Hero Interview for Always Ready by Susan Page Davis

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This week I’m hosting Susan Page Davis with Always Ready and K.M. Daughters with Rose of the Adriatic. If you want to enter the drawing for the book, please leave a comment on one of the post during the week with your email address. I will not enter you without an email address (my way to contact you if you win). If you don’t want to leave an email address, another way you can enter is to email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday (Aug 2nd) evening.

Interview with the hero:

Today we are interviewing Aven Holland, hero of Susan Page Davis’s book Always Ready. This book releases in August, from Heartsong Presents, and we are giving away a copy.

1. Boatswain’s Mate Aven Holland, tell me the most interesting thing about you.

I’m an officer on a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement cutter, based in Kodiak, Alaska. The book title, Always Ready, is a translation of our Coast Guard motto, semper paratus.

2. What do you do for fun?

Hunt caribou or go home for the weekend and go dog sledding with my sister.

3. What do you put off doing because you dread it?

Telling Caddie that her father’s death is connected to an event involving my family.

4. What are you afraid of most in life?

Liking authority too much.

5. What do you want out of life?

To please God, to serve my country, and to do well at my job. Oh, and a family of my own. That would be great.

6. Do you read books?

If so, what is your favorite type of book? Yes, when I have time. Adventure. Suspense.

7. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

I wouldn’t let my emotions affect my job. It’s always dangerous to let a suspect make you angry.

8. Do you have a pet? If so, what is it and why that pet?

Yeah, back at my folks’ house I still have my lead sled dog, Scooter, from my mushing days in high school. He’s retired from sledding now, but we love to see each other whenever I get home.

9. If you could travel back in time, where would you go and why?

I would love to be here in Alaska before the white men came, to see the native cultures as they were then. And then I’d like to meet the first boatload of Russians.