CHANTICLEER 10 AUTHOR INTERVIEW SERIES with award-winning author, Jennifer Kincheloe   Jennifer Kincheloe won First Place in our Mystery & Mayhem Awards a few years back, but we still remember her contagious smile and her fabulous book, The Secret Life of Anna Blanc. Let's get into it! Chanti: Tell us a little about yourself: How did you start writing? Kincheloe: I used to be a research scientist/mother of two. (Actually, I still am) About ten years ago, bemused by the boastful Christmas letters I would get every year in the mail (this was before Facebook), I decided to write a humorous, sort of spoofy Christmas letter. I spent hours on it. And when people read it, they laughed. That’s when I discovered I loved writing. Chanti: When did you realize you that you were an author? Kincheloe: After I wrote my Christmas letter, I decided to write a screenplay because, in my naïve mind, they were shorter than novels and therefore easier. I had just recovered from an illness and wasn’t working, so I had time to spend on it. When I started writing, I couldn’t stop. It made me high. I wrote all the time. I barely stopped to eat. I would wake up in the middle of the night and write. I took my laptop everywhere. (I still do). When I stopped to consider this, I decided I must be a writer. And, by the way, my screenplay was terrible. Chanti: I love that feeling [...]