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January 9, 2025 22 mins
I’d been telling myself: “Someday, I will do this,” but now, I’m putting my foot down to say, DO IT RIGHT NOW. This is your life. Who knows about tomorrow? -Parker Jamison aka Ox Devere While excavators are restoring Notre Dame after the 2019 fire that nearly destroyed the medieval church, they make a stunning discovery beneath the cathedral floor. It’s an unmarked sarcophagus, and what follows is a pulse-pounding, globe-trotting adventure called Rage of the Jinn. The author’s pen name is Ox Devere, one of the most famous pseudonyms of them all, and in this interview, Parker Jamison, explains why she chose it. A well-disciplined writer and screenwriter, Parker is a stickler for research. She poured hundreds of hours of discovery into topics like the history of Notre Dame, the Knights Templar, the CIA, anthropology, geography, and a tutorial on the streets of Paris in order to create a realistic page-turner of a story. Says Parker: “I‘m obsessive. I research everything, and I will do what it takes to get every sentence correct. “ Her next thriller, The Devil’s Eye, debuts this month and is a sequel to Rage of the Jinn. One of five children, Parker’s mother is a former actress, producer, co-founder of Punctuate Four Productions and former guest on this series (check out episode #56), and her father was born in Egypt. The lure and enchantment of that culture, combined with growing up in a house where reading books and using your imagination was the family mantra, sparked Parker’s creative side. Her first word was “book,” and this up close and personal interview with the author paints an inspiring picture of what happened next. oxdevere.com #thriller #notredame #author : author & screenwriter oxdevere.com 
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