- Do you have a fan club?
- Well, kind of but not. There’s a Yahoo list called JenniferCrusieFans that was begun as a fan list, but how long can you talk about fifteen novels and two novellas? So we moved on to fainting goats, vibrators, chocolate Jesuses, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and now it’s just a great community of very open-minded people who will talk about anything with great enthusiasm. Basically, they feed on ideas. I love them. They’re called the Cherries–their idea–and I am one of them.
- Do you have a mailing list?
- Yep. You can sign up on the mailing list page. We’ll send notice of new book releases, tour info and a quarterly newsletter, and we swear never to give out your info to anybody. Really.
- How do you pick your book tour cities?
- I don’t pick, St. Martin’s picks. And they’re always cities that are generally considered “book towns” so that people will actually come to the booksignings, and the booksignings are almost always in New York Times reporting stores. However, some times I do conferences and then I show up wherever the conference is. And yes, sometimes they let me out of the country. I’ll be in Australia and New Zealand in August of 2007 (and I am really looking forward to that).
- How do I find information about your next book that is coming out?
- For my solo books, here on this website on the upcoming and w.i.p. page. For the books I write in partnership with Bob Mayer, go to the Crusie-Mayer site.
- Why don’t you write faster?
- Because I’m a slow writer. Kind of like, I’m not short because I’m tall. It also depends on the book; some books write faster than others. And sometimes I collaborate with other writers like Bob Mayer, and then those books go faster. But basically, I have to write the first draft to see what the story is, then I have to analyze the structure to see how to tell it best, then I have to analyze to see what it really means so i can layer the motifs and metaphors and theme throughout the plot and subplots, then I have to send it to the beta readers to see what I missed and rewrite it again, then I have to send it to my editor and rewrite it again…The short answer is, well-crafted books take time.
