Featured Interview With Jeff Senior
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in West Yorkshire, England, and still live here, in a place called Liversedge. I’ve never been tempted to move away because it’s a nice place to live. I don’t have any pets, just a wife, two sons and two grandchildren.
I’m now semi-retired but worked for a long time in IT and did over thirty years as a freelance writer. I was initially a technical author, writing user guides and help text for computer software, then moved on to magazine articles plus website text and blogs. I’m now attempting to re-launch my career with a debut novel, recently published.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
At school, I was always particularly interested in English Language and Literature, and I liked to write. I continued that into my career and have always written in some form or another, although not anything that’s been widely read.
As most people know, computer user guides don’t get read. They just sit on a shelf. I did have a published book in the 1980s in England, “Microcomputer Buyer’s Guide”, which had a very restricted circulation and sold hardly any copies. I’ve ghost-written two business books that aren’t of course in my name although I do get an acknowledgement.
Now I’m trying to get into proper writing that people might actually read.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I generally like to read crime and thriller novels, including books by Harlan Coben. I also like legal novels, particularly those by John Grisham, plus historical novels by Bernard Cornwell. I used to read a lot of horror books, especially by Stephen King, but I think I’ve moved on from that now.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My debut novel is called “The Itch That Couldn’t Be Scratched”, which was published on 1 March and is available on Amazon and from other retailers. It’s a tale of obsession, of one man’s quest to obtain justice for a woman he never knew, and how it affected those around him.
The story is mainly based on the principle that, whatever decisions we make, whatever actions we take, affect those around us and then those around them. The effect ripples outward and means that lives are never as they would have been otherwise. All actions have consequences.
We might do something with the best of intentions but we have no way of knowing how it will turn out. Thus, good actions may ultimately have terrible outcomes while malevolent deeds might eventually have beneficial results. This is something the main character in the book learns to his cost.
The book probably took about 18 months to write, although most of it was done on a part-time basis. It was written on a variety of devices, including a phone and tablet, with everything eventually transferred onto a laptop to be put together, edited, polished and checked repeatedly.
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