My Book Addiction and More

Author: klross35

  • Desperate Warrior by W. Michael Warrior

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    Book Description (from Amazon.ca) In the untamed pages of history, the saga of Pedes-klinje-known to the Mexicans as the relentless Chato-blazes a trail through the blood-soaked annals of the Apache wars. From 1877, his name was etched in the fiery heart of battle-a figure brimming with ferocity, hunger for power, and a disdain for peace with…

  • Not Quite a Scandal by Bliss Bennet

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    Book Description (Amazon.ca) Outspoken Quaker Bathsheba Honeychurch knows how difficult it is for an unmarried woman to successfully champion political change. Her solution? Wed best friend Ash Griffin as soon as he comes of age and begin remaking the world. But when Ash’s urbane, aloof cousin arrives with inconceivable news, Sheba’s future dreams are suddenly…

  • Interview with Jane Little Botkin

    Interview with Jane Little Botkin

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    Q. Why did you decide to write your story? A. I had always thought that I might tell this story, mainly focusing on the pageant part of the narrative. It wasn’t until my mother passed, and I was able to  look back in time, that I had the maturity and insight to see how what…

  • The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

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    Book Description (Amazon.ca) Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn’t have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso’s Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the “Kings of Beauty”—just as the 1970’s counterculture movement…

  • Interview with Candace Simar

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    Q. You mentioned you wanted to feature more of the northern states which is why you wrote the story. I loved how you featured the cold winters in the north. Having said that, how did you come up with the characters and storyline for all three? A. Solveig was inspired by my great grandmother, Ingeborg,…

  • Sister Lumberjack

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    Book Description (From Amazon.ca) Bottle fever has Nels Jensen by the throat. Swindled out of his summer’s pay, he heads to the logging camps of Northern Minnesota, only to discover he is blacklisted at reputable operations. He is neither a thief nor a liar, but he cannot prove his innocence. Widow Solveig Rognaldson is left…

  • Interview with Jeanne Cooney

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    First off, I must say I really enjoyed it. I was laughing, especially with Doris and her banter. It was the perfect quirky murder mystery. I do wonder whatever happened to Rose, but maybe that is for another novel. Q. Can you share the inspiration behind the “It’s Murder” series and specifically this one? A.…

  • It’s Murder, You Betcha!

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    Book Description (from Amazon.ca) Move over Stephanie Plum, Betty Crocker, and the residents of Lake Wobegon. Retired farmer Doris Day Anderson Connor and her quirky friends and relatives are solving crime in the Scandinavian-Lutheran farming community of Hallock, in the northwest corner of Minnesota. This book, the second installment in the It’s Murder series, has…

  • Interview with Deborah Swenson

    Interview with Deborah Swenson

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    Interview with Deborah Swenson

  • TILL MY LAST DAY

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    Review of “Till My Last Day”