Rogue's Angels Present: A Fool's Circle by Suzanne Seddon

Please welcome Suzanne Seddon author of A Fool's Circle

Suzanne Seddon will be awarding a $10 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

A Fool's Circle

by Suzanne Seddon

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GENRE:   Crime Fiction

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INTERVIEW:

1. What or who inspired you to start writing?

My mother inspired me. After writing a short play at a well-known theatre school in London. It spiraled from there.

2. What elements are necessary components for this genre?

A very good imagination and also witnessing domestic violence and mental abuse.

3. How did you come up with your idea for your novel

Watching my mother’s unhappiness over the years.

4. What expertise did you bring to your writing?

First-hand experiences in my life.

5. What would you want your readers to know about you that might not be in your bio?

I am a qualified swimming teacher, then I owned a pub when I was only twenty-four. I was an Air hostess for years. I casted a feature film. 

6. As far as your writing goes, what are your future plans?

To write another book. Soon.

7. If you could be one of the characters from this book, who would it be and why?

I can’t give too much away, but I would say Sophie. Let’s just say I feel her pain.

8. Can you give us a sneak peek into this book?

Kate Saunders has suffered many years of physical and mental abuse at the hands of her controlling husband Alan, and convinces herself that she is only holding the family together for the sake of her eight-year-old daughter. If it wasn’t for her best friend Jill Reynolds, she’d have taken the suicide option a long time ago.

As she desperately seeks a way to escape, she is contacted by a solicitor. Kate’s old Aunt has died and she has been left a small fortune. 

For the first time she sees the light at the end of the tunnel. She dreams of a fresh start, a new home, a new life.

What Kate doesn’t know is that Jill and Alan have their own secrets, and are both desperate to get their hands on her money.

Kate soon finds herself falling for the charms of Jonathan Jacobs in what she believes to be fate finally intervening and offering her a second chance, unaware that each move he makes has been directed, orchestrated and well-rehearsed as he begs her to leave her husband Alan. 

But is it all too late, as she finds herself in the frame for murder?

9. Do you belong to a critique group? If so, how does this help or hinder your writing?

I don’t belong to a critique group. 

10. When did you first decide to submit your work? Please tell us what or who encouraged you to 

take this big step?

It was an author friend of mine called Ken Scott. I told him I had this script and I needed to write it as a book. He looked it over and told me I was a really good scriptwriter. But I had to change, to become a novelist. He told me it was going to take a lot of time and determination. It was my mum’s dream to write her own book. I wasn’t going to give up just yet! I was so determined through grief. In fact, I think that’s what got me through. I drove him bloody mad. I’m surprised he’s still talking to me. But we remain great friends. He has gone as far to endorse my book, and tells me, that he has never known someone that has been so determined to change from scriptwriter to novelist in his life. He absolutely loves my story.  

11. What is the best and worst advice you ever received? (regarding writing or publishing)

Maybe I have been lucky but I haven’t received any bad advice. 

12. Do you outline your books or just start writing?

I never outline a book, it’s all in my head. Floating around in the grey matter.

13. How do you maintain your creativity?

People watching. My favorite hobby.

14. Who is your favorite character in the book. Can you tell us why?

Jill Reynolds… Because I think she is someone we have all come across in our lives.

15. Are your plotting bunnies, angels or demons?

All of them?

16. Anything else you might want to add?

What do you think about Alan? Is he someone you have ever met in your life?

BLURB:

Kate Sanders has suffered many years of physical and mental abuse at the hands of her abusive husband Alan, and convinces herself that she is only holding the family together for the sake of her eight-year-old daughter. If it wasn’t for her best friend Jill Reynolds, she would have taken the suicide option a long time ago.
As she desperately seeks a way to escape, she is contacted by a solicitor. Kate’s old aunt has died and she has been left a small fortune.
For the first time, she sees the light at the end of the tunnel. She dreams of a fresh start, a new home, a new life. What Kate doesn’t know is that Jill and Alan have their own secrets, and are both desperate to get their hands on her money.
Kate soon finds herself falling for the charms of Jonathon Jacobs in what she believes to be fate finally intervening and offering her a second chance, unaware that each move he makes has been directed, orchestrated and well-rehearsed as he begs her to leave her husband Alan.
But is it all too late, as she finds herself in the frame for murder?

