BOOKS BY MY FRIENDS
Saving Boone: Legend of a Kiowa Son by MONETTE BEBOW-REINHARD
Welcome to Books By My Friends, Monette. It’s a pleasure to host a historical fiction writer. You have an intriguing book centered around the early life of American explorer Daniel Boone. Let’s get started!
JH: What’s the blurb for Saving Boone: Legend of a Kiowa Son?
MBR: After young Boone suffers the loss of his white mother, he takes his Shakespeare into the wilds of the 1850s Missouri and beyond to find his Kiowa father, with dreams to kill him, and learns to become a man along the way.
A romantic young adult; rated PG.
JH: What inspired you to write this story?
MBR: I was working on a nonfiction for my history master's thesis that required a lot of Native Indian research west of the Mississippi. I was fascinated by all the different experiences of half-breeds. “Civil War & Bloody Peace: Following Orders” is my nonfiction that developed during my master's.
JH: What one thing do you love most about writing?
MBR: To be able to escape the real world into a world of my choosing.
JH: What’s next for you in the way of writing/publishing?
MBR: I've got a publisher interested in Journal of an Undead: Climax, part of a trilogy, so am scrambling to get it into final edit form. Just finished a refreshing change on Dinner at Marshall Fields.
JH: How can readers contact you?
MBR:
http://www.UnravelingTheMyth.com
JH: What one thing do you love most about writing?
MBR: To be able to escape the real world into a world of my choosing.
BIO:
Bebow-Reinhard believes to be considered a good writer, you need a publishing contract, and yet currently all her work is self-published. She received some interest in Michigan: Copper Artifact Resource Manual but they would not pay royalties. She had two publishers for three novels, but allowed the Solstice contract to lapse because the novel needed a new direction and more intense edit to fit the trilogy “Journal of an Undead.” Its previous title was “Adventures in Death & Romance: Vrykolakas Tales,” but the publisher made “Vrykolakas Tales” the main title and how do you pronounce that? Civil War & Bloody Peace: Following Orders, a major nonfiction she worked on in her master’s program, had to be self-published. After 20 years of research to pull it together and 10 years of querying publishers, all she heard were conflicting excuses not to publish it. From Lincoln to Trump she wanted to put out during the 2020 campaign year and no publisher could put it out that quickly; now in second edition, she got no responses from publishers. Other novels are Felling of the Sons and Mystic Fire, authorized Bonanza novels (publisher retired), and Dancing with Cannibals, co-authored. Her most recent book was considered too local even for the state publisher. She will be giving her first presentation in years on the nonfiction Pensaukee: Voice of a Landscape.
JH: Thanks, Monette, for sharing Saving Boone: Legend of a Kiowa Son with us today. It sounds amazing, as do your other projects! Please come back and bring us up to speed when your next book is available.
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All good things,
Joy
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