What is your working title of your book?
Change of Habit
Where did the idea come from for the book?
Growing
up in Chicago in the 1950s it wasn’t uncommon that women of my generation had a
few unsavory characters cross their paths.
What genre does your book fall under?
Adult
Fiction
Which actors would you choose to play your characters
in a movie rendition?
Joseph
Gordon Leavitt, Ryan Gosling, Angie Harmon, and Anne Hathaway easily could
portray the main characters in this story.
What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
While
on a date, Sophie Janiewski, 25 year old school teacher becomes a key witness
in a gangland shooting and is sent to Ogden, Utah with a body guard disguised
as a nun in the witness protection program until the trial.
Will your book be self-published or represented by an
agency?
An
agency can find a book written about the early days of the witness protection
program and its flaws with several ethnic slants appealing in several markets.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of
your manuscript?
Change of Habit was the book that I wrote
during National Novel Writing Month, 28 days of “butt to seat writing.”
What other books would you compare this story to
within your genre?
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Light on the Snow by Anita Shreve
- The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen
Who or what inspired you to write this book?
My
son Richard told me to write about life as I saw or heard growing up in the
Fifties and Sixties.
My
Aunt Janet told me that some stories
need to be told.
What else about your book might pique the reader’s
interest?
Undercover
as a Holy Cross nun in an Ogden parochial school seemed boring and so out of
touch the danger that threatened Sophie. Early one morning her tranquil world
was turned upside down when her cover was discovered. She and her bodyguard
began their flight from the mob.