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EXCERPT:

A blonde head bounced on the floor in time to the yelling. Rays of the early morning sun caught her golden hair, and motes of dust hung in the air. Sophie Saunders was eight years old. Kneeling down on the floor she played with her dolls, drumming Ken and Barbie against the carpet, her body bent forward, almost as if she were praying in her immaculately clean and pressed school uniform. But today her school uniform was the last thing on her mind. She bashed the dolls’ heads off the pink floor in unison.

            

‘Ring-a-Ring-a-Rosie,’ she sang aloud to herself as she tried to drown out the voices that rose up through the floorboards. The noises from downstairs were a regular occurrence, and fast becoming the norm. Sophie felt her dad’s anger, ever-present in his voice as it vibrated through her bedroom, positioned over the kitchen. Scared, she dropped her dolls, raising her arms and clasping her small hands over her ears. Sophie closed her eyes. Blinded, she felt for Barbie and Ken, gripped the toys by the legs. With one in each hand, she remained still for a moment, and as the voices intensified beneath her, she sensed them possessing the dolls.

‘You’re an old bag. I hate you!’ Sophie’s voice was deep and rough, as she rammed Ken’s head into Barbie’s chest.

‘Why are you always so nasty to me?’ She raised the pitch of her voice as she shook the dolls hard.

‘Because you make me want to vomit when I look at your fat ugly face,’ she growled. 

‘Please stop being so cruel to me,’ she enunciated. ‘Who do you think you are? Don’t you dare tell me what to do, bitch!’ With each word, she struck Ken against Barbie, again and again, until finally Barbie’s head popped off and rolled across the carpet.

That hadn’t been her intention. She didn’t mean to decapitate the poor doll. Shocked, she stood up as she searched for the missing head. She found it under the bedside cabinet at the back by the wall. She crouched down, stretched out her arm and grabbed it. Sophie sat up on her knees, struggling to reattach the plastic head to its body.

‘Bloody shit! Why won’t it go on?’ The racket from below grew ever louder. ‘Bloody shit.’ Frustrated, she gave up, and flung the dolls across the room.

Downstairs, her father, Alan, almost lost his head. He shouted louder as his wife, Kate, persisted as the peacemaker.

‘As useless as a one-legged woman in an arse-kicking contest.’ His voice echoed around the large stark white room, drowning out the soothing music from the old radio sitting on the window ledge.

‘You’re one useless bastard!’ The barrage of abuse had just hit average level.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Suzanne Seddon was born in 1968 in Islington, London. After leaving school she had many interesting jobs, from swimming teacher to air hostess, and was able to travel the globe. Now a single mum to her teenage daughter Poppy-willow, Suzanne spends her days writing and has written several articles for magazines and newspapers.

Growing up, Suzanne witnessed mental and physical abuse within her own family which strongly influenced her when she wrote her first play, A Fool’s Circle, when she attended the famous Anna Scher Theatre. Suzanne, however, was not content to leave it there and decided to go ahead and transform her play into a novel.  

Not one to shy away from exciting challenges, she also wrote, acted, directed, cast and produced a trailer for the book around her hometown in Islington with the support of local businesses, who recognised the drive and importance of Suzanne and her work.

Suzanne is a passionate writer and she is determined to be heard so that the issue of domestic abuse is raised amongst the public's consciousness, empowering others to speak out. She wants those who suffer at the hands of another to have their voices heard, loud and clear.

Publisher’s Author Page

https://www.wallacepublishing.co.uk/suzanne-seddon.html

Amazon Link: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fools-Circle-Suzanne-Seddon/dp/1999613635/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548460249&sr=8-1&keywords=Suzanne+Seddon

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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE:

Suzanne Seddon will be awarding a $10 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

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