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So Many Books, So Little Time!
An Eclectic Blog Reviewing Many Different Genres: Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Clean Romance, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Christian, LDS and anything else that is clean, uplifting or entertaining.
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1. Author Interview & Kindle Fire Giveaway

Welcome to author Suzanne Jenkins

Suzanne Jenkins lives at the west Michigan lakeshore with her husband, two dogs and two sheep.  Her latest books are Pam of Babylon, Don’t You Forget About Me and Dream Lover.
http://suzannejenkins.net/
https://www.facebook.com/suzannejenkinswriter

Interview:
If you could travel in a Time Machine would you go back to the past or into the future?
Wow, that’s a whopper to answer right off the bat! I would definitely go back in the past. As I approach old age, I wish I’d handled situations differently. I would only go back if I knew what I know now. I could spend all my questions answering this one thing! I’d change the way I problem solved. I wouldn’t be so selfish.

What is one book everyone should read?
The one book everyone should read it The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. The story is about regrets. If Wang Lung hadn’t given in to greed and lust, I think the outcome would have been much different. That and the fact that the break they got in life came about because his wife stole someone’s jewels.

Please tell us in one sentence why we should read your book.
You should read my books because they will take you to another place and you’ll look at your life with a new appreciation.

Any other books in the works?
The fourth Pam book, Prayers for the Dying, is due out this summer, and I am writing the fifth, Come Back to Me. Also, the first of a new series, The Greeks of Beaubien Street is due for release next month. My goals are to reedit Pam of Babylon; unfortunately she does have some typos which readers are telling me they find distracting. It was my first self-published book and I had no idea how difficult it was to catch every mistake. Also, I have an old manuscript; The Savant of Chelsea which I would love to go back to and rewrite.

What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?
The best advice anyone has ever given me was that this is not a dress rehearsal. I was in a situation that I felt there was no solution to without causing hurt feelings and I just had to take the risk and get out of it. The contrast of being in it and out of it was so astonishing I cannot believe I was able to tolerate it for as long as I had! So if you find yourself unhappy for whatever reason, just remember that the time you waste being that way can never be retrieved. Just thinking about how close I came to wasting more of my life gives me the goosebumps.

What is your favorite children's book?
My favorite books growing up were Box Car Children and Junior Miss. I was intrigued with the idea of self-sufficiency that the Box Car Children had and how they gathered what they needed. I was sort of the odd man out when I was growing up and Junior Miss appealed to that part of me that didn’t measured up, but there was a light at the end of the tunnel in which I might belong.

One piece of advice you would give an aspiring writer?
The one piece of advice I would give an aspiring writer is to just do it. Write. Eventually, you will find your voice. And the biggest surprise is that the more you do it, the better you get.

What is the dream cast for your book?
My favorite dream cast for Pam of Babylon would be Hugh Jackma

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