Welcome to Facebook friend and amazing author, Ilona Fridl!
Ilona Fridl was born in the Los Angeles area of Southern California, where she lived the first twenty-one years of her life. In high school and college, she took Journalism and Creative Writing. She moved with her family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she met her husband, Mark. They started a locksmithing business and raised a daughter to adulthood. All the while, she dreamed about being a writer, but she hated typewriters. In the nineties, they purchased their first computer, and she never looked back. With some articles and short stories under her belt, she started her first novel. The eighth book is just being released by The Wild Rose Press. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, and a student of AllWriters in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Social Media Links:
Website: http://www.ilonafridl.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/IFridl
What would you say are your strengths as an author?
I love to do research, and try to get the historical
theme in my stories as true to the times as I can. The way I storytell, I
visualize the scenes like I was directing a movie. I've been told that the
readers feel like they were there with the characters.
How often do you write, and do you write using a strict routine?
Running a business with my husband, I have to write
when I can. I try to find some time in the day to write.
Five years from now, where do you see yourself as a writer?
As a woman of my age, seventy-three, I think instead
of writing as long as I can. I've always said, I wish I would have started at a
younger age.
If you could offer once piece of advice to a novice writer, what
would it be?
No matter how many rejects you get on a manuscript,
never give up.
What would you consider to be the best compliment a reader could
give your book?
That they can visualize the story and characters as
they read the book.
What are you working on now?
I've departed somewhat from the straight historical
romance, and ventured into the fantasy genre with a historical slant.
Thank you for hosting me on your wonderful blog!
PRIME CATCH
Someone is killing executives in a string of Alaskan
canneries. Is it natives because their food supply is being cut short? Or is
there another reason, another culprit? With racial tension running high, Juneau
's Sheriff Amos Darcy, a man of few words, is going to find out who it is, come
hell or high water.
Deputy Sarah Lakat, a Tlingit woman, knows her job,
but she wants to prove her people aren't responsible for these vicious crimes.
Her family and childhood friends give her access to clues the white sheriff
would never have discovered, though, and she has to realize justice must be
served no matter who the murderers are.
Amos is married to his work and Sarah was badly
hurt by a man in her past, yet as they work together in the investigation they
grow close, facing danger and discrimination together. Can they solve the case
even as they fight their attraction to each other?
A BALANCING ACT
Lenora LaRue, Bareback Rider Extraordinaire, is the star of her family’s
circus—until a cyclone hits. A main tent pole falls on her during the storm,
and when her injuries require the loss of her leg, her family abandons her,
believing she is of no further use to them.
John Mallory, the young surgon who does the necessary operation,
decides to help her readjust to the real world, against his father's advice.
John takes her to his aunt’s sanitarium in the resort city of Waukesha,
Wisconsin, where the two of them undertake to teach Lenora how to live outside
the harsh circus culture that has been her whole life. He sets up a practice in
the town to be near her, positive that rehabilitation is possible. As a woman
doubly cursed by society as both a cripple and a former circus performer,
Lenora is not so sure. She struggles to learn social skills…but can she learn
what love is, too?
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