Was there anything about the publishing process that surprised you? Sometimes it takes me to strange and exciting places and sometimes it deserts me at the end of a dark alley and leaves me to find my way home.Ĥ. But I still succumb to the sheer pleasure of racing after an idea that suddenly demands my attention. So since then, I’ve tried to do a little planning and interrogate my story before I start to write. However I didn’t enjoy the endless rewrites as I tried to rescue the story from all its narrative black holes and reverse it out of the plot dead ends it had got stuck down. It was a real blast and I loved every minute of it. Ha! Good question! I wrote the first draft of On The Edge without stopping and with no idea where it was going to take me. Are you a plan, plan, plan writer or do you sit down and see where the words take you? I stopped to watch its great beam passing overhead and the opening scene of On The Edge with Jen Shaw hanging, drugged and dreaming, from the top of a lighthouse in the middle of a storm, sprang into my mind.ģ. It’s been described as “a proper nerve-shredder of a tale”, beautifully atmospheric” and “a true page-turner with unexpected twists”Ī drive home, late one windy night, past one of the lighthouses that litter the coast where I live. On The Edge is my debut novel, a thriller, and the first in a series about its risk-taking, free-climbing fanatic of a protagonist Jen Shaw. She kindly answered a few of my questions. Jane Jesmond’s debut novel, On the Edge, was published by Verve Books on 26 October 2021.
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