Featured Interview With Judy Scognamillo
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised on a farm in North Dakota. When I was nineteen I ventured out to California to visit my sister and met my husband. We have three children, two grandsons and two-step grandsons. We live in Rancho Mirage now and consider ourselves semi-retired, whatever that means. It seems to me that we are busier now than ever.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always been a reader since I can remember. We didn’t have a TV until I was thirteen years old, so a book was constantly in my hands as a form of entertainment. I began writing at an early age. I was very shy and writing was a way to express myself. After I married I became very busy with raising children and a large assortment of animals so put my love for writing aside for many years. One day my husband and I were on a road trip and the idea for my book “The Hope Mother” popped into my head. I told him “I have this story floating around in my head and I am going to turn it into a book”. Six months later I had a rough draft and then my life got busy again. So, there it sat in my computer for another few years until my children urged me to publish it. I finally did in September of 2014.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I really have no favorite writers; I enjoy any genre, but if I don’t connect with the story by the time I am about one-third of the way through, I lose interest. I enjoy and read mostly fiction and adore stories about animals.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
The Hope Mother is a story of a woman named Pam who dies and when she enters Heaven she is told she must view her entire life before she can move on to her eternal one. She is assigned a teacher who helps her through this transition and they discover that the twins she lost on earth must be found by a search of Heaven’s boundaries. Lucifer had played a part in the death of her children because of his infatuation with Pam, and when he shows up in Heaven, she and her teacher turn to God’s Archangels for help.
My book offers an alternative view of the afterlife and Heaven. And this Heaven’s occupants have problems they too must solve. I include many of God’s Archangels that protect and rule Heaven’s occupants. And there is a special part of Heaven for animals because I feel they do so much on earth for mankind that they deserve a peaceful afterlife.
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