Featured Interview With Cheri Vause
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
My childhood was spent climbing trees and reading. I can’t tell you which one I preferred because I loved both equally. Sometimes I’d take a book up into tree. Southern California was where I grew up, although I wasn’t born there. I knew every back road and path to all my favorite haunts. I searched for more picturesque, quieter ways to stay off the freeways, if I could help it. Even though I was experienced driving every freeway across Los Angeles, down to San Diego, up to Central California, and up to San Francisco, I preferred to drive the small streets. It was easy to set my first mystery novel in LA and the sixties, because that’s where I grew up. I remember the radio, the fame of certain jazz greats at the time.
My hubby and I cater to three ducks: Krycek, Mr. Fowley, and Samantha. We also have a Great Pyrenees, Mulder, who occupies a large portion of our hearts. Recently, we lost our Coydog, Miss Scully. I can’t stop crying over her grave. It still hurts too much. Maybe at some later date I can go into who she was to us, and the fourteen years she spent beside us, traveling with us.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve had a book in my hand since I learned to read. Writing poetry was my first foray into the world of words. After that I wrote several plays, and lots of editorials and theology white papers. That was before I sat down and pounded out a real novel. I had to retire from teaching and volunteering to find the time to write a 120,000 words that made up my first book, and that didn’t come until I was of retirement age.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Collette and Somerset Maughham are at the top of my list, along with Daphne du Maurier, but I’m partial to Graham Greene, Agatha Christie, Michael Connelly, Craig Johnson, and many of the great classic authors like: Dostoevsky, Faulkner, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, etc. The list is too long. I like to alternate reading classic authors, old detective story tellers like Hammett and Chandler and Goodis, and dozens of greats from the twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties. I adore science fiction, although I’m more partial to spy thrillers and detective mysteries.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
No Trace is an anthology with many authors in it. The premise is about missing persons and many of the authors are newbies, but I’m one of the old hands. My story is called, “Sacred Harp.” A family who live in the Glades of Florida approach an attorney to help find their missing daughter, known as, The Sacred Harp. He’s reluctant because he almost died the last time he went in search of an Indian boy stolen by baby traffickers.
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