Featured Interview With Jo Horne
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in the far southwest corner of Virginia and grew up there in a small town of 2500 souls. I now split my time between Milwaukee WI and Sarasota FL In between I lived for awhile in Cincinnati OH and Chicago…so a real mash-up of small town meets big city and settles in two places that border water. All of that has influenced my journey as a writer.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I kept diaries as a kid and was always telling stories or making up little plays. I have had a lifelong love affair with books–not just reading them, but the sensory pleasure of running my finger along a shelf filled with them, or opening a new book for the first time–the smell of the ink, the feeling of a new adventure about to begin. Of course, these days nothing beats the arrival of my own published work–that moment when I look at the cover and see my name and know I did this.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I read a lot of new authors for the two book clubs I’m a member of. I prefer historical fiction, but also read contemporary fiction. Most recently I finished Kate Quinn’s THE ROSE CODE and Emily St. John Mandel’s THE GLASS HOTEL. Over the course of my career I have been inspired by many–Jodi Picoult, William Styron, Wallace Stegner, Anna Quinlan to name a few.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
MONICA’S WAR is the fictionalized story of the life of Monica Beresford Wichfeld. Born in Great Britain, she later married a Danish aristocrat and moved to his familial estate south of Copenhagen. To use Monica’s own words, she lived life “at full gallop without apology or regret” through two world wars, the near financial loss of her husband’s estate, raising three children, having a love affair lasting over a decade with her husband’s full knowledge, and eventually joining the resistance to fight the Nazi occupation of her adopted homeland.
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