Selected Questions & Tips

Indigo Bloome is married with two children. She has lived and worked in Australia and the United Kingdom, with a successful career in the finance industry. Indigo recently traded city life with a move to Hobart, Australia, which provided her with an opportunity to explore her previously undiscovered creative side. Her love of reading, deciphering dreams, stimulating conversation and the intrigue of the human mind led her to writing her first novel, Destined to Play.

Q: What did you want to be when you were twelve, eighteen and
thirty? And why?

• 12 - private detective (I loved Trixie Beldon – my best friend and I wrote our own series, Nancy Drew, Famous Five, the mystery thing etc)
  
  
• 18 - after visiting Wall Street at 15yrs old, my whole world became finance & economics and I had started my bachelor of business
  
  
• 30 - having just completed my MBA and achieving all of my personal goals I wanted to expand my career internationally, which I did the next year.

Q: What do you hope people take away with them after reading your work?

• That there was more to it than sex! Hopefully it instigates some fascinating discussion, as it has with my family and friends.

Q: What advice do you give aspiring writers?

• I consider myself an aspiring writer! I suppose my advice, for what it’s worth, is write what you would love to read, that way your passion will shine through naturally. Write for yourself – not what you think others want to read and give yourself time and space to see what evolves before your eyes.

Q: Do you have any new projects coming up in the next 3-6 months that you would be comfortable mentioning to media?

• I wish my mind could switch off to new projects! I have ideas for an extension of the Avalon trilogy - albeit a different story, another one-off story, an entire new series and a non fiction book. I’m really trying not to think of them too much as I’d like to take a month off to get my family life back in some sort of order after the whirlwind of the past seven months and settle in to the new year.

Q: How do you feel about the success of your book? Were you expecting it to be this successful?

• Never in a million years! I was nervous and embarrassed when five people read my draft manuscript let
  alone hundreds of thousands across the globe. I’m not sure how I feel, I’m definitely looking forward to
  learning more about the industry and actually meeting some readers. I haven’t done any book signings or
  conferences so it is all completely new to me and as yet, unchartered territory. I don’t think it will feel ‘real’
  until my life changes in some way. At the moment life goes on – cooking, cleaning, laundry, school drop offs
  and pick ups - just like millions of other mothers, though now I’m far more active on Facebook and Twitter.

Q: If the books were made into films, who would play Alexandra?

• No doubt there are many opinions about who would play Alexandra and each reader has their own image in mind! When I started writing I always imagined her as a green-eyed Catherine Zeta Jones – gorgeous and voluptuous. As I continued writing and watched movies, actors such as Rachel Weisz and Marion Cotilland would come to mind. I have no doubt there are also plenty of ‘non-Hollywood’ actors who would be fabulous if the opportunity ever presented itself.