Not willing to say no to such a tempting challenge, Jean went and handed her manuscripts out in a room full of Zane fans and book clubs began talking! She met her soon-to-be publisher that weekend. She pushed Jean to print several copies of her manuscript and she even paid for her attendance to the National Book Club Conference in Atlanta, GA. In 2004, Lori once again challenged Jean to introduce Ace of Hearts to the world. Over the next two decades the manuscript matured with technology, going from long hand to typewriter to word processor and finally to computer in 2003. In 1980, she wrote the first draft of Ace of Hearts longhand. She later met her second, current, and final husband, Fred. They’ve been together over 46 years.Īccepting her sister's bet would prove more challenging than easily merging her love for reading great horror and mystery classics. Needless to say, she was a wife and mother at seventeen and divorced at twenty. Jean's biological mother died when she was thirteen, the age when puberty reared its ugly head. Jean sometimes felt more at home in their cleverly crafted worlds than in her own. Stephen King and Dean Koontz are her ultimate tour guides and honorable mentions go to Jean Auel and Agatha Christie. She let the words carry her away to places only her imagination could take her. Her sister, Lori said, "You read so much, I bet you could write a book" and Jean answered, "I bet I could." Her oldest memories are of reading. Jean Holloway's debut novel Ace of Hearts started over 30 years ago in answer to a bet.
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