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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Anthony Caplan, author of Latitudes: A Story of Coming Home

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Anthony Caplan, author of Latitudes: A Story of Coming Home
(Hope Mountain Press)

Latitudes: A Story of Coming Home is the story of a boy from a well-to-do background. The parents kidnap the children back and forth in a custody battle.

Afterwards, while at a boarding school, he reunites with his mother and learns to forgive his parents as he discovers an interest in sports and the opposite sex.

It’s basically a story of a kind of traumatized childhood and how that plays out in the life of an adolescent.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Latitudes: A Story of Coming Home?

Anthony Caplan: I based Latitudes on my own memories. I think everyone carries around a personal story that they need to tell. I was at a point in my Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Anthony Caplan, author of Latitudes: A Story of Coming Home →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Carol Fenner, author of Running and Dancing

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Carol Fenner, author of Running and Dancing
(Red Phoenix Books)

Two African-American girls grow into teenagers at the turn of the 20th century (1916-1917). The times are much different from they are today. The older girl’s sister fled the United States to find fame and fortune in another country, like Josephine Baker.

She left behind a daughter, and the two girls (one is the other’s niece) each experience different coming of age adventures, according to their temperaments. Bertine, eldest of the pair, is a runner, like her sister. But Alma is a different sort of girl – one who enjoys the dance of life right where she is.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Running and Dancing?

Carol Fenner: My aunt (Carol Fenner) drew her information from our family. She (caucasian) was married to my uncle (African-American), and Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Carol Fenner, author of Running and Dancing →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Janet Throneberry, author of Waiting For Monday

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Janet Throneberry, author of Waiting For Monday
(Authorhouse)

Waiting For Monday details the backward, fragmented life of an uneducated family in West Tennessee. Like the area they live in, the Holder family struggles against coming of age over several decades.

The youngest girl in the Holder family has a knack for challenging the family, stretching their patience and finding herself alone in dangerous, even life threatening battles.

Only some unlikely awakening of her family’s conscious or the reveal of their shocking secrets will give the growing child a chance to thrive live out her beliefs. But first she will have to survive…

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Waiting For Monday?

Janet Throneberry: Keeping in mind Waiting for Monday is fictional, I was blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with a keen memory of Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Janet Throneberry, author of Waiting For Monday →