Featured Interview With Rhonda Strehlow
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised and still live in beautiful northeastern Wisconsin. I grew up on a little farm where we raised cattle, pigs, chickens an sheep. For a hundred years our family has tapped maple trees and make syrup in my grandfather’s woods.
Last year we adopted a little curly-haired dog, Buddy, from the Humane Society.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve been fascinated with books since I learned to read. And I’ve been ‘making things up’ since middle school but only focused on writing the last five years. While I write mainly fiction, many years ago I started a book on Servant Leadership and someday I hope to finish it.
I’m inspired by family and friends, observations at a mall, things I read, oral history, chance encounters. My first book, Second Act, was inspired by a brief encounter that fermented in my brain for twenty years and exploded into a story.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Any well-written book grabs my attention. I read women’s fiction, romance, mysteries, and thrillers. It depends upon my mood. Sometimes I read to learn and other times I just want to be swept away.
Favorite authors include Manette Ansay, Jodi Picoult, Michael Connely, Elin Hilderbrand, Kristen Hannah, C.J. Box, Julia Keller, Alice Hoffman, Rosamund Pulcher, Stephen White, Dean Koontz… I’m always looking for new authors.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
One More Night is a love story. Actually, it contains several love stories.
Honor Horton is an auctioneer who channels the lives of the people who have lived in the dwellings she sells. In the process of selling Miss Hattie’s old saloon she meets Jonas. Jonas has been dead for years, but the love he has for Miss Ruby is so strong that he can’t leave the saloon.
When Brett, a possessive previous lover, decides he wants Honor back, she realizes that her quiet life with her boyfriend is over. Brett is prepared to go to extreme measures to see that she doesn’t choose another man.
Honor has one foot planted in the past and one foot in the future. Can she survive the collision of two centuries?
One More Night will be available in November, 2015 through Melange Publishing, Lulu or Amazon.
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