Flies in the Soup - Jennifer Fallon Pt1
With twenty three novels under her belt, including the recently released The Lyre Thief , Jennifer Fallon is one of Australia’s best-loved fantasy authors. After moving to New Zealand one might be forgiven for thinking she’d switched to the slow-lane. Nothing could be further from the truth. Between her day job as an IT consultant to Antarctica New Zealand, her writing, the Christchurch earthquakes, and working on her porn name, Jennifer’s life has been anything dull. I had a few questions jotted down for her, but before I could even open my mouth she destroyed that idea completely… I used to write full time you know. You used to write full-time? Yeah, but the GFC came along and that was the end of that! The GFC has significantly affected the amount of money you earn from your writing? Oh absolutely! I’ve lost probably fifty to sixty percent of my income. I was earning a comfortable wage, then the GFC came along and all the bookshops clo...