Wolf Tones by JJ Marsh
You escaped the past. Here comes the present.
Fifteen years ago, Rolf was destined for the gutter.
His luck has changed. Now a cellist with the Salzburg City Orchestra, he has his dream job and dizzying prospects.
All because of her.
Smart, sexy, well connected and crazy about him, Leonor is his fantasy woman. She made him and he’ll never forget it.
Neither will she.
She chooses Rolf’s diet, his friends, his decisions and career path. She knows best. When does a champion turn controller?
While he submits to domination at home, he struggles at work. The maestro is determined to break down and rebuild his new cellist. Clash after clash shatter Rolf’s confidence until he doubts everything about himself.
Then a rumour reaches his ear. Has he misjudged his new friends? Is something more sinister pulling the orchestra’s strings?
Regardless of the drama behind the scenes, the show must go on. It’s the only way to escape his past.
A classic artist, Rolf presents the best side of himself, hiding the pain of imperfection. A strategy with devastating results.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JJ Marsh is the author of The Beatrice Stubbs series, featured in The Guardian Readers' Recommend and The Bookseller's Editor's Choice
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* A founder member of Triskele Books, an award-winning author collective founded in 2011
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* Reviewer for Bookmuse, the readers' site with a difference
She lives in Switzerland with her husband and three pugs, and in an attic overlooking a cemetery, she writes.
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As part of the blogtour JJ has very kindly described what her writing journey has looked like.
Behind Closed Doors, published 2012, took me three years to write. And I mean write. The research phase stretched for two years before that. This September 2021, I’m celebrating my fifteenth publication – Wolf Tones. It will be my second novel this year and a third is due out in October.
How did I go from spending five years on one book to publishing three in one year? Practice. Simple as that.
Anytime my output comes up in conversation, friends say things like ‘you’re a machine!’, or ‘you really churn them out!’; the assumption being increased productivity equates to lower quality. I beg to differ.
Recently I gave a talk to MA Creative Writing students at the University of Suffolk and one student expressed dismay at my daily word count target of 4k. “I can barely manage a thousand!” she sighed.
OK, let’s break it down.
No kids, no day job, no demands on my time other than walking an aged pug, I’m free to spend a long as I like at my desk. Mornings are for admin & research. In the afternoon, and sometimes into the evening, I write. It’s what I do. Seven days a week.
Writing has been my profession for over ten years. I’m still a writing coach and occasionally teach workshops. That means the very things people spend years learning, like point-of-view, character development, story arc, sentence rhythm, lexical precision and sensory description, are hard-wired into my brain.
Think of it like following a complicated recipe. Confession: I’m an awful cook. It takes me an age to produce a dish I feel confident to serve to my guests. But a chef in a professional kitchen understands their ingredients and through trial and error, knows exactly how long it needs in the oven. That’s how I feel about my books.
Wolf Tones is an exception – new genre (psychological thriller), delicate subject matter (abusive relationship) and complicated setting (classical orchestra) – so it took over two years to complete.
But that’s what being a writer means – hard graft and constant practice. Above my desk is a Jeanette Winterson quote: ‘Show up for work’. I’d add to that ‘... and never stop learning’.
JJ Marsh
