Gabrielle St. George
Author Interview - Gabrielle St. George
Author of HOW TO MURDER A MARRIAGE
It’s Book #1 in the Ex-Whisperer Files Series being released November 9th, 2021, by US publisher, Level Best Books. It’s a humorous mystery, cozy with an edge, so I call it soft-boiled and like to think of it as Modern Janet Evanovich Meets Middle-Aged Bridget Jones. The main character Gina Malone is a relationship advice columnist and best-selling self-help book author, who is divorced, an empty nester, and turning 50. In the true spirit of mid-life crises, she makes some questionable life choices including leaving Toronto to move to the small tourist town on the shores of Lake Huron where she grew up. Gina’s new residence is an old family cottage on an empty stretch of beach that she’s renovating. Just as she’s settling into her new solo life, she advises a reader to leave her husband and the woman goes missing. And Gina finds out she’s got a stalker. Her new life is off to a messy and dangerous start.
Author Interview - Gabrielle St. George
Author I draw inspiration from: Alice Hoffman is my all time favorite author but for the series I'm writing presently, Nora Ephron is my go to for daily inspo. A lot of her quips and angles are dated but she still makes me laugh out loud. Her level of honesty is shocking in the best possible way, and she is cringingly relatable which I love.
Author Interview - Gabrielle St. George | Author I Draw Inspiration From
Favorite place to read a book: Curled up next to the roaring wood stove, cat on my lap, dog at my feet, and a steamy cup of herbal tea on repeat. (Oh, and cookies, of course. Only a psychopath wouldn't want cookies with their tea.)
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Aunts Franny and Jet from Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic (one of my fave books of all time). I'd probably let them turn me into whatever they wanted but I'd most love to gather magickal tips from the witchy old gals.
Author Interview - Gabrielle St. George | Book Character I’d Like to be Stuck in an Elevator With
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: When I wrote an illustrated book about personified blobs in Grade 2 and my sweet teacher told me she loved it. It felt so good, I heard my calling.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: Paperback-- Easier to fit in my purse or beach bag and lighter on my chest in bed.
The last book I read: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. An extremely well written book that I liked a lot but didn't love.
Author Interview - Gabrielle St. George | The Last Book I Read
Pen & paper or computer: I write the book in my head while walking my dog and then spill it into the computer as fast as I can.
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Matilda in Matilda by Roald Dahl. We have so much in common. I named my dog after her.
Author Interview - Gabrielle St. George | Book Character I’d be Best Friends With
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: Artist. I paint very large, abstract paintings when I'm not writing and I sell my work in galleries in Canada and the US. If I wasn't an author I would probably focus solely on my art. I love both art forms so I would hate to have to choose between painting and writing.
Favorite decade in fashion history: Please give me anything from the 1940s. The glamorous Golden Age of Hollywood, a pencil skirt, padded shoulders, and a nipped in waist on a WAC, and anything a mobster's moll would have worn. On men, a bomber jacket over tailored high waisted pants or a long trench coat over a harris tweed boxy suit jacket.
Place I’d most like to travel: London UK. I've been there quite a few times but I'll be back there in two months because it's where my four children currently live. The five of us are spending Christmas in Greece this year so that's my next trip.
My signature drink: I wish I could say whiskey neat and that I always wear a little black dress when I order one while leaning on a brass railing at a swanky hotel bar. I aspire to be that drinker. Unfortunately I suck at drinking so it's a Brown Cow for me on ice that I let melt (I think I'm probably the only person over 16 years old who drinks them). Embarrassing. I can go hardcore on coffee though-- I'm tough when it comes to caffeine.
Favorite artist: Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, Georgia O'Keeffe, Picasso. This is the hardest question here for me. I love so many artists. The first place I go to whenever I visit London is Tate Modern. It fills up my creative well to overflowing.
Number one on my bucket list: It was seeing the Northern Lights but this year I moved to a place where I see Aurora Borealis many nights from September through to May. (There's a crazy group of photographers who hold "Aurora Parties" on the pier in our small town every night from midnight til 3 am for those months-- so fun.) So now the next thing on my bucket list is to take a full 40 hour week of pottery classes with a ceramic artist I adore in Copenhagen.
Anything else you'd like to add: Thanks so much Ashley, for all you do in support of authors and books. :)
Find more from the author:
www.gabriellestgeorge.com
Instagram: @gabrielle.st.george
Facebook: @gabriellestgeorgeauthor
Twitter: @GStGeorgeWriter
Author Bio: Gabrielle St. George (Aka The Ex-Whisperer) is a Canadian screenwriter and story-editor with credits on over 100 produced television shows, both in the USA and Canada. Her feature film scripts have been optioned in Hollywood. She is a member of the Writer’s Guild of Canada, Crime Writers of Canada, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers. Ms. St. George writes humorous mysteries and domestic noir about subjects of which she is an expert—mostly failed relationships, hence her debut soft-boiled series, The Ex-Whisperer Files, which launches with HOW TO MURDER A MARRIAGE. She is also the author of the non-fiction GAL GUIDE SERIES: How to Say So Long to Mr. Wrong, How to Know if He’s Having an Affair, and How to Survive the Love You Hate to Love.
Gabrielle lives a wildly magical life on a fairy-tale farm along the Saugeen River and spends weekends at her 1930s cabin on the shores of Lake Huron with her partner (current coupling still alive and kicking) and their extremely disobedient dogs. When she’s not writing, painting, gardening, stargazing, moondancing, and daydreaming, she travels the world to visit her four fabulous children who live abroad.
