Thank you to Fiona Jenkins for featuring me on her Fiona’s FactFile and her Author Q&A today. I’m re-blogging both on my own website. Here’s the FactFile first…
Please name 5 facts about you. (Pics if you have any)
- Jessica Redland isn’t my real name. It’s Julie but I find it easier to have everyone connected to writing to refer to me as Jessica. I decided to write under a pseudonym for a variety of reasons and chose Jessica because it’s a timeless name that I’ve always loved. I wanted my surname to be something that had a connection to my writing. The idea for my debut novel came to me when I was living on a street called Redlands Road. I ditched the ‘s’ and kept the Redland part
- I’m an arctophile – a collector/lover of teddy bears. I love them so much that I took a career break from HR in 2003 and set up and ran my own specialist teddy bear shop. I started writing my first book on quiet days…
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Very interesting, Jessica. The interesting thing is that my daughter is named Jessica. I really liked the name and apparently so did many others as there were 4 Jessicas in her class growing up. She was adamant that no one call her Jessie.
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Oh my goodness, what a popular name at the time! I ran a Brownie Pack and Lucy was a popular name in the pack. At one point, we had 3. In fact, ‘L’ was a really popular initial and half the pack had names beginning with L!
Jessica is lovely (so good choice!) although, because it’s not my real name, I do find it really odd when someone shortens it to Jess or Jessie!
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She is okay with Jess. I think it fits you.
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