Jacqueline Bublitz
{{Short description|New Zealand crime writer}}
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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.{{Cite web |date=2022-09-19 |title=Bublitz sweeps 2022 Ngaio Marsh Awards |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/09/19/220626/bublitz-sweeps-2022-ngaio-marsh-awards/ |access-date=2024-09-04 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}{{Cite web |last=Berry |first=Flynn |author-link=Flynn Berry |date=1 November 2022 |title=In This Novel, You'll Hear a Dead Person. Listen Carefully |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/books/review/before-you-knew-my-name-jacqueline-bublitz.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102171903/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/books/review/before-you-knew-my-name-jacqueline-bublitz.html |archive-date=2022-11-02 |access-date=4 September 2024 |website=The New York Times}}{{Cite web |title=Debut NZ author Jacqueline Bublitz's novel sets publishing world alight |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/124777236/debut-nz-author-jacqueline-bublitzs-novel-sets-publishing-world-alight |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=www.stuff.co.nz}}{{Cite news |last=Clark |first=Lucy |date=2021-06-14 |title=Jacqueline Bublitz on bringing the dead girl back to life: 'I didn't set out to write a crime novel' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/15/jacqueline-bublitz-on-bringing-the-dead-girl-back-to-life-i-didnt-set-out-to-write-a-novel |access-date=2024-09-04 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |title=Interview with Jacqueline Bublitz, author of Before You Knew My Name |url=https://www.carpelibrum.net/2021/06/interview-with-jacqueline-bublitz.html |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=Carpe Librum}}{{Cite web |title=Jacqueline Bublitz on the Hard-Fought Massive Success of "Before You Knew My Name" |url=https://www.mysteryscenemag.com/article/7563-what-we-lose-jacqueline-bublitz |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=www.mysteryscenemag.com}}{{Cite web |date=2022-09-03 |title=A dead woman narrator: Jacqueline Bublitz - Sisters in Crime Australia |url=https://sistersincrime.org.au/a-dead-woman-narrator-jacqueline-bublitz/ |access-date=2024-09-04 |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Patel |first=Zoya |date=2021-06-17 |title=Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz review – more than a gripping whodunnit |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/18/before-you-knew-my-name-by-jacqueline-bublitz-review-more-than-a-gripping-whodunnit |access-date=2024-09-04 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |date=2022-11-11 |title=Jacqueline Bublitz on her best-selling crime novel |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018866460/jacqueline-bublitz-on-writing-a-breakthrough-hit-crime-novel |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}} She was also the recipient of the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) for General Fiction Book of the Year.{{Cite web |title=2022 Archives |url=https://abiawards.com.au/year-won/2022/ |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=ABIA |language=en-AU}} She won two 2022 Davitt Awards, for Best Debut Crime and Reader's Choice,{{Cite web |last=Mem: 7967984 |title=Davitt Awards 2022 winners announced {{!}} Books+Publishing |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/08/29/219677/davitt-awards-2022-winners-announced/ |access-date=2024-09-09 |language=en-AU}} and was the only female to be shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Awards UK in 2022.https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/05/16/214171/bublitz-shortlisted-for-gold-dagger/
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.{{Cite web |title=Interview with Jacqueline Bublitz, author of Before You Knew My Name |url=https://www.carpelibrum.net/2021/06/interview-with-jacqueline-bublitz.html |access-date=2024-10-06}} 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. {{Cite web |title=The Post |url=https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350455983/jacqueline-bublitzs-second-act-murder-martinis-and-mega-success |access-date=2024-11-06 |website=www.thepost.co.nz}}{{Cite web |last=Booklovers |first=N. Z. |date=2024-11-04 |title=Leave the Girls Behind by Jacqueline Bublitz |url=https://www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/leave-the-girls-behind-by-jacqueline-bublitz |access-date=2024-11-06 |website=nzbooklovers |language=en}}
Her agent is Cara Lee Simpson at SLA https://www.susannalea.com/team-member/cara-lee-simpson/
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External links
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Category:21st-century New Zealand women writers
Category:New Zealand crime fiction writers