Jane Corry is author of the new psychological suspense everyone’s talking about – My Husband’s Wife. Here she tells us how her experience working in a high-security prison provided inspiration for her debut novel, and she also provides some invaluable pearls of wisdom for aspiring authors… read on!
What led you to write your debut thriller My Husband’s Wife?
It was a mixture of prison and marriage! After my first marriage ended, I took a job as writer in residence of a high-security male prison. This involved going in two days a week, over three years, to help headline criminals write short stories, novels, life stories, poems and letters. The reasoning behind it was that writing can help people come to terms with the past and do better in the future. I then got married again which made me consider how prison can affect marriage in lots of different ways. Many of ‘my men’ found it hard to keep their relationships going. And I also began to think more deeply about the relationship between a first and second wife…..All these factors began to weave a story in my head.