What was your favorite picture book as a kid?
I don’t remember reading picture books…but I did read the comics. In fact, the Sunday Comics is where I learned to read before going to school.

What was the first “real” book (with chapters and without pictures) you remember reading?
A biography of Will Rogers. Really. Then I moved onto The Bobbsey Twins and then to the Black Stallion books.

What was your most favorite book in high school?
Exodus by Leon Uris…stayed up all night one night and read it. My English teacher didn’t believe me until I gave her the characters’ names and the plot.

What was your least favorite book in high school?
I don’t remember ever not liking a book.

What was the last novel you read?
Rescuing You by Robin Patchen It kept me up until 2 a.m.

What was the last nonfiction book you read?
Techniques of a Selling Writer by Dwight Swain

Which book lived up to the hype (from the past 1-2 years)?
Elizabeth Goddard’s Shadows at Dusk.

Which book do you love that needs more hype?
Cold Threat by Nancy Mehl

Next novel on your TBR (up to three).
Shrouded Past by Mary Alford
Deadly Betrayal by Roxanne Rustand
He Walks Among Us  by Christy Barritt

Next nonfiction on your TBR (up to three).
The Grim Reader a Pharmacist’s Guide to Putting Your Characters in Peril

Tell us about your newest release/upcoming release.
I’m excited to announce my newest release is Fatal Witness. Here’s the back copy:

As a child, artist and potter Dani Bennett witnessed the brutal murder of her parents. With no memory of the incident or her true identity, she was forced to take on a new name and a new life, hidden away in Montana for the past 25 years.

Mae Richmond has spent the same stretch of time searching for her granddaughter, who went missing the night her daughter and son-in-law were murdered. Convinced the woman she saw in a pottery magazine feature is the woman she’s been searching for, she enlists the help of K-9 officer Mark Lassiter of Pearl Springs, Tennessee, who tracks Dani down.

Skeptical but curious, Dani sets out on a journey to uncover the secrets of her past and reclaim her true identity. But someone close to her is determined to keep the truth of what happened all those years ago hidden.

Patricia Bradley is the author of fifteen Inspirational Romantic Suspense and two sweet romance novels, all set in the South. The winner of a Selah award, and an Inspirational Readers’ Choice Award, she’s been the keynote speaker at several conferences where she also teaches workshops on writing fiction.

She and her two rescue kitties call Corinth, Mississippi home, and when she’s not writing, she likes to throw mud on a wheel to see what comes out. Visit her website here!

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