episode 137A - Joanna Vander Vlugt - Dealers Child

Overview Joanna Vander Vlugt is an author and illustrator. Her motorcycle illustrations have been purchased world-wide and her Woman Empowered motorcycle art series has been featured in on-line art and motorcycle magazines. In 2006 her short mysteries Egyptian Queen and The Parrot and Wild Mushroom Stuffing were published in the Crime Writers of Canada mystery anthologies. Her personal essay, No Beatles Reunion was published in the Dropped Threads 3: Beyond the Small Circle anthology. The Unravelling, her debut novel, featuring the sister duo, Jade and Sage, was a Canadian Book Club Awards finalist as well as its sequel, Dealer’s Child. She is currently working on book three in the series. Joanna is proud of her podcast JCV Art Studio and the many artists and authors she’s interviewed. Joanna’s novels, art and podcast can be found at jcvartstudio.net. Her Book https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09DCF49Z8?storeType=ebooks&qid=1672775288&sr=8-2&linkCode=li2&tag=discoveredwordsmiths-20&linkId=3c81edd393db2055ed3512b5753885bb&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il Website jcvartstudio.net Favorites https://www.amazon.com/War-Widow-Billie-Walker-Novel-ebook/dp/B07ZY84RCR?crid=2L9OE6QS581TY&keywords=tara+moss&qid=1672775674&sprefix=tara+moss%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-2&linkCode=li2&tag=discoveredwordsmiths-20&linkId=56267903b417ab968d5b00630313278a&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il Munro's Books (munrobooks.com) YouTube https://youtu.be/IunNEcu8pQ8 Transcript today on Discovered word Smiths. I wanna welcome Joanna. Joanna. How are you doing today? I'm doing Joanna: pretty good. We're getting some snow, so I may be out shoveling a little Stephen: later, right? Hopefully not in the middle of the podcast. That'd be an interesting . We were talking a little bit before we got started. Why don't you tell everybody a little bit about yourself, where you live and some of the things you like to do besides writing. Okay. Joanna: I live on Vancouver Island. So for the Your American audience, if you think of Seattle and I, we've actually, we've , I'm thinking of snow. We have been to Disneyland and I just remember now when we were, it was around Christmas time. I am totally going off on a tangent here, but go for it. Okay, love it. So I remember we were driving back. Going through Oregon and there was this snowstorm and we made it through. We have a little Honda element, but anyways, back on track. So if you go north to Seattle, to Vancouver, there is a ferry you can hop on and that takes you to Vancouver Island. And it's the. Biggest island on the west coast. Okay. Okay. So that's where I'm coming from. Stephen: You, you keep saying Vancouver Island and all I can picture right now is Christmas Island. I just, it's like somebody needs to make the whole island Christmas Island. That's where everybody's destination for December. It sounds like a tourist thing to make . Joanna: After. The pandemic. Everyone was coming to our island and I thought this island's gonna sink. Like all of you guys go home, , right? There's other parts of Canada to, to visit. But anyways, I was born and raised on Vancouver Island. I'm called a an island girl. Okay. And yeah, I've worked in the prosecutor's office and actually the office of the police complaint commission. Which deals with complaints. We have municipal police force, so we do have the R C M P, which everyone identifies with the red surge and all of that. But we also have, yeah. But we also have municipal police departments too. And so if anyone had a complaint with regards to the municipal police departments, that would come to the office of the police complaint commissioner. Okay. And I've. Drawn upon my experience working in the prosecutor's office as a legal assistant and police complaint commissioner's office and writing my novels in my thriller novels. So that's what I like to do. And if I'm not writing, I like jogging.