Award-winning Young Adult (YA) author, Carlyle Labuschagne, recently released a crime fiction novel entitled Infallible at the USA Utopiacon in Nashville under the pseudonym of Bailey Quinn. This title will be launched in South Africa on 29 September, at Skoobs at Monte Casino, and everyone is invited to attend.
Carlyle, who was also nominated as Utopian of the year, is well known for her young adult science fiction novel series Broken. She has published two books in the series, namely The Broken Destiny and Evanescent.
The new crime fiction novel is very different from Carlyle’s usual genre. When asked why she decided to tackle another genre as well as how she chose the name of Bailey Quinn, she said, “I decided to use a pseudonym because I felt it was appropriate for my market. I did not want my young adult readers to read the adult book. It’s a clean novel, it is not erotic or explicit, but it was written for adults. I want Bailey Quinn and the crime fiction books written under that name to become their own brand. “I don’t know why I chose this specific genre. However, I think everyone is fascinated by crime, how a criminal’s mind works and how an investigation unfolds. My story is one of survival.
“Since my primary school days, I’ve been fascinated by the name Quinn. There was a girl named Quinn at school with me, and I just loved the name. It has stuck with me all these years. And, if I had a daughter, I would name her Bailey, because it’s such a nice name for a girl,” she said.
Utopiacon released a revolution anthology written by other authors who attended the Utopican, while Carlyle released an anthology titled Act of Bravery. All profits from the anthologies will go toward helping Carlyle’s Build a Library project in South Africa. This project is part of her initiative to help communities to read by collecting books throughout her travels and donating them.
“Nashville went very well. The first day we had to stop people from buying books at Utopiacon so we could have more left over for the next day. South Africans are more conservative and the number of readers is minimal, but Americans are fanatics about anything and everything. They have a huge number of readers. On any airline flight in America, you will find a large percentage of passengers reading a book. The whole nation has a culture of reading and that is something I would love to take home,” she said.
Carlyle added that South Africa needs to make reading a culture from a young age. “We need to show children that reading is interesting and that there is a future for reading and writing in our country. I can’t do it alone. Bookstores, authors and schools need to come together and realise that reading is an important tool for building our country,” she said.
For more information, visit https://www.carlylelabuschagne.com/help-us-build-a-library.html
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