BLOGWORDS – Thursday 9 October 2025 – CHAT THURSDAY – JORDYN REDWOOD

BLOGWORDS – Thursday 9 October 2025 – CHAT THURSDAY – JORDYN REDWOOD

CHAT THURSDAY – JORDYN REDWOOD

 

Please give a warm feathered welcome to author and friend, Jordyn Redwood.

 

rem:  Hullo Jordyn, and welcome. Tell us three random things about yourself.

JORDYN: I own 17 tarantulas. I broke both my ankles falling down the stairs a few years ago. I love to cross stitch and watch true crime or scary movies to relax.
 

rem:  17, eh?? LOL What is your favorite quotation and why?
JORDYN:  This quote has been attributed to a few sources, but it is “Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.” For me, it keeps me grounded that things generally fall in the middle and it helps me to keep my emotions from swinging too far to one side or the other.

 

rem:  There’s wisdom in that. When reading, what makes or breaks a story for you? Your fiction pet peeve?

JORDYN:  My fiction pet peeve is a slow and/or uninteresting start to the book. As a suspense author, I want to be sucked into that plot in the first five pages at the most and if I’m fifty pages in and nothing is really happening to engage me as a reader (emotional connection, intrigue, engaging plot) I’m not likely to finish the novel. 

rem:  Oh yes, it’s quite difficult, if not impossible, to keep reading when there’s nothing to hold your interest. What are you reading right now? 

JORDYN:  Right now, I’m reading The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz. Just finished The Writer by James Patterson and thoroughly enjoyed it!

 

rem:  I’ve not heard the name Jean Hanff Korelitz, but James Patterson is a master. Tell us a little about your writing journey.

JORDYN:  I’ve always loved writing stories since I was a young girl. My first short story was about a rabbit that had to go to the hospital and since I couldn’t spell hospital I wrote “hoppyital,” rem: love it! I guess I was always destined to do both medicine and writing. When I graduated college, for ten years I just focused on my nursing career. When I didn’t achieve a flight nursing position, I turned back to my love of writing. From that point it took about ten years to learn the craft of writing, get an agent, and secure by first publishing contract.

rem:  And you do it so well. What genre(s) do you write and why?

JORDYN:  I write medical thrillers, suspense, and romantic suspense. Nursing and writing have worked well together for me. Nursing gives me medical knowledge for my stories and writing gives me an emotional outlet for all the things I’ve witnessed in nursing.

rem: Nursing and writing works well for your readers, as well.   Tell us a little about your latest book? What is your current project?

JORDYN:  My novella, Abandoned Into Darkness, is part of the Don’t Blink Box set which contains twelve inspirational NEW suspense thrillers from an amazing group of authors. It was released just this week. With my contribution, I wanted to challenge myself to write a character who had lost one of their five senses—in this case—the heroine loses her sight because of an injury resulting from a violent attack.

 

 

Here’s a short blurb:
Blinded from an attack and abandoned in the Black Canyon by search and rescue, Isla Thorne must still flee a serial killer.

 

rem:  OY! Jordyn, that’s intense! What is YOUR favorite part about the book or why do you love this book? Why should we read it?

JORDYN: If you love suspense, you’ll definitely enjoy the roller coaster ride that is Abandoned Into Darkness. The setting in The Blank Canyon of the Gunnison is unique for me and represents my home state of Colorado. The heroine’s emotional journey is my favorite part of the story.   

rem:  What were you saying earlier about a story holding the reader’s attention? #rollercoaster

What is one take-away from your book(s) that you hope readers identify with? 

JORDYN:  Abandoned Into Darkness centers on Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” For me, this novella dives into that deep mystery of the good things that can come out of tragedy.

 

rem:  Yes and Amen! One more and then we’ll close. Do you have a life Scripture?

JORDYN: Joshua 24:15 which embodies “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

 

rem:  Oh, I love that one, also. Anything you’d like to add?

JORDYN:  Thanks so much for hosting me today, Robin! I hope your readers love the story.

rem:  My pleasure, Jordyn. Always glad to chat with you on my blog today!

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jordyn Redwood is a nurse by day, a novelist by night. She has specialized in critical care and emergency nursing for over thirty years. As a self-professed medical nerd, she reads medical textbooks for fun. This led to the creation of Redwood's Medical Edge-- a blog devoted to helping authors write medically accurate fiction. Jordyn loves to weave medical mystery into her storylines and see how her characters navigate through the chaos she creates. Jordyn lives in Colorado with her fabulous husband, two wonderful daughters, one crazy border collie, and numerous tarantulas.

 

#Blogwords, Chat Thursday, Interview, Jordyn Redwood, The Sequel, The Writer, “hoppyital,” Abandoned Into Darkness, #rollercoaster, Romans 8:28, Joshua 24:15