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Newman worked as a flight attendant for 10 years. Drowning is her second novel, following her debut New York Times bestseller Falling.She was inspired to "go bigger" for her second novel, basing the idea around a red-eye flight from Hawaii to LAX she used to work and imagining being isolated miles and hours in every direction from safety.
Torri Jan Newman (born 1983 or 1984), [1] better known as T. J. Newman, is an American author and former flight attendant. Early life. Newman grew up in Mesa, ...
While working as a flight attendant, Newman came up with the novel's plot during a flight from Los Angeles to New York. [2] [3] Newman wrote down scenes for the novel on cocktail napkins and catering bills, typing them into a computer during layovers. [3] The novel was rejected by 41 agents before being accepted by Shane Salerno. [4]
T.J. Newman made a huge deal to adapt her 2021 debut, 'Falling.' Her new follow-up, 'Drowning,' confirms her skill at crafting gripping disaster procedurals.
Mates, Dates is a series of books written for teenagers by Cathy Hopkins. The characters later cross over into her other popular book series Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise. The Mates, Dates series is about four best friends: Lucy, Izzie, Nesta and, from the fourth instalment on, TJ. They go through all kinds of teenage problems, from boys, bras ...
Gail Pennington of the St Louis Post Dispatch states that "even the most ardent Cornwell fans may reluctantly realize that enthusiasm for the Scarpetta series is mainly a relic of books past." [ 4 ] In Blow Fly, we see a change in narrative style from the first-person narration of Kay herself to a third-person, omniscient, narrator.
In 2019, flight attendant-turned-author TJ Newman sent a query letter to The Story Factory. Salerno happened to pick up the letter on the top of his pile of mail and was intrigued by her concept for a novel about a pilot whose family is kidnapped and will be killed unless he crashes the plane.
In Trace she complains about not being told the building that once housed her office was being destroyed, yet in earlier books she constantly complained about its limitations. In a similar way Lucy, her niece, is derogatory about her neighbor for her house, reliance on security, interest in her neighbors - all traits equally applicable to Lucy.