Introduction
Jay Mandal came to us through reading an interview from another author on our website. The two books we reviewed are Pecipice and The Dandelion Clock which impressed us immensly. In this interview Jay tells a little about himself and his influences in life.
Interview
BFK: Have you always liked writing?
JM: Yes. I can remember writing when I was a child. Then, when I was in my teens, I wrote 300 pages of a science fiction story. In the eighties, I wrote two novels, but it was only in 1992 that I started on the short stories which eventually became the collections Slubberdegullion, A Different Kind of Love, and The Loss of Innocence.
BFK: You write very much about the emotional side of a relationship?
JM: I suppose it comes naturally to me, and it's what I like writing.
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