089335PCV&amp;asins=B089335PCV&amp;linkId=b8744153f4b2dac4ca462d830094c08a&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=false&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>A roller-coaster of strange going-ons. The author successfully writes some spine chilling stories to get you thinking. I found a few parts a little disturbing (I&#8217;m a huge wimp) and yet I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to put the book down. If you&#8217;re looking for something to get you thinking and to thrill you then this book is for you!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Jethro, would you like to tell us about yourself and your writing?<\/b><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Not really&#8230; Oh go on then.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m currently living in Birmingham, England and working as a physiotherapist, specialising in neurology. I don&#8217;t know if that makes me a certain kind of person that can be seen in my writing, but I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised. I&#8217;m from Hertfordshire originally, so often get told I have a posh accent by Brummie and Black Country folk! It&#8217;s not though&#8230; it&#8217;s just a bit Southern!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I like cycling, bouldering, very occasional yoga these days and I can sometimes be found twiddling my thumbs&#8230; and beneath those thumbs, a ps4 controller can be found.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I started writing about 2 1\/2 -3 years ago because I couldn&#8217;t get an idea for a scene out of my head&#8230; This became the prologue in my first book (and has since become a darling I&#8217;ve had to kill \ud83d\ude41 ). I wrote my full first novel without really knowing what I was doing. And I&#8217;m still querying it, so that&#8217;s probably still the case.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ve since written another novel and a hell of a lot of tweets, some of which I&#8217;ve collated into a collection called Two Halves of the Candle. I&#8217;ve written a fair few longer, but still short, short stories as well and have adapted some of these to become Bang to Begin.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ve also written a screenplay&#8230; again without knowing what I was doing, but I&#8217;m using this first example as a learning opportunity, and hopefully creating something marketable in the process.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>What aspect of writing a book do you find the most difficult?<\/b><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;\">I think one of the most challenging parts for me, especially in novel writing, is trying to stay on topic. I am definitely a pantser, I sometimes try to fool myself into believing otherwise by writing up an outline, but I really struggle to keep to them. This means an idea will pop up out of nowhere and I&#8217;ll have to go with it, because that&#8217;s where my head&#8217;s taken me and I get too excited about it. The main problem with this is usually that I have to retrace my steps and fix all of the plot holes that I&#8217;ve inadvertently caused.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;\">And I suppose on top of this, it&#8217;s just dividing my time between writing, my personal life and my other hobbies.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Where did the inspiration for Bang to Begin come from?<\/b><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">This is a really difficult question. As I mentioned before, Bang to Begin is made up of short stories and, originally, they were exactly that &#8211; standalone short stories (written for a subscription-based website called Channillo). It wasn&#8217;t until I got to the sixth (I think) chapter &#8220;The Death of Fate&#8221; that I started to think of it more as an interlinking collective. This chapter \/ story is what underpins the rest of the book.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I have a tendency to philosophise about things, so the idea that fate could be an entity rather than a concept appealed to me on some level. And that this concept may only be a specific person&#8217;s perception gave me another layer to work with.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;\">The whole premise was built around this and layered further with concepts influenced, perhaps, by Black Mirror or any number of other sci-fi \/ fantasy \/ horror programmes I&#8217;ve watched and absorbed.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;\">I love trying my hand at writing different genres and linking them together makes it all the more enjoyable.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Where\u2019s your favourite place to write?<\/b><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">You know, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve found my favourite place yet. I&#8217;m quite lazy when it comes to this and have a tendency to just sit on my sofa where the laptop is already plugged in and ready to go.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I do write by hand as well sometimes, and I much prefer to do this outside when it&#8217;s sunny&#8230; but I&#8217;m often tempted by my bike when the weather&#8217;s good as well. I think my perfect place would be a beach cabin or somewhere by a waterfall. So, if you could organise that for me, that would be great, thanks<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>How has social media influenced\/ affected your writing?<\/b><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I don&#8217;t think social media itself has influenced my writing, but there are definitely a lot of really helpful people out there who have pointed me in the right direction. Before Twitter, I was part of a writing forum on a website which has now become Jericho Writers. There was an amazingly helpful (and brutally honest) bunch of writers on there. We unfortunately got split up, to a certain extent, following the name change and the need to start paying for access. They taught me a lot of what I know today about writing and I still have contact with a couple of them.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I suppose, writing tweet-sized stories, and particularly the #vss365 prompt, have made me think about writing in a different way as well. Tightening every sentence and squeezing as much information into as short a space as possible&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure whether this has made my writing better or worse, but it&#8217;s definitely made it different. I think it&#8217;s made me better for the most part&#8230; but it does take a while to transition away from it again if you&#8217;ve only been writing 280 characters for a while.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b> How do you approach writing a new book?<\/b><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;\">I tend to have a few ideas knocking around either in my head or noted down, if I&#8217;ve not had them when in the shower or driving or some other awkward time.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;\">Like I said before, I&#8217;m a pantser at heart, so generally: I write 3-4 chapters, have an existential crisis, plot the rest of *a* story, pretend I&#8217;m using the plot for a while, deviate entirely from it subconsciously at first and then consciously after acceptance sets in and I just pants the rest of it with occasional glances at what could have been.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;\">I have started a sequel for my second novel though, which I&#8217;ve had to pay more attention to&#8230; so maybe this will be the one that changes me.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;\">I very much doubt that though! \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=ehollandautho-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B07L2WLQXW&amp;asins=B07L2WLQXW&amp;linkId=b9e15ff44586a33a798e5eda0d4e1617&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=false&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=elizabethholl-21&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=GB&amp;placement=B07L2WLQXW&amp;asins=B07L2WLQXW&amp;linkId=6d899498c2effeb4fc16f8eff23f8adf&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeymanWrites\">You can find Jethro on Twitter.<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Q&amp;A with Jethro Weyman *This post contains affiliate links* Jethro, is another author that I met on Twitter and I had the pleasure of reading his collection of short stories, Bang to Begin. A roller-coaster of strange going-ons. The author successfully writes some spine chilling stories to get you thinking. I found a few parts a little disturbing (I&#8217;m a huge wimp) and yet I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to put the book down. 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