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What is the working title of your book?
A Captain for Laura Rose
Where did the idea come from for the book?
I was researching another book and came across a some
information about a woman who was a well-known steamboat captain in the late 19th
century. Intrigued, I began to research a bit more. When I found a photograph
of her, I was surprised. She was lovely and petite—not at all the kind of woman
I had pictured when I first read about her. That began the “what if” part of my
musings, and answering the “what ifs” turned into a book proposal.
What genre does your book fall under?
Historical romance.
Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a
movie rendition?
My characters ended up having a lot in common with the
fictional Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler—at least that is the kind of
romantic tension that plays between them, so it’s been hard for me to get
beyond Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable when I think of a movie version.
What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
Threatened with the loss of everything she holds dear, Laura
Rose White is forced to ask for help from the last man on earth she would ever
want to be beholding to.
Will your
book be self-published or represented by an agency?
I’m blessed to be represented by Janet Kobobel Grant of Books
and Such Literary Agency. A Captain for
Laura Rose will be published by FaithWords in the spring of 2014.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of your
manuscript?
I was working on two books at once, so it’s hard to define that,
but I generally like to have nine months to write a full length historical
fiction novel.
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
- romance ...
- steamboats ...
- post Civil War (1867) ...
- early St. Louis ...
- hoop skirts …
- and a dog named Logjam.
