I'm so excited to have Yvonne Eve Walus here to talk about 10 things people don't know about her in a guest post here at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews.
Yvonne is currrently touring to promote her newest release Murder @ Play the prequel to her first book in the Christine Chamberlaine murder series Murder @ Work.
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Thanks so much Goddessfish.com for connecting us on this blog tour!
Thank you Yvonne for being here today to talk about 10 things most people don't know about her, I greatly appreciate it!
Please take it away, Yvonne!
10 things most people don't know about me:
1. Although my murder mysteries (MURDER @ WORK and MURDER @ PLAY) are set in South Africa, I was actually born in Poland and English was the 4th language I learned to speak. When I was 12 years old, "How are you?" and "This is a book" pretty much covered the extent of my English conversation.
2. When I arrived in South Africa in the 1980s, what struck me was not so much the racism - the media prepared me for that - but the chauvinism. Women were not allowed to enter a bar or join Toastmasters. A woman needed her husband's or father's signature to open an account at a shop.
3. On the plus side, a woman wasn't expected to settle her medical bills, either: all the dentist and gynaecologist accounts went straight to the "head of the family". This used to irk me no end, but, looking back, was that such a bad thing, I wonder....
4. In MURDER @ PLAY, I explore the seemingly charmed time housewives had in South Africa during the 1980s and 1990s. They didn't have to work for a living. They had servants to take care of the house, the garden and the private swimming pool. As I race from my day job to do the school run, get the groceries, cook dinner and settle to a night's fiction writing, I sometimes think putting up with chauvinism was a small price to pay.
5. I'm a hopeless romantic who believes in soul mates. In MURDER @ PLAY, my heroine amateur detective agreed to marry the hero minutes within meeting him.
6. My own husband, however, was my high school sweetheart, and we dated for 5 years before tying the knot. He is nothing like the hero in MURDER @ PLAY.
7. Even though I also hold a doctorate in Math, I am nothing like Dr. Christine Chamberlain, the heroine in MURDER @ PLAY. She is much, much nicer.
8. I love crime fiction for its puzzles, the fast pace and the quirky characters.
9. Crime fiction that's too realistic depresses me. Sometimes I stop reading a book if it gets too dark.
10. My favourite paranormal being is a witch.
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