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Eden is a romance in a sci-fi frame. And of course a little bit of humour. Well, life IS funny, no matter where you are.
All was going well until Jenny found herself deserted…but not alone.
Jennifer Daykin joins the three-man crew to explore the newly discovered planet, Eden.
Why do you Write?
I’ve always written. I’ve stories from when my age was in single figures – and I’ve still got them! I kept on writing when, in the early days, my parents told me I’d have no chance because I couldn’t stop daydreaming about Adam and the Ants and pretending to be Blondie. Teachers told me to be a writer you have to have Experience.
Unfortunately I took that to mean taking off my ankle socks and stuffing them in my bra and going out in the Big Wide World (a local around the corner) with my other ankle-socks-in-bra friends and ordering a Babycham! Boy, our teen years were wild! Later, I wrote in between having the rugrats; “real life” jobs; marriages; funerals… I write because I enjoy it, a cliché I know. Eden was an experimental novel. I love romance, but I’m also interested in sic-fi and there just wasn’t a book out there that I could read, so I wrote one.
How do you Relax?
I love reality TV. Big Brother, the Apprentice and Celebrity Jungle are my top favourites, but before you all start groaning and rolling your eyes there are some amazing characters to be had for future stories.
What themes do you Write on?
Comedy. I’m also a romantic, and my novels are always based on love. All but one: A sci-fi I wrote a few years ago, but it did have a little love scene between a professor and scientist. Well…
Do your novels contain any autobiographical material or scenes based on your own experiences?
Oh yes! Usually when I’m out with the girls their wittisims or drunken escapades end up stored in the grey matter for use later on. I like comedy, not the pie-in-face type of laugh, but every day humour. A silly example is one day in Tesco doing the weekly shop, I noticed a man standing beside his trolley as a women was trying to reach something just behind it. Instead of saying excuse me, she just moved the trolley out of the way. The man who was holding on to it pretended he was more doddery than he was and moved with the trolley so it looked as if he was going to fall. The woman was horrified and moved the trolley back into place, literally pushing him back upright. It was so funny I forgot most of what I went in for, but I s’pose you had to be there…
Which character in history, fiction or do you most associate with/ admire/ are you most like and why?
Tinkerbell. She was overlooked, taken for granted and pushed aside for a taller girl and never got her man. But she STILL got that ship back home.
What things make you angry?
Rejection letters.
What do you think is the best piece of advice you could give to aspiring writers?
Don’t concentrate on that one novel you’re writing/re-drafting/editing. Take a break and write something totally different. If you’re writing a horror, write a comedy and vice versa. I like romance with happy endings and a creative writing tutor once asked me to write about a person I most hated or feared. I came up with a rapist, and had to write a short story about this horrible person. A guy in the group who was a
thriller writer had to write a slushy romance. It was such fun, and really got the creative juices flowing. Try it, you might surprise yourself.
What for you was the best period of history/ time of your life and why
My warm and fuzzy childhood was my best period. No worries, somebody to cook and clean for you, no bills to worry about… it was all so easy back then (only I didn’t know it).
Tell us one piece of amusing/ interesting/ peculiar information about yourself.
I was standing in a bus queue, and the lady in front offered me a bag of sweets. Thanks, said I, delving in. She gave me a funny look and then another woman behind me took a sweet and I realised she’d not been offering me a sweet at all but to a friend further down the queue.
If your book became a best seller, what would you do?
Smugly write to all the agents/publishers that turned me down saying, “here’s one you let get away”.
