One of my favorite things about interviewing people is finding out which books they enjoy and recommend. It’s not uncommon for authors to have the same answers to some of these questions, but that is not the case with today’s author, Angela Breidenbach. A best-selling writer and genealogist, I love the eclectic nature of her favorite books!

Thank you so much for being here today! What was the first book you read that you couldn’t put down? Why?

I adored silly poems as a little girl. I wish I could remember the title, but I read and reread that book memorizing the poems. Heidi was another reread favorite.

I’m reading Heidi for the first time now! I’ll let you know what I think, but back to you: what was the last book you read that you couldn’t put down?

As a genealogist, The Lowland Clearances: Scotland’s Silent Revolution, 1760-1830 is a book about the Scottish clearances that happened over twenty years. But that historic occurrence is not well known. Since my ancestors experienced the struggle, the book became very personal and a huge eye-opener. I understood so much more.

I can honestly say you’re the first person to mention that book. 🙂 Where’s the most unusual place you’ve read a book?

What a fun question. My dad liked driving us around the US in a camper during the summer. He packed a huge box of books that I read in the loft over the truck cab for weeks. I always ran out of books before the trip ended.

If you could visit any fictional place, where would you go? Why?

Heidi played on the hillsides of the Swiss Alps and lived with her grandfather in a little hut. Though the mountains are real, the setting is enchanted in my memories. Chunks of bread, not grilled cheese (though I love that, too) but thick, homemade bread toasted with cheese is still a favorite because of the feeling and ambiance the author created. The sense of place, people, and love in those pages still call to me nearly fifty years later.

If you could turn any of your books into a movie, which would you pick? Who would cast as the main characters?

I’ve written a few screenplays and plan to write more. One I’d love to see as a movie is this one, Flower of the Rockies, because it’s full of dramatic historical and human emotional truth while exploring little known events that bring a fresh look at the Gilded Age.

I’m going to ask you to answer who you think would be great for the main characters. Just read the description below and consider Emmalee wouldn’t be very polished, a bit of a skeptic while Richard, being a lawyer, is highly educated and would be polished in polite company. Who do you think, dear reader, would play those characters authentically in 1892?

Share five books from your TBR (to be read) pile.

I have an eclectic mix! These are the top of my pile.

  1. Holiday Suspect Pursuit by Katy Lee
  2. The Weather Girls Book 1: Sunny by Jennifer Lynn Cary (and I have books 2 & 3)
  3. The Unofficial Guide to Writing a Made-for-TV Christmas Movie by Heather Hughes & Kate Wharton
  4. The TV Showrunner’s Road Map by Neil Landau
  5. How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman

If you could mash any two books together, which books would you pick? How would you do it?

One of my favorite genres is time travel romance with a healthy dose of adventure. I think I’d mash up Indiana Jones with any time travel novel just to see him use his wits and history in the medieval Scotland or ancient Rome. We think we know all about the time, place, and people until we actually travel there and face reality. I’d love to see Indie get out of scrapes with knights or battle his way out of the gladiator’s ring. He’d win, of course. Wouldn’t that be fun?!

That would definitely be fun! Is there anything else you’d like to share?

The next book in the Queen of the Rockies series, Bride of the Rockies, releases Jan. 2022. I hope you’ll enjoy reading all six books. If readers would like signed bookplates and/or bookmarks, just pop over and leave me a note through the contact page on my website with a mailing address and full name. I’ll get those into the mail asap.

Thank you for featuring my stories, Karin! See you next month with Bride of the Rockies J

Helena MT, 1892-95 ~ Can you leave your past behind?
Flower of the Rockies, the 4th book in the Queen of the Rockies series set in picturesque Helena MT at the end of the Gilded Age. No one knows the real Emmalee Warren, or the sacrifices she’s made for love. An infamous soiled dove of no consequence turned miner’s widow. Men are coming out of the woodwork to stake their claim on her and the mine she inherited. They wanted her body before. Now they want her money, and they’ll do anything to take it. But love and acceptance seem out of the question for Emmalee.

Society wants nothing to do with her regardless of her changed ways. Who can she turn to when her inheritance and chance at a future is at risk? Will she be forced back into the brothel to survive? Hiring a lawyer, Richard Lewis, to save her from financial ruin might let her start over somewhere else — if he can save a little of her finances from her husband’s partner. She’ll go anyplace else where no one knows Miss Ellie’s name. Anywhere to leave the scorn behind. Becoming an unknown is the only way to freedom…or is it? Can she leave her past and build a new future?

Angela Breidenbach is a professional genealogist, media personality, bestselling author, and screenwriter. She’s also the Christian Authors Network president. Angie lives in Montana with her hubby and Muse, a trained fe-lion, who shakes hands, rolls over, and jumps through a hoop. Surprisingly, Angie can also. Catch her show and podcast, Genealogy Publishing Coach!

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