Welcome back for another fun author interview! This week I’m hosting an author you’ve met on my writing blog, but today she’s talking about reading. Please welcome Donna Schlachter!

What was your favorite picture book as a child? What did you love about it?
I loved Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses, particularly the one about “in winter I go to bed at night, and dress by yellow candlelight. In summer, tis quite the other way. I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see, the birds still singing in the trees.” Don’t ask why I can still quote that!

What about your favorite chapter book?
I loved any stories that contained a horse. So, Black Beauty, Misty of Chincoteague, and Justin Morgan Had a Horse were high on my list. I still have my Justin Morgan book.

What was the first adult novel that you read?
I started reading grown-up books when I was about 13. I’d read everything of interest in the children’s section, and had to go ask the librarian if I could read bigger books. She pointed me to Jack London and Call of the Wild. I’d graduated from horses to dogs.

If you could have dinner with any fictional character, who would it be?
Miss Marple. I love how her mind works.

If you could visit any fictional place, where would you go?
Cabot Cove, Maine, where Murder, She Wrote was set. I want to meet a town that should be a ghost town after so many murders 😊

What book are you most looking forward to reading next?
Anything by my dear friend RL Ashly, because she writes both contemporary and historical with a snarky sense of humor and out-of-the-ordinary characters.

Who’s your favorite author?
Agatha Christie. She was the next author I started reading about finishing Call of the Wild. That same librarian figured they were gentle enough for my young sensibilities.

Is there anything else you’d like to share?
I’d like to thank everybody for stopping by today and ask that if you read and enjoy a book, please leave a review online. You don’t have to be a published author to leave a review. And folks will decide whether to read the book by what you say.

Calli works as a nurse with the US Army at Fort Bridger, Wyoming in 1880. When a wagon train full of discouraged emigrants passes through on its way east, a pregnant widow delivers her baby then dies. Bradley Wilson, leading this train, has few options. He asks Calli to travel with them until they find a relative to take the child in St. Joe, Missouri. Calli, drawn to both this dark and quiet man and the child, resists. But when she disappears, he wonders if she’s run away or been kidnapped. Can these two put their pasts behind them and move into a new future together? Or will Calli insist on having things her own way? https://www.amazon.com/Calli-Prairie-Roses-Collection-Book-ebook/dp/B09SD6XPRQ

A hybrid author, Donna writes squeaky clean historical and contemporary suspense. She has been published more than 50 times in books; is a member of several writers groups; facilitates a critique group; teaches writing classes; ghostwrites; edits; and judges in writing contests. She loves history and research, traveling extensively for both.

Find Donna online at:

www.DonnaSchlachter.com
www.HiStoryThruTheAges.wordpress.com
www.AllBettsAreOff.wordpress.com

www.Facebook.com/DonnaschlachterAuthor
www.Twitter.com/DonnaSchlachter

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