#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Judy Penz Sheluk and Friends
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I’d like to welcome author and editor, Judy Penz Sheluk, back to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday, with her friends: John Floyd, Chris Wheatley, Christine Eskilson, Peggy Rothschild, Gustavo Bondoni, Joseph S. Walker, and Robb T. White.
JOHN M. FLOYD, ‘Blackjack Road’
Things you love about writing: Plotting, writing dialogue
Things you hate about writing: Marketing, promotion, contracts
CHRIS WHEATLEY, ‘The Angel of Maastricht’
Favorite beverage: I’m English, it must be a nice cup of tea. That’s law.
Something that gives you a sour face: Tomato juice. Never tried it. God willing, I never will.
CHRISTINE ESKILSON, ‘For Elizabeth’
Something you wish you could do: Carry a tune in a song
Something you wish you’d never learned to do: Play tennis. If I didn’t love the game so much I definitely would quit because my hand-eye coordination leaves much to be desired!
PEGGY ROTHSCHILD, ‘Burning Desire’
Last best thing you ate: Dark chocolate with mint
Last thing you regret eating: Dark chocolate with mint (it’s a complicated relationship!)
GUSTAVO BONDONI, ‘Checkmate Charlie’
Things to say to an author: That was spectacularly well written.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: I know I’ve never sold a single word of fiction, but you used too many adjectives – for example, did you really need ‘spectacularly’ in the answer above? Haven’t you read the latest fashionable writing book?
JOSEPH S. WALKER, ‘Pink Hearts Pierced by Arrows’
Favorite places you’ve been: I’ve been lucky enough to travel quite a bit in the last few years, and giving that up—at least for the time being—has been one of the most difficult aspects of our current age of social isolation. I very much look forward to the next time I’ll be able to get off a plane in a city I’ve never seen before. I’ll list a few quick treasured memories here: my first view of the Grand Canyon from the south rim; eating fresh beignets in Jackson Square in New Orleans; and sitting by the fountain in Savannah’s Forsyth Park, letting time slip away.
Places you never want to go to again: I taught in Alabama for several years, and I loved a lot of things about it, and many of the people I met. With that said, I will be very happy if I never have to be that far south in July or August again!
JUDY PENZ SHELUK, ‘Gouligans’
Favorite books (or genre): Mystery / Suspense: John Sandford’s Prey and Virgil Flowers series; Sue Grafton A through Y; Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot
Books you wouldn’t buy: Sci Fi. I may be the only person on the planet who hasn’t seen Star Wars.
ROBB T. WHITE, ‘See You In Court’
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Going sailing at 18 on the J. Burton Ayers, a Great Lakes ore carrier.
Something you chickened out from doing: Telling my parents I'd crashed my car the night before I left town to go sailing on the Ayers.
JUDY PENZ SHELUK, Editor
The nicest thing a reader said to you: You’re my favorite author. One day, you’ll be on Ellen DeGeneres’ show. (I’m practicing my dance moves, just in case.)
The craziest thing a reader said to you: Him (at a bookstore event): “Hmmm, a Glass Dolphin mystery. I was on a submarine once, too.”
Me: “The Glass Dolphin is an antiques shop, not a submarine.”
Him: “So the antiques shop is inside of a submarine? That’s a unique concept.”
Me: “Yes, yes it is.”
PS He didn’t buy the book.
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About the Anthology, Heart Breaks and Half-Truths
Book blurb: Lovers and losers.
Whether it’s 1950s Hollywood, a scientific experiment, or a yard sale in suburbia, the twenty-two authors represented in this collection of mystery and suspense interpret the overarching theme of “heartbreaks and half-truths” in their own inimitable style, where only one thing is certain: Behind every broken heart lies a half-truth.
And behind every half-truth lies a secret.
Edited by Judy Penz Sheluk. Featuring authors Sharon Hart Addy, Paula Gail Benson, James Blakey, Gustavo Bondoni, Susan Daly, Buzz Dixon, Rhonda Eikamp, Christine Eskilson, Tracy Falenwolfe, Kate Flora, John M. Floyd, J.A. Henderson, Blair Keetch, Steve Liskow, Edward Lodi, Judy Penz Sheluk, KM Rockwood, Peggy Rothschild, Joseph S. Walker, James Lincoln Warren, Chris Wheatley and Robb T. White.
Release Date: June 18
Publisher: Superior Shores Press
Amazon (trade paperback and Kindle): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088ZGF18Y
Barnes & Noble (trade paperback):
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1137064575?ean=9781989495223
