Featured Interview With Kenneth Hicks and Anne Rothman-Hicks
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Anne Rothman-Hicks and Kenneth Hicks have been married for a little over forty years and have produced about twenty books and exactly three children in that time. At press-time, they still love their children more.
Their most recent novels are set in New York City, where they have lived for most of their married lives. Anne is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College where, in 1969, as the fabled Sixties were drawing to a close, she met Ken, who was a student at Haverford College. They don’t like to admit that they met at a college mixer, but there it is!
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
We both were avid readers as young children and started writing stories when we were still in elementary school (none published!). While in college, we persuaded one of our favorite professors at Haverford College to sponsor a project course in which we collaborated on a book for children, complete with poems (also not published!). We have been collaborating on novels for adults and children in many genres ever since, as well as photography books and numerous other projects which can be found on our web site www.randh71productions.com.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Anne and I both are big fans of Charles Dickens and Kurt Vonnegut. Anne loves to read mysteries (almost any author) and mainstream books by authors such as Jodi Picoult, Ken Follett and Jeffrey Archer. Ken also likes mysteries, but also likes to read the classics (Cicero, Thucydides, Virgil, Dante) and historical works such as the Shelby Foote’s Civil War series.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
MIND ME, MILADY, published by Barbarian Books, evolved over a long period of time. We liked the idea of having a strong woman character at the heart of the book, and that is certainly Eve Andersen, a corporate litigator who has promised her recently deceased mother that she will close down her law practice in an orderly way and protect her clients. We also liked the idea of writing about a person who remembers bits and pieces of what she thinks is an earlier life, and this concept is at the core of the story as Susan and Eve try to find out the truth. At the same time, Susan has the sense that she is in great danger and, in fact, it becomes clear that s serial rapist operating on the Upper East, dubbed “The Gentleman” by the cops because of his British accent, has both Susan and Eve in his sights. Indeed, very time the phone rings, Eve fears that it will be the Gentleman Rapist to taunt her with the plight of a new victim awaiting rescue.
Eve is a determined, strong woman. But she has enough to deal with in her personal and professional life. But the Gentleman Rapist has escalated to murder and Eve must catch the Gentleman Rapist and stop his deadly game before yet another woman feels a wire tighten around her throat, and hears him whisper, “Mind me, Milady. Mind your master.”
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