Nous sommes très heureuses d’accueillir Darynda Jones, l’auteure de la série Charley Davidson, merci à elle pour ces réponses.
Welcome on Between Dreams and Reality, can you present yourself in a few words?
Thanks for having me! I’m Darynda Jones and I write the NY Times and USA Today bestselling Charley Davidson series about a female PI who was born the grim reaper. Among other things.
Book 11 is on this way, how do you keep up with the series?
It’s actually getting harder and harder. I now have a woman doing book bibles for me and I have a couple of assistants, including a continuity editor, of whom I can ask questions. Like, “Does Uncle Bob know Charley’s the grim reaper, yet?” Or, “Aunt Lil died in the 60s at a hippy commune, but do we know how?” A lot of it is trying to keep up with which character knows what. Sometimes, I also turn to the Grimlets. They are the real experts. 🙂
Can you tell us a bit more about it?
Sure, in 11th Grave, we get to meet Reyes’s would-be brother. Charley’s love interest, Reyes Farrow, the dark, mysterious son of public enemy number one, was abducted as a child. After Reyes was supposedly abducted from them in turn, they ended up with another son a few years later. We get to meet him when he goes to Charley with a case: He knows the people who raised him are not his biological parents, and he wants Charley to find out where he comes from.
Add to that a malevolent god who’s after Charley and the gang and a tag-team of angels who are following her every move, and Charley is a bit on edge. Especially when her slightly better half keeps insisting she drop the case with his would-be brother. Charley doesn’t like being told what to do. But in this situation, he may have been right.
How many books do you intend to write?
As many as I possibly can! But you probably mean in the Charley Davidson series. In that case, it’s open ended so I’m not really sure how many total there will be. I will say that once it does end, I have a spinoff I’d love to do. Fingers crossed!
Do you plan to come and visit France?
I would kill to visit France! Le sigh… Someday, yes, I would love to.
The world is about to end and you have to assemble your perfect apocalypse team with five fictional characters – who would that be?
Well, I would definitely want to choose characters with really cool powers that would up my chances of survival. 🙂 I would definitely choose Charley and Reyes from my own series, and can the Black Dagger Brotherhood count as one? From there I’d choose Jane Yellowrock and Mercy Thompson. Also, I’m sneaking Daryl from The Walking Dead in through the back door.
Bienvenue sur Between Dreams and Reality, pouvez-vous vous présenter en quelques mots ?
Merci de m’avoir ! Je suis Darynda Jones, et j’écris pour la série du NY Times et USA Today bestselling Charley Davidson au sujet d’une femme détective qui est née faucheuse. Entre autres choses.
Le tome 11 va bientôt arriver, comment gérez-vous la série ?
Ca devient en fait de plus en plus difficile. J’ai maintenant une personne faisant des bibles des livres, et j’ai plusieurs assistants, incluant un éditeur en continu, à qui je peux poser des questions. Comme « est-ce que Oncle Bob sait déjà que Charley est une faucheuse ? » ou « La Tante Lil est morte dans les années 60 lors d’un rassemblement hippy, mais savons-nous comment ? » Beaucoup à gérer avec ce que savent les personnages. Parfois, je me tourne vers les Grimlet. Ce sont de réels experts. 🙂
Pouvez-vous nous en dire un peu plus à ce sujet ?
Bien sûr, dans le 11ème Tombe, nous rencontrons le possible frère de Reyes. L’amoureux de Charley, Reyes Farrow, le mystérieux, sombre fils de l’ennemi public numéro 1, a été enlevé quand il était enfant. Après que Reyes ait été supposément enlevé, ils ont fini par avoir un autre enfant quelques années plus tard. Nous allons le rencontrer quand il vient voir Charley pour une affaire : Il sait que les personnes qui l’ont élevé ne sont pas ses parents biologiques, et il veut que Charley trouve d’où il vient.
Ajoutez à cela, un dieu malveillant qui en a après Charley, le gang et l’équipe des angels qui la suivent à chacun de ses mouvements et Charley atteint ses limites. Surtout quand sa douce moitié continue d’insister pour qu’elle laisse tomber l’affaire de son possible frère. Charley n’aime pas qu’on lui dise quoi faire. Mais dans cette situation, il pourrait bien avoir raison.
Combien de livres comptez-vous écrire ?
