Featured Interview With Teresa Blue
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Although I was born in the large city of Chicago, I grew up in a small, no-light town where folks really did know everyone. I currently live in a rural country setting with four dogs and love waiting hand and foot on each of them. I have a rooster named Elvis, nine hens, and a garden large enough to feed all my family and friends. When I do find a spare minute, I write about what else…family and the ties that bind them. I’m blessed and I know it.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
From the moment I discovered those paperback novels, my adventures began. By high school I had sailed the high seas with Captains and rode the English countryside with highwaymen, robbed stages– well, you get the idea. I fell head over heels in love reading romance. And for awhile reading was enough, until the day it wasn’t. For whatever reason, I picked up a pen and just wrote. And I’ve been at it ever since.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Kathleen Woodiwiss swept me off my feet with “The Flame and the Flower” and quickly sent me on the path of devouring every romance book my teenage fingers could grasp. I soon discovered greats such as Johanna Lindsey, Laurie McBain, Beatrice Small and countless others. Romance novels gave me a high standard of how love between couples could be and what kind of hero would fill my heart.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Letters From Inside:
The trenches of parenting can get down right dirty, as single mom, Linda Wheeler is finding out. Her biggest challenge- to keep her teenage daughter, Jessica, out of jail. Although community service is hardly a prison sentence, this single mom is about to come face to face a product of the system.
Troubled Jessie blames her mom for breaking up their family and is determined to make her pay. Jessie doesn’t believe her dad is the bad guy her mom makes him out to be and sets out to prove the difference between a good man and the bad. She recruits a prison pen-pal unaware that he’s recently been granted parole. By cleverly signing her mom’s name to the letters, she’s supplied the criminal with a purpose: find the author and claim her for his own.
Carl Jenkins has spent the last seven years as an inmate at Jackson State Prison. Even violent offenders make parole, leaving Detective Tom Harrington furious as the man who brutally raped his sister walks out of prison a free man. Tom vows to see the felon back behind bars where he belongs. But it isn’t long before all eyes turn to a rural farmhouse and a struggling single mom. Jenkins has a new target, and it’s up to Tom to keep them safe, or is history doomed to repeat itself?
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Loved getting to know more about you, Teresa. And I look forward to reading your novels. Letters from the Inside promises suspense, chills, and romance. Much continued success!