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Clare Tanner interviews Christine Jones who remembers the days when she used to make up excuses to hide her illiterate secret. “I didn’t bring my glasses, I haven’t got time to look at it right now.” After a lot of work, help from family, friends and strangers, she’s about to complete her 5th book.

A victim of bulling and molestation as a child, Christine Jones could not concentrate on classroom activities. Escaping into the imagination was a way of survival for her. Though she wrote stories, they were scribble, lacking proper grammar, punctuation and spelling. Persistence and help from her own children and writer’s websites enabled Christine to perfect her writing ability. She believes if children were encouraged to write their true thoughts without judgment or fear of punishment, it would see less illiteracy and other issues being hidden. It would also enable adults to pick up on problems more easily than trying to get a child to verbalize what they fear or are experiencing.

In the Bookhabit Show podcast Christine describes how most of her books have been written over the last 15 to 20 years, and every time she learned something new she would go back and amend the draft of each of her books. Now a successful self publisher, she sees the internet as the way of the future in writing, publishing and reading – similar to the music industry. Christine has her own website www.cjbooks.net and promotes her work there, but she’d “rather be writing than sitting on the internet trying to promote my book.”

Having said that, she enjoys the freedom and creative control she has over all aspects of her book when she self publishes. And she doesn’t think it affects the experience of the reader. “I’ve carried out my own research and readers don’t seem to care about self publishing or who published the book. The war over self publishing is being fought between authors.”

Christine hails from Tasmania in Australia. She is the author of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Humor, Romance and Spiritual Genres. Her Science Fiction book ‘Mariard Volume One The Gifting’ has successfully gone through to Round 2 of the Bookhabit Unpublished Competition.

“Considering what I have experienced during my life, either personally or through others, I found myself going on a journey of enlightenment with the characters in the books. Seeing different perspectives also enabled me to grow as a person with each volume being more challenging to my own self-worth issues. I have written 7 of the 10 volumes and plan in the future to write the Mariard diaries, personal accounts from the characters, revealing times not mentioned in the volumes.”

Christine’s books are available on www.Bookhabit.com where the first chapter of each can be downloaded for free.

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