Patricia Bradley Interview

Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.
A. I share my home with my rescue kitty Suzy in a small Northeast Mississippi town that’s located four miles from Tennessee and twenty miles from Alabama. When I’m not writing, you’ll usually find me in the pottery room making mugs or porcelain jewelry.

Q: When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
A. When I was thirty-five and these people came to live in my head. Up until then, I was an avid reader.

Q: What do you write and why this genre?
A. I love writing mystery and romantic suspense, I guess because that’s what I’ve always read, starting with Nancy Drew.

Q: Do you base your characters on people you know or are they totally made up?
A: I can’t say they are totally made up. I might take a little bit of one person and a touch of someone else and combine it for a character.

Q: Would you tell us about your current book release DELAYED JUSTICE?
A: In one week, the wrong man will be executed for murder.

It’s been nineteen years since TV crime reporter Andi Hollister’s sister was murdered. The confessed killer is behind bars and the execution date is looming. But when a letter surfaces stating that the condemned killer didn’t actually do it, Detective Will Kincade of the Memphis Cold Case Unit will stop at nothing to help Andi get to the bottom of it. After all, this case is personal: the person who confessed to the crime is Will’s cousin. They have less than a week to find the real killer before the wrong person is executed. But much can be accomplished in that week—including uncovering police corruption, running for your life, and falling in love.

Q: Where did the idea for this story come from?
A. It’s really hard to say where the idea came from. I had a germ of an idea about blood diamonds, and I began playing what if– and it went from there.

Q: Tell us a little about your main character and how you developed him/her.
A: Andi is my heroine, and I knew when I met her she was impulsive and daring—she had something to prove. And she was snarky. ? I actually had to tone her down a little, make her a little softer, but that’s not unusual for me when I create my heroines.

Q: Would you share with us what you are working on now?
A. I’m working on another Memphis Cold Case novel—Justice Buried. It’s set at the Pink Palace and involves a heroine who is a hacker and a cat burglar—all legal, of course. But she gets into a lot of trouble before that information comes out. By then she has a murderer on her trail after she stumbles over a crime committed twenty-eight years earlier that is tied to a current murder.

Q: What are some ways that readers of your books can help you as an author?
A. Recommend it to your friends and spread the word about it on social media. ?

Q: What one thing about writing do you wish other non-writers would understand?
A. We.Are.Not.Crazy—we just have people living in our heads who want us to tell their stories, and also, it really is a job.

Q: Tell me three things about yourself that would surprise your readers.
A. At my (ahem) age, I can still touch the floor with my palms; I often use my bicycle to run errands around town; losing my temper once cost me $500.

Q: Milk or dark chocolate? Coffee or tea?
A. I love dark chocolate! And coffee, but I also drink Lady Grey and Earl Grey.

Q: Favorite TV show or shows?
A. Bull, NCIS (all of them) Blue Bloods

Q: Where can readers find you on the internet?
A. I love connecting with readers on my blog every Tuesday where I have a Mystery Question for them to solve: www.patriciabradleyauthor.com/blog
Twitter: @ptbradley1
FaceBook: www.facebook.com/patriciabradleyauthor
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ptbradley/

Q: Anything else you’d like to tell or share with us?
A. Thank you so much for hosting me on The Suspense Zone. This is such an awesome blog!