Jill
Wallace was born and bred (her mother would prefer ‘brought up’) in South
Africa, and lived the second half of her life in America. She feels like the
African baobab or “Upside Down Tree”, with roots that look like branches. Like
the confused baobab, she no longer knows where the South African ends and the
American begins. She’s comfortable in her duality and hopes like hell it
affords her some degree of complexity. A girl can always hope :o)
Sometimes,
she loves dogs more than people, chocolate more than good sense, and Netflix
binge-watching more than house cleaning (well… make the latter ALL the time!)
Jill’s
addicted to writing. Expect her novels to have a South African flair, and no
matter the century of her characters, she’ll strive to keep their situations
relevant and their emotions real.
Wallace
listens to the voices in her head which describe their dilemma and state of
chaos. Then she waits, pen poised, to see what they’ll do about it. She records
how they find the courage and strength to attain what they really
want—be it friendship, peace, acceptance, or everlasting love. That’s the magic
that keeps her heart pounding in her throat and her fingers flirting with keys.
Jill
started her writing career as a screenwriter. Her first script was twice
optioned by producers for movies. When disappointment flooded in and dreams
collapsed, an author friend said, “To hell with them all. Write a book.” So,
she did. It took her three years.
War Serenade is inspired
by a true story about a bon vivant Italian opera star forced into WWII, who is
shot down, captured by the allies and sent to a run-down POW camp in South
Africa. Broken and longing for death, he sees a spunky red head through the
barbed wire and when their eyes meet, she becomes his reason to live. But he is
a prisoner, and she, his enemy…
War Serenade won a
number of awards, the most recent are the Golden Quill Contest Winner Desert
Rose RWA, Maggie and Rone Awards 2020, for best audio book.
Zebra is Jill’s
second novel and largely based on her husband’s experiences. Athol grew up in a
remote resort in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa during the apartheid
era and fought in the Bush Wars in the 60’s and 70’s. This literary
fiction/historical/action adventure/coming-of-age saga spans 4 decades. Though
the times are incendiary, Zebra is not about politics but a divine, true
bond of friendship. Zebra. Friends by Fate. Enemies by Destiny proudly
wore the Amazon Banner for #1 New Release and is also a ***** Reader’s
Favorite.
Time Flies is Jill’s
first series. The common threads with her stand-alone books are the South
African infusion, the dog-hero, friendship, impossible challenges and complex
timelines.
Timeless Beginnings is Book 1 of the series has multiple and it’s the
story of how five ex-air hostesses end up at the home of Lucky, now a FBI
psychic, who’s keen to try -as a last resort - past life regression to find the
soulmate she lost after she dreamed about him in the crew rest of a 747 in the
80’s. Four other ex-hosties are just as anxious to find their centuries-ago
soulmates.
Timeless Pirouette is Book II and the story of Brie who dreams she
was a beautiful ballerina who fell in love with a beggar in 1887. Though she
believes she met and married the perfect man for her, she fights an
incomprehensible guilt and can’t help yearning for her beggar. She is compelled
to go back a century before she can go forward.
Jill is in the process of finishing up Athol’s
companion novel to Zebra. Titled Leopard Crawl it’s the true-story-inspired
missions of one man on a solitary spying sojourn in the heart of the Southern
African Bush Wars.
Learn more about the author and her books at
http://www.jillwallace.com
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