Featured Interview With Claudia McCants
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Washington, DC, and raised in the Maryland suburbs. I have also lived in Virginia and Pennsylvania, but I have called northern Florida home since 1992, when I met and married my husband.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I wrote my first book when I was in the third grade and I was hooked! I was amazed because I didn’t know that a kid could be an author. Of course my only readers were my parents and my teacher… and the rest of the class who were forced to listen as I read my first mystery story, “Thunder Road.” I dreamed of writing as a career for years and took class after class in preparation for writing what I hoped would be the great American novel. When I was almost 40 I began writing that book. It took years to finish while I raised my young son. When he was 9 years old, I finished Dream Tapestry and in 2001 it was published.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love to read many things, but I really enjoy mysteries and romance. Some of my current favorites are Janette Oak, Beverly Lewis, Jillian Hart, and Donna VanLiere.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
In my newest novel, Broken Angel, it has been many years since Marlene Wagner considered herself to be happy. When her marriage fails, she buries herself in her work at her family’s glass factory, Crest Glass, where she and her sister manage the Custom Glass Department. Lenore Terhune is more than a sister to Marlene. They are best friends, and when she dies mysteriously while working on a project late at night, Marlene’s world shatters and she becomes despondent.
That’s when her former love, Steve Wagner, comes back on the scene. At first, their relationship is strained when Marlene realizes her ex-husband has stayed in contact with her sister, and Steve suspects she has returned to drinking to handle her grief. To their astonishment, they are drawn together again by their mutual love for Lenore, and they form a team to search for the real reason the young woman died, because they share the same thought—it is unthinkable that Lenore died in the manner suggested by her family and the police.
When we are broken, there is only one solution: finding faith and trust again.
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