{"id":11139,"date":"2013-07-10T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/?p=11139"},"modified":"2014-12-24T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T12:04:00","slug":"5-questions-with-best-selling-author-vicki-tyley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/5-questions-with-best-selling-author-vicki-tyley\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Questions with Best Selling Author Vicki Tyley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1. Can you tell us a little about yourself and your journey as a writer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was born and raised in New Zealand, moving to Western Australia with a single suitcase when I was nineteen years old. Since then, I\u2019ve packed a lot into my life, working hard in predominantly accounting, IT and management roles, but also spending a year touring the world. I\u2018ve lived in the central business districts of large cities, suburbia, idyllic seaside locations, rural areas, bushland, and remote desert mining camps.<\/p>\n

Mid 2002, I quit my high-pressure management job and moved with my husband to a farm about ninety minutes north-east of Melbourne to write fulltime.<\/p>\n

My writing journey is typical of the Australian debut writer: write book, have manuscript assessed and edited, query the three Australian agents accepting unsolicited submissions in your genre, write another book, query the same three Australian agents\u2026 rinse and repeat.<\/p>\n

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But that\u2019s where my story changes. Realizing that the chance of securing Australian representation was next to none, I started querying US\/UK agents. More rejections followed. One agent, however, went to the trouble to explain his reasons. When I completed the next novel, Thin Blood<\/a>, he was the first agent I submitted the manuscript to. Robert Fleck of The Fleck Agency in Coppell, Texas, now represents me.<\/p>\n

One small problem: Many US publishers refused to even look at the book. \u201cAmericans don\u2019t want to read Australian mysteries,\u201d he was told. I wasn\u2019t about to give up, though. I continued writing and Bob continued pitching.<\/p>\n

In October 2009, with nothing to lose, we decided to release Thin Blood<\/a> electronically on Smashwords. That received such a good response that Suspense Magazine selected me as their featured New Author for April 2010. At the end of April, we made the novel available in Amazon\u2019s Kindle store. Taking Bob and I both by surprise, it rocketed up the charts to #1 in Kindle mysteries and peaking at #6 in ALL paid Kindle books. (It was also named an Amazon Best of 2010 Customer Favorite<\/a>.)<\/p>\n