Featured Interview With E T McNamara
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
A native New Yorker, I was raised in the Bronx and Long Island. After retirement I moved to Pennsylvania. Although currently “pet free,” I have had numerous dogs throughout the years including two collies, a Siberian husky and a yellow lab/golden retriever mix. As a child growing up on Long Island, I also had the usual assortment of canaries, parakeets, a duck, turtles and rabbits.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always enjoyed reading books. Despite writing fiction, I probably read more non-fiction. I find it useful to use in my novels which are a blend of 20th century American history and romance. I first started writing about twenty years ago, but it wasn’t until the pandemic that I started publishing my novels. I have published three and expect to have the fourth book ready this fall.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I particularly like Tom Clancy, Erik Larson, and Nicholas Sparks which covers a wide range of genres. I am inspired by the people I have been fortunate to know during my lifetime. I find it easy to inject their positive traits into the characters of my novels. My wife has definitely been the inspiration for some of the lead female protagonists.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
When a recent Vietnam widow finds an unmailed letter from twenty-five years earlier, she is fascinated with finding the sender and the intended recipient, a WW2 Naval aviator and a “Rosie the Riveter” factory worker. Drawn into the love story of the two individuals from 1944, she embarks on a journey to find and hopefully reunite the two. Taking place just a couple of weeks before Christmas, she is unaware of the positive impact her quest is having on her own troubled life. If you love romance, you will find it twice with some little-known facts of mid-20th American century history thrown in.
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