What was your favorite picture book as a kid?
The whole Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr series. They are Swedish triplets who had all sorts of adventures.

What was the first “real” book (with chapters and without pictures) you remember reading?
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary Or the Encyclopedia Brown books

What was your most favorite book in high school?
Search to Belong by Christmas Carol Kauffman. It was on my grandma’s bookshelf, and I’d read it each summer when I visited her.

What was your least favorite book in high school?
Great Expectations or Macbeth

What was the last nonfiction book you read?
Write Your Novel From the Middle by James Scott Bell

Which book lived up to the hype (from the past 1-2 years)?
Divergent. Book one was awesome. I seldom like the second and third books as much.

Which book do you love that needs more hype?
My three YA novels!
Freerunner (Kia freeruns to shut out memories of past abuse. When her abuser shows up in her life again, Kia’s world is shaken. Now, she must find the courage to stand up to him and, in doing so, also save a young girl from the same fate. )
Catching Hope (Lexi travels to Haiti with her adoptive family for her first ever vacation. When she and three other teens are kidnapped while on an outing, they find themselves held captive far from their resort or any help. Now the teens must work together to escape, outwit the kidnappers and find their way to safety.)
A Thousand Lies (Bailey lives an ordinary life in nowherevilled IN until a school project makes her realize everything she thought true about her life was a lie.)

Next novel on your TBR (up to three).
I actually don’t read print books, I listen to audible as I drive. I am currently listening to the Fin Fleming Scuba Diving Series.

Next nonfiction on your TBR (up to three).
Conflict and Suspense by James Scott Bell

Tell us about your newest release/upcoming release.
Join Abbi Kincaid on her first mission

When Abbi Kincaid obtains a coveted position on the Bay County dive team, she has no inkling her first mission will be anything but routine. Recovering a murder weapon eighty feet below the ocean surface is a simple assignment – until Abbi finds herself face-to-face with a mutilated body.

A second body sets off a search for a connection between the two murder victims. This quest leads to the murky world of high-stakes underwater salvage. But what instigated this killing spree, and why now?

A horrific trail of evidence is uncovered, and when one more salvage diver goes missing, Abbi is pulled into a dangerous mission to rescue him. Trapped by the killer in an underwater cave, Abbi can no longer keep running but must face her worst fears head-on.

With time and air running out, can she find a way to save not just herself but the others trapped with her? Does she have the strength, courage, and faith to do so before it’s too late?

Kathy Cassel is the author of more than a dozen fiction and non-fiction titles for preteens and teens, including 2021 Selah Award finalist Freerunner, Catching Hope, and 2023 Selah Award finalist and Christian Indie Award finalist, A Thousand Lies. Dead Weight is her first adult suspense novel and the first book in the Abbi Kincaid Suspense series.

Kathy has lived on three continents with her USAF husband, has eight children, five of them adopted, three from Haiti, and six grandchildren. To better relate to her characters, she enjoys learning their skills such as whitewater rafting, scuba diving, and riding a motorcycle, but draws the line at sky diving.

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