This week Rita Lee Chapman hosted an interview with me as Guest Author on her website (Rita writes the Anna Davis mystery series, and other books). She asks some great questions that got me really thinking about myself and my book in new ways. Here are a couple of examples:
How would you describe yourself?
Well, I tend to call myself a loud-mouth New York Quaker Jew but that seems to confuse people more than it helps. ? I guess I am an aging hippie with a steel-trap legal mind. OK, so, in other words, a bundle of contradictions are me.
When did you write your first book and how did it come about?
My first and likely only book was born in a reluctant acceptance that it was my duty to carry out my father’s last wish to have his ashes scattered at Ground Zero in Hiroshima. In his last illness, he had been increasingly haunted by the visions of those he had filmed. I was a single mom with a young child and a struggling career as an attorney, but I decided to go to Hiroshima. I found a deep tie to a city that feels now like my second home and, in listening to the survivors, I found a new understanding of my father. I felt called not to scatter his ashes but to spread the story that he had tried to show the world of the real effects of atomic bombing on a human scale.
You can read the rest of the interview, including some excerpts from the book here.
Enjoy!
