Jacqueline Bublitz Explained

Jacqueline Bublitz (born 1978) is a New Zealand author. She won two Ngaio Marsh Awards in 2022 for her debut crime novel Before You Knew My Name.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]} She was also the recipient of the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) for General Fiction Book of the Year.^[10] She won two 2022 Davitt Awards, for Best Debut Crime and Reader's Choice,^[11] and was the only female to be shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Awards UK in 2022.^[12]

Early life

Jacqueline Bublitz was born to John and Jo Bublitz and is the youngest of five children who were raised in Waitara, New Zealand. She attended New Plymouth Girls High School and was an exchange student with AFS in 1993. She is called "Rocky" by friends and close acquaintances, which is an abbreviation of her middle name Rochelle. She moved to Melbourne at 18 years of age and remained in Melbourne for over 20 years, with regular travel back to New Zealand.^[13] It was during this time living in Melbourne that she began to write.

Career

Bublitz moved from working full-time, reducing her working hours in 2012 to enable her to write and finish her first novel.

In 2015, she moved to New York, the city which inspired her award winning book Before You Knew My Name. After her father's death, and after 20 years in Melbourne, she moved home to New Plymouth, New Zealand to be closer to family.

By 2018 Bublitz was writing regularly. She had completed her first novel, and had submitted that, unsuccessfully, to a number of agents. By early 2020 she had a completed manuscript of Before You Knew My Name. She had sent several chapters to literary agents, and she found herself in a bidding war. Bublitz signed with Jonathan Clowes.

Since 2021 Bublitz has been writing full time. In October 2024 she had her second novel published Leave The Girls Behind. ^{[14] [15]}

Her agent is Cara Lee Simpson at SLA ^[16]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2022-09-19 . Bublitz sweeps 2022 Ngaio Marsh Awards . 2024-09-04 . Books+Publishing.
2. Web site: Berry . Flynn . Flynn Berry . 1 November 2022 . In This Novel, You'll Hear a Dead Person. Listen Carefully . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221102171903/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/books/review/before-you-knew-my-name-jacqueline-bublitz.html . 2022-11-02 . 4 September 2024 . The New York Times.
3. Web site: Debut NZ author Jacqueline Bublitz's novel sets publishing world alight . 2024-09-04 . www.stuff.co.nz.
4. News: Clark . Lucy . 2021-06-14 . Jacqueline Bublitz on bringing the dead girl back to life: 'I didn't set out to write a crime novel' . 2024-09-04 . . en-GB . 0261-3077.
5. Web site: Interview with Jacqueline Bublitz, author of Before You Knew My Name . 2024-09-04 . Carpe Librum.
6. Web site: Jacqueline Bublitz on the Hard-Fought Massive Success of "Before You Knew My Name" . 2024-09-04 . www.mysteryscenemag.com.
7. Web site: 2022-09-03 . A dead woman narrator: Jacqueline Bublitz - Sisters in Crime Australia . 2024-09-04 . en-US.
8. News: Patel . Zoya . 2021-06-17 . Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz review – more than a gripping whodunnit . 2024-09-04 . . en-GB . 0261-3077.
9. Web site: 2022-11-11 . Jacqueline Bublitz on her best-selling crime novel . 2024-09-04 . . en-nz.
10. Web site: 2022 Archives . 2024-09-09 . ABIA . en-AU.
11. Web site: Mem: 7967984 . Davitt Awards 2022 winners announced Books+Publishing . 2024-09-09 . en-AU.
12. https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/05/16/214171/bublitz-shortlisted-for-gold-dagger/
13. Web site: Interview with Jacqueline Bublitz, author of Before You Knew My Name . 2024-10-06.
14. Web site: The Post . 2024-11-06 . www.thepost.co.nz.
15. Web site: Booklovers . N. Z. . 2024-11-04 . Leave the Girls Behind by Jacqueline Bublitz . 2024-11-06 . nzbooklovers . en.
16. https://www.susannalea.com/team-member/cara-lee-simpson/