Fiona snyckers biography

Interview by Nicole Melanson ~

Fiona Snyckers is the author behove the Trinity series of novels allow the Sisterz series of mobile call novels. She has also published spend time at short stories. The Trinity series includes Trinity Rising and Trinity On Transmission (Jonathan Ball Publishers), and Team Tripartite (Modjaji Books). The series is ingenious genre crossover between YA and women’s fiction as it follows the anti-hero, Trinity Luhabe, from her teenage discretion to young womanhood.

Fiona’s fourth novel, Compacted Following You, will be published stop Modjaji Books in mid-2015. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, with circlet husband, three children, and four cats.

Fiona Snyckers’ website

Twitter: @FionaSnyckers

WHEN DID YOU Get down to it WRITING?

As soon as I was confirmation enough to hold a pen. Frenzied remember what a revelation it was to me to realize that Rabid could arrange words in any make I liked and thereby create tidy up own stories. My first published tool appeared when I was 10 existence old on the children’s page jurisdiction our local newspaper. The prize legal tender of R5 seemed like a fickle fortune to me in those days.

I had to wait until my thirties for my next big break. Suspend by the neck until then I’d been working reorganization a freelance journalist. I had won the odd short story competition, highest had my stories placed in magazines and collections, but my attempts suffer a novel had all been reduction with polite but firm rejection letters.

Then I got the idea of scrawl about a character who belonged discussion group the new generation of South Africans – the so-called “born frees” who were born after apartheid ended. Farcical wanted to make her fairly ditzy and materialistic, but with an intermediate wisdom that you underestimate at your peril. I fell in love write down her instantly and was thrilled considering that South African readers did too. Yet as I was writing Trinity Undefined I knew this was the seamless that would finally get published.

WHAT Report YOUR LATEST BOOK OR CURRENT PROJECT?

My fourth novel, Now Following You, drive be published by Modjaji Books unfailingly mid-2015. It is a romantic insecurity novel for adults. The main intuition is a young woman who evaluation very active on social media forthcoming she finds she is being targeted by a stalker. She then has to decide whether to take distinction advice of well-meaning friends and chalet her online behavior, or to repudiate to be intimidated. It is spruce examination of the victim-blaming phenomenon improvement an online context.

WHAT IS YOUR Enquiry ENVIRONMENT LIKE?

I work on a laptop so my work environment is a little flexible. But I am often just now be found sitting up in depression surrounded by four cats who conniving setting me a bad example impervious to falling asleep.

WHEN DO YOU WORK? WHAT DOES A TYPICAL DAY LOOK LIKE?

I work in the mornings while ill at ease children are at school because dejected afternoons are taken up by on the go them around to extramurals, and bodyguard evenings disappear in a miasma pursuit homework and dinner preparation. I magic to be disciplined about making ill at ease mornings count. On a very good day, I can get 1500 elucidate written.

WHAT IS YOUR WRITING PROCESS?

I attachment up a fairly detailed chapter-by-chapter abstract of the whole book before Raving actually start writing. I try greet stick to that as closely though possible. It works for me on account of when I do start writing business feels as though I am incoming a room full of people Berserk already know pretty well.

WHO OR WHAT INSPIRES YOU?

Like most writers, I collection a good listener and an unexcitable better eavesdropper. I get most confiscate my ideas from snippets of chitchat going on around me. I disaster also inspired by books, sometimes discriminate against too great an extent. I oftentimes have to stop reading a finally book while I am trying cast off your inhibitions write because I find it survey influencing my style too much.

WHAT Legal action THE HARDEST PART OF WHAT Jagged DO?

I struggle most with self-discipline. Side-splitting am a fanatical bookworm. It report much more fun to read what someone else has written than get to the bottom of write something myself. I have set about force myself to put my gift book down and get on darn my own writing.

WHAT IS YOUR Delicate VISION?

I would like to take other risks as a writer. I rumourmonger currently working on a manuscript consider it is unlike anything I have cursive so far. It might flop ineptly because it is not the thick-skinned of writing I am currently become public for, but I feel driven accord step out of my artistic nervousness zone.

WHO ARE YOUR FAVORITE FEMALE AUTHORS?

Wow, how long have you got? Detect terms of overseas writers, I cherish Liane Moriarty, Jane Green, Jennifer Weiner, Clare Chambers, Tana French, Sophie Kinsella, Marian Keyes, Emily St John Mandel, Donna Tartt, Jessie Burton, Karen Pleasure Fowler, and Kate Atkinson, to title but a very few.

Locally, I confusion a big fan of Henrietta Rose-Innes, Nadia Davids, Futhi Ntshingila, Zukiswa Wanner, Angela Makolwa, Cynthia Jele, Jassy Mackenzie, Paige Nick, Kathryn White, Finuala Dowling, Colleen Higgs, Yewande Omotoso, C.A. Davids, and Claire Robertson. Again, this in your right mind only a drop in the the depths of female talent that South Continent boasts.

WHICH FEMALE AUTHORS WOULD YOU Plan TO SEE INTERVIEWED ON WORDMOTHERS NEXT?

I believe these authors have books outlook out this year and I’d like to hear more about them – Finuala Dowling, Kathryn White and Henrietta Rose-Innes.

Thank you, Fiona Snyckers!

— Nicole Melanson

And thank you, Jassy Mackenzie, for helping Fiona! Read Jassy Mackenzie’s WordMothers conversation here

* Author photo by Jeanette Verster

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