Title: Life On Fire
Genre: Fiction
Author: Jenetta M Bradley
Chicago natives, Jenetta and Karen Bradley, are sisters and authors. Jenetta has always had a love for writing and has written and published five fictional books. She also post weekly updates to The SSMD, her online, interactive fictional story of a relationship advisor helping the Single, Shacking, Married, and Divorced (SSMD) while dealing with her own life’s ups and downs.
Her younger sister, Karen, didn’t start off sharing the love of writing. While being a creative mind, English and Grammar were never her strongest subjects. As life would have it, her weakest link would become her saving grace in life. It was during college she wrote her first book to help her cope with the death of her father, the upheaval of emotions, and her changing family dynamics. Writing fiction soon became one of her favorite forms of therapy.
Character Interview
Q.
Please tell the readers who are the main characters?
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Brooklyn is a head-strong senior
analyst with an eclectic group of friends
·
Dante is Brooklyn’s ex whose work at an
elite investigation firm causes a few challenges in his personal life
·
Hunter is a club owner and an
entrepreneur with ties to people who don’t always abide by the law
·
Liang is Dante’s partner who is
fighting demons from her past
Q.
What or is there conflict in the
story?
Brooklyn loves both Dante and Hunter
for different reasons. Two good men who love her enough to work together to
keep her safe when trouble finds her.
Q. Which characters in “are you most
like?
Keep in mind
I co-wrote Life on Fire with my sister Karen. When I think of Brooklyn the main
character, head-strong, full of swagger as she sashays around in high heels
(something I’ve never mastered) I think of Karen.
For me, I
think I’m more like Liang, Dante’s partner who has a quieter fierceness, but is
just as head strong. There’s a part in the book where Brooklyn and Liang are
about to go toe to toe. Brooklyn was ready to jump obstacles to get to Liang
and Liang was waiting in the cut ready for the fight. That scene reminds me of
how my sister and I approach challenges, my sister is going to jump at it and
take them down by the throat. I’m going to wait in the cut and swipe their feet
from under them. Either way they are going down.
Q. Take us inside “your book” What are two major
events
taking place?
Brooklyn is
torn between trying to reunite with her ex, Dante, or pursue something new with
her newly single friend, Hunter. In the midst of this, she is pulled into the
middle of a deranged criminal’s twisted plan and faces losing her life.
Q. Are your characters from the portrayal of real
people?
The characters are a blend of real
people’s personality traits but never a portrayal of one specific individual.
Q. Describe each character in three
words?
Brooklyn – stubborn, smart and sassy
Hunter – loving, personable and
determined
Dante – strong, caring and protective
Liang – loyal, focused and resourceful
Q.
If your book became a movie who would play the characters?
If Life on Fire became a movie, casting
Brooklyn would be the most challenging. For Dante, it would either be Omari
Hardwick or LL Cool J. Liang would be Ming-Wa Wen and Hunter would be played by
either Laz Alonso or Christian Keyes.
Q. Your lead
characters have “baggage” that keeps them from wanting to pursue a new
relationship. Do you think sometimes we let our past get in the way of what God
has planned for our futures?
The past always has the potential to
get in the way of God’s plans. We can become so focus on the past that we can’t
see what God has laid out for the future. The fear of being hurt or letting go
of things and people whose season has ended sometimes prevents us from pursuing
something new and accepting God’s plans. We need to recognize when the baggage
of the past is weighing us down and tripping us up and let go and let God do
His thing.
Q. How do you see yourself in your
character’s story, if at all?
When you talk
in the general sense of living, we all are faced with being indecisive and
unable to clearly see what’s best for us at some point in time. I’ve never been
torn between two loves, but I have been torn between two job opportunities.
