Seeing new places, meeting new and interesting people, and taking more than a moment to smell the roses are some of things that keep life fresh, fun and exciting for me. I grew up in Chicago, but over the years have lived in several American cities for various lengths of time, including the Caribbean (which I still consider home), for a ten year stretch.
It was a chance meeting with film-stage-television actor, Yaphat Kotto that jump-started what evolved into my long, awesome career as a freelance writer. We met at a booksigning for a novel he'd written about his African ancestry. At the time I wasn't a professional journalist ... okay I wasn't even a journalist, but somehow I got the courage to ask Kotto for an interview. Shock of my life, he agreed. The article that followed was picked up by a local news magazine, and that was the beginning.
Since that time, I've freelanced for everything from major newspapers to major corporations. I took it to the next level when my first novel,The Secret of the Veil,a spiritual suspense that I'm told is a page-turner was published. To get a glimpse of the book click on my website at WWW.CLAUDETTEJONES.COM <Another interest is the Caribbean, particularly the Virgin Islands. Drop by my blog on the Virgin Islands at: www.livingVirginIslandStyle.blogspot.com