Autant que possible ! Mais vous voulez surement dire dans la série Charley Davidson. Dans ce cas, c’est un fil ouvert alors je ne suis pas sûre du nombre qu’il y aura. Je dois dire que quand ça finira, j’ai un spin-off que j’aimerais beaucoup faire. Croisons les doigts !
Comptez-vous venir en France ?
Je tuerais pour venir en France ! … Un jour, oui, j’aimerais beaucoup.
Le monde est à sa fin, l’apocalypse approche et vous devez réunir votre équipe parfaite avec cinq personnages fictifs – qui seraient-ils ?
Eh bien, je voudrais vraiment des personnages avec des pouvoirs cools qui pourraient augmenter mes chances de survie. 🙂 Je choisirais définitivement Charley et Reyes de ma propre série, et La confrérie de la Dague Noire peut-elle compter comme un seul ? A partir de là, je choisirais Jane Yellowrock et Mercy Thompson. Je ferais également passer Daryl de The Walking Dead par la porte de derrière.
Website: http://www.daryndajones.com/
Charley Davidson, Book 11
Synopsis: A typical day in the life of Charley Davidson involves cheating husbands, missing people, errant wives, philandering business owners, and oh yeah…demons, hell hounds, evil gods, and dead people. Lots and lots of dead people. As a part time Private Investigator and full-time Grim Reaper, Charley has to balance the good, the bad, the undead, and those who want her dead. In this eleventh installment, Charley is learning to make peace with the fact that she is a goddess with all kinds of power and that her own daughter has been born to save the world from total destruction. But the forces of hell are determined to see Charley banished forever to the darkest corners of another dimension. With the son of Satan himself as her husband and world-rocking lover, maybe Charley can find a way to have her happily ever after after all.
Thanks to the author you can win a 25$ amazon gift card (amazon.com) as soon as you have an account there.
blodeuedd
I do get the not remembering every detail. I am sure if I wrote my bookbible would have to be huge, I tend to forget the small details
carol
Love Darynda Jones!
Maja (The Nocturnal Library)
Darynda is funny even in inteerviews! For a moment I was kind of scared that Eleventh Grave would be the last one, but I’m so happy that’s not the case.
Chess
Depuis le temps que je me dit qu’il faudrait que je commence cette série !
elodie R
C’est vrai qu’à faire autant de tomes, ça ne doit pas être évident de si retrouver…
Dommage qu’elle ne sache pas combien de tomes, il y aura.
Parfois, j’en ai un peu marre des séries à ralonge.
Mais j’adore tellement Charley … Dilemme …
Mariejuliet
Waouhhhh Darynda Jone, la classsssse!!!!!
J’adore les citations des Tshirt qu’elle met en début de paragraphe! 🙂
Stephanie
Glad that book 11 isn’t the last. I can’t imagine trying to keep up with that kind of information, I can barely remember last week, lol.
That’s a great team for the apocalypse. You have a little bit of everything.
Teicita
<3 Darynda Jones!!!
Betul E.
My favorite PNR/UF series!! <3 Thanks for the giveaway!
SNoopyDoo
Great Post , I can hardly wait for the next book
SNoopyDoo
Great interview <3
Wendy Beck
Nice apocalypse team! Great post. Love Darynda’s books!
Crystal W Smith
Ahhhhhhhhhh! I can’t wait! I love this series! Love Reyes and Charley!!
Stephanie
Looking forward to this book!
kimbacaffeinate
This series is a favorite and I devour the books!
Joy // Joyousreads
Ms. Jones. You are a goddess divine. 🙂
Brenda R.
It says, “Answer the Question.”The one about who my team would be? Jane Yellowrock, Mercy Thompson, Adam Hauptman, Nell Ingram, and Tiffany Aching
Victoria Sloboda
I don’t know what q I’m supposed to answer so I’ll go with the last one – I’d want Charley and Reyes, Wraith Seminus (Larissa Ione), Niol (Cynthia Eden) and Savannah Levine (Kelley Armstrong). Thank you.
Kim Morgan
I’m new to the series and read the first installment about a month ago. I loved it! Super-fun read.
Mary Kirkland
I like her books, I’ve only read a couple of them but I like what I’ve read so far.
LilyElement
I’d imagine that far into the series the book bibles and asking others would be a big help! I can see how that would be an issue 😛
Heidi
I adore Darynda Jones and I love this series. I cannot wait for the next book after that ending!
bn100
never read this series
le livre-vie
A cause de toi je suis fan de Charley! Je me suis même fait un véritable marathon!
