Featured Interview With Diane Covington-Carter
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I grew up in a small town in rural Southern California. I now live on an eight acre farm in the mountains of Northern California where the Gold Rush started, with my husband, eight hens, two cats and visiting kids and grandkids.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always loved books and writing but got started with serious writing during college and then after when I worked for a newspaper.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love Anna Quindlen, Willa Cather and so many others. This Martha Graham quote inspires me to write: “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
Tell us a little about your latest book?
How do the unfulfilled dreams and promises of our parents shape our lives and our destinies? During the Normandy Invasion in 1944, my father, a navy lieutenant, took a French orphan boy Gilbert under his wing, making sure the boy had enough to eat and giving him attention and love.
As the months passed and their bond deepened, Dad tried unsuccessfully to adopt the boy and bring him home to America. Years later, I grew up hearing my father’s stories about his time in France and about the orphan Gilbert.
During my childhood, Gilbert felt like an invisible brother, hovering in my consciousness, slightly out of focus. Fifty years after the war and two years after my father’s death, I found myself compelled to write about how his stories of his time in France had influenced my life.
As I journeyed to France to retrace my father’s footsteps, would I be able to complete what he had left unfinished? Could I find his orphan and tell him that my father had never forgotten him?
My this true story about the power of love and kindness spans seven decades, beginning and ending on the shores of Normandy.
In it, I discover the role that forgotten dreams play in guiding us towards our destinies. This book is a testament to the importance of a father’s love and how it change lives in ways that ripple down through the generations.
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