Interview With JM at Fiction Scribe -

It’s one of the great unknown adventures of the frontier – the very first wagon train party to bring wagons over the Sierra Nevada to California. In 1844 they discovered and scouted the route used by subsequent parties of emigrants, all the way from the Humboldt Sink, up along the Truckee River and over present-day Donner Pass... The novel is an exploration of how they managed that challenge, and of what possessed fifty otherwise sensible people to even consider putting their children and everything they owned into eleven small wagons and of walking across two thousand miles of howling wilderness. There’s something magnificent about that, you know.

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Interview with Marsha Ward at "Writer in the Pines -

What one thing do you like most about writing?
I love it most when the story just flows, as if it is already there in my mind, in every detail and I just sit down and let it pour onto the screen. Least – when I go back and discover that something I wrote which made a perfectly gripping scene or conversation, couldn’t possibly have happened historically. I have to work around that – since I want what I write to stand up as historically accurate.

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Audio Interview with Janet Elaine Smith - February 11th

Marketing for Fun and Profit (Scroll down for interview and click on player)