SHELLEY S
GREAT POST,THANKS FOR THE CHANCE!
La bibliothèque d'Élé
Cette saga à l’air vraiment super ! 🙂
kindlemom1
Absolutely love this and this series! Thanks so much for posting this!
anna@herding cats & burning soup
I really do need to start these. That’s awesome she works so hard to keep things straight between the books.
Melissa (Books and Things)
I love this series so much… especially on audio! I also totally want on that apocalypse team. I’m toast otherwise. 😀
Heather Schrock
gorgeous cover! I love this series!!!!!!!
Christy LoveOfBooks
LOVE this series so much! I can’t wait for the next book. Keep ’em coming!
Sophia Rose
I always wondered how authors kept track of the details when the series are longer like this.
Great interview! I can’t wait to read this one.
Marijah
I love the little sneak peaks she gives us! Im so excited to see how this new part of the adventure unfolds!!! Thankfully when I forget who is who or who knows what I have plenty of friends as equally addicted to this series as i am and together we can figure it out!
Braine
Ooh excited for the spin-off, I hope it can be read without having to start CD, I’m wayyyy behind!
And awesome last question, who doesn’t love Daryl?!
Melissa (My World...in words and pages)
Oh I soooo need to get to this series! 😀
Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum
I really need to check out this series! And so awesome of you to line up all these great posts and giveaways for your celebration 🙂
erinf1
looooove this series 🙂 really looking forward to this newest book. Thanks for sharing!
miki
je suis en retard dans cette série et de mémoire je ne sais même pas dire jusqu’où j’ai déjà lu, je dois vraiment rectifier ça!
Silvia
I had such a blast with the first two instalments, now I need to catch up with the rest of this amazing series 🙂 Loved the interview!
Mary Preston
A great post thank you.
Diane S
I listen to this series on audiobook and between the story and the reader, one of the best series I’ve ever heard. Looking forward to the next book!!!
Gilwen
Oh, un spinoff ! Intéressant ça. En attendant, je suis toujours partante pour plus de Charley et plus de Reyes 😉
Mirlou
Merci pour ce concours.
J’adore cette série !!!! J’attends toujours le tome suivant avec impatience.
Bube
Thanks for the awesome interview 🙂
Emilie
J’aime tellement la série Charley Davidson. *.* Super article, j’adore la couv du 11 !
Stephanie @ Bookfever
I haven’t read a book by Darynda Jones yet but I’ve heard great things!
Cali W.
Thanks for the giveaway; I like the excerpt and cover. 🙂
Edye
thanks for the giveaway.
Julie Murphy
I love reading and amazon gift cards.
Tammy Woodall
Looks like its going to be an awesome book to read.
krysta d
great interview!
Juana Esparza
I haven’t read this series yet, but I plan to soon.
Natalie
I have always wanted to visit France as well!
shannon fowler
this book sounds so suspenseful! I’m so excited for it.
Richard Brandt
Appreciate the behind the scenes peek at the complexity of keeping a long-running series going. Sounds like you’re lucky to have the help!
Anne C
Wow! 11 books on this series and I haven’t read any. Would love to win and get a copy. 🙂
Janie McGaugh
I love this series and have just finished reading #10. I can’t wait for Eleventh Grave!
Judy Thomas
It looks awesome 🙂
Nyxx
Je suis une grande fan de Charley Davidson, vous êtes chanceuses d’avoir pu interviewer son auteure !
Nyxx
Je suis une grande fan de Charley Davidson, vous êtes chanceuses d’avoir pu interviewer son auteure !
Carrie Williams
I would love to have Charlie and Reyes, Ramses via Anne Rice, Anita Blake via Laurell K. Hamilton, and Logen Ninefingers via Joe Abercrombie. That would be a pretty kick ass group!!
Christy
I’ve only read the first in the series, but I loved it. I really need to get started on the rest! 🙂
Raine
Wonderful post, I adore Darynda and have read this series multiple times. I’m very, very happy that there is more to look forward to. Thank you!
Faye Gates
I love Darynda Jones! I love her work!
Joan Harrell
The book sounds great !! Thanks for the opportunity xo
RetiredHsMom
Great article. Thanks.
debbie
I really love the cover and cant wait to read it
Amber y
I think I’d have a hard time picking an Apocalypse team from my favourite book characters, but she has picked some fun ones!