Amy Tector
Author Interview - Amy Tector
Author of The Honeybee Emeralds
Alice Ahmadi has never been certain of where she belongs. When she discovers a famed emerald necklace while interning at a struggling Parisian magazine, she is plunged into a glittering world of diamonds and emeralds, courtesans and spies, and the long-buried secrets surrounding the necklace and its glamorous former owners.
Author Interview - Amy Tector
Author I draw inspiration from: Liane Moriarty
Author Interview - Amy Tector | Author I Draw Inspiration From
Favorite place to read a book: The tub
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Lydia Bennet, Pride and Prejudice - just for all the gossip
Author Interview - Amy Tector | Book Character I’d Like to be Stuck in an Elevator With
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an author
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: Paperback followed by audiobook
The last book I read: Letters to Amelia, Lindsay Zier Vogel
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Pen & paper or computer: Does anyone do pen & paper?!?
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Bridget Jones ... Her friends seem awesome
Author Interview - Amy Tector | Book Character I’d be Best Friends With
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: gardener
Favorite decade in fashion history: Fifties - they liked boobs and tummies back then
Place I’d most like to travel: Back to Paris
My signature drink: Glass of Sauvignon Blanc
Favorite artist: Emily Carr
Number one on my bucket list: Month-long writing retreat
Find more from the author:
Twitter: amy_tector
Intstagram: amytectorwrites
Author Bio: Amy Tector has spent more than 20 years plumbing the secrets squirrelled away in archives — whether it's uncovering a whale's ear (true story) in a box of old photographs, or working in The Hague for the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes in the former Yugoslavia, she has been privy to hidden records and extraordinary secrets.
She now works at Canada’s national archives, Library and Archives Canada, and is adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa and a sessional instructor at Carleton University.
Amy’s debut novel, THE HONEYBEE EMERALDS will be published in the Spring of 2022. Her second novel, THE FOULEST THINGS is the first in a loose trilogy centered on murders and mayhem in the archives. It will be published autumn 2022.
Amy has a PhD in English literature from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and lives in Ottawa, Canada with a daughter named Violet, a husband named Andrew and a dog named Daffodil. She is an enthusiastic, but incompetent, cross-country skier.
