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FROM THE AUTHOR: I was told a long time ago that you either spend your life running away from who you are or you embrace it. II came home to the New Orleans things, like politics, and food, and music and the people and all my characters come from growing up among a truly unique group of people; drinking coffee and chicory; and eating red beans and rice; until, New Orleans, not as she is, but as I knew her, said, 'gimme a hug, where you been?'
It is freeing. People want to know who the characters are, really. Like New Orleans, they live in my head. Very few, mostly family members, have any direct relation to actual people. The rest are put together from archetypes and bits of incident jammed together to become something else. That's why it's called fiction. The books changed, or changed me, as we wen along. In the first of the “Jeff Chaussier Mysteries” series, the mystery is secondary to the city and the people, because it's the people who give New Orleans her special character. We're not magnolias and mint juleps down here, nor are we crawfish and gumbo. We're all of that and more.
I never planned a series, but it was so much fun I couldn't stop. Having found Bryna, his love in LIT BY LIGHTNING, Jeff connects with her in EXPLORATION'S END, only to be parted in A PLACE UNCHANGED. SHREDS AND PATCHES takes them to Europe, a long way from New Orleans, though no one can ever leave New Orleans for long. They had to get back, so A-ROVING NO MORE but experience leaves residue which we had to deal with in TO WAKE THE SLEEPER and, since "the course of true love never did run smooth," (Shakespeare) ...issues...
Jeff and Bryna had exhausted me so I took a break with the first book I ever attempted, using what they'd taught me. LOOKING FOR TENNESSEE WILLIAMS is, I suppose, 'historical fiction' set in New Orleans during the week of the assassination of President Kennedy and I'd worked on it off and on for twenty years or more and was delighted to find my love of the story requited b the telling. Of course, Jeff and Bryna were waiting so I picked up their story.
Other non-Jeff writings include a book of verse, MASQUES AND MONUMENTS, a book of short stories, A MATTER OF WILLOWES, featuring a teacher-detective, and an play about Louisiana's former governor Earl Long, but more Jeff Chaussiers are in the works because I've discovered that people are the greatest mystery. 'Who is Bryna, what is she?' She started telling her story in Europe and has grown more insistent. Keeps me on my toes.
Writing is solitary so I collaborated on a travel book with Terry Forrette RIDING THE RIM and on a theatre textbook with Jim Winter BOTH SIDES OF THE CURTAIN.
George Sanchez resides in the New Orleans area with family and pug where he writes and produces a monthly cable television law enforcement program.
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