Featured Author Patricia Yager Delagrange

Featured Interview With Patricia Yager Delagrange

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. After graduating high school, I went to St. Mary’s College near my hometown of Alameda, spent my junior year at the University of Madrid, travelled through Eastern Europe and transferred to U.C. Santa Barbara where I got my B.A. in Spanish. I received my Master’s degree in Education from Oregon State University and continued from there to work as a financial aid counselor at U.C. San Francisco. I lived in Santa Barbara for eight years then returned to the Bay Area where I met my husband and now have two children – 21 and 16, two chocolate labs and a terrier mix, along with my black Friesian horse who lives in the Oakland hills.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My mother enrolled me in the Book of the Month Club when I was eight years old. I’ve been an avid reader since then. I began writing in 2009 and have written five books. My first book, Moon Over Alcatraz, was published in 2012 and Taken Away came out on June 1, 2015. I got the inspiration for this novel from Amber Alerts which I find extremely distressing and I always wanted to write about how parents deal with a missing child. I wrote this book in the father’s point of view, from the moment he finds his wife and toddler missing, through his journey to discover what happened to them.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love any books written by Richard Paul Evans, Nicholas Sparks, Joy Fielding, Jodi Picoult, Debbie Macomber, Barbara Freethy, and Danielle Steele. My favorite genres are contemporary fiction, women’s fiction, and romance. The authors who inspire me the most are Joy Fielding and Barbara Freethy because their style is unique and if I was to read one of their books without their name on it, I would recognize them as the authors.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I got the inspiration for this novel from Amber Alerts which I find extremely distressing and I always wanted to write about how parents deal with a missing child. I wrote this book in the father’s point of view, from the moment he finds his wife and toddler missing, through his journey to discover what happened to them.

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