Ella West visit

Yesterday we had a visit from Ella West, the author of 'Night Vision' and 'Rain Fall'. She was kind enough to come and visit us while she came up from Dunedin for some family related stuff. Ella is also a journalist, and she write magazines and she works for southland times farming magazines.

Ella West is actually her pen name, a pen name is basically a fake name but her real name is Karen Trebilcock. 

Ella basically lives 2 lives because her family and journalist life is one then she has her author life which completely different even her name. 

Ella got inspired to write 'Night Vision' from watching a documentary about XP (Xeroderma Pigmentosum) and it is a real life condition. 

She based this story in Ashburton because at the time she was writing 'Night Vision' thats when we had the huge Earthquakes so that would take over the story from the murder so she had to base in in Ashburton.  

Night Vision is actually re written in Italian and has a completely different cover and everything.  

Steven King actually stole the Idea of putting money in a bag and giving it to someone from 'Night Vision'. 

She got inspired to write 'Rain Fall' from the West Coast because it is 90% rain and 10% sun. There is a road on the West Coast and its called Utopia Rd and got inspired from it.

Did you know that Ella is writing a book currently and its called 'The sound of my heart' and its basically about someone that runs but never can come first in races and she can hear the sound of her own heart beat. 

Its a bit unfair on Ella because she can never get in the top 10 of New Zealand book authors but she lives and writes then in NZ but they get published in Australia. 

When Ella is writing a book she tries to aim for 1000 words a day and she writes about 50,000 words in every book.

The first books that she ever wrote were the thieves series, there are 3 of them as well. 

When Ella writes her book's she doesn't actually need to write them when its completely quite she can write her books where ever no matter how noisy it is. 

Fun fact Ella's First book wasn't actually published.