Heroine Interviews from 4 Novellas from Seattle Cinderella by Gail Sattler

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This week I’m hosting Fay Lamb with Because of Me (ebook)Carrie Turansky with A Man to Trust, Gail Sattler with Seattle Cinderella (no book giveaway) and Margaret Daley with Saving Hope.  If you want to enter the drawings for the books, 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 (March 4th) evening.

Interviews with each of the heroines from Seattle Cinderella by Gail Sattler:

Novella #1:

Cindy Mufford, tell me the most interesting thing about you.

I’m a fully licensed welder.

What do you do for fun?

I coach the hockey team with my church youth group. Since there isn’t much ice in Seattle, we skate on in-line skates, and we mark up the church parking lot for a rink.

What do you put off doing because you dread it?

Going over the profit-and-loss statements with my step-mother.

What are you afraid of most in life?

Being stuck in this rut, caught forever in the legal mess with my step-mother with my business and my father’s house.

What do you want out of life?

Freedom.

What is the most important thing to you?

To not be dragged into bittnerness with my step-family.

Do you read? If so, what is your favorite type of book to read?

I love to read romance novels.

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

To be more feminine. I want to share the excitement of a new purse and a new pair of matching shoes with my friends, but those things just don’t interest me.

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

No, no pets.

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

If I could go as an adult, I’d go back to before my mother died and get to know her as a person.

Novella #2:

Annie Wilson tell me the most interesting thing about you.

I am very resourceful and love to figure things out.

What do you do for fun?

I’ve been going to college and then working part time, so I haven’t had a lot of time. But when I can get away, I like to ski.

What do you put off doing because you dread it?

Cleaning the bathroom.

What are you afraid of most in life?

Failure. I didn’t graduate at the top of my class, so I have to work extra hard, but that doesn’t bother me, as long as I can keep going.

What do you want out of life?

To start my own accounting business.

What is the most important thing to you?

Security. My parents had an unstable marriage, and then when my mother re-married, things started to fall apart as well.  Now that she’s widowed again, money is getting tight, and instead of getting a job, she’s doing some underhanded things to Cindy to get more money out of the will, and that’s not right. So it’s really important to me to have a job where I can support myself comfortably, if I have to be alone.

Do you read? If so, what is your favorite type of book to read?

I love murder-mysteries. It’s great that my sister Zella and I love the same kind of books, because we can read twice the number of books, for half the money when we trade.

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

I wouldn’t be so easily led to believe things that I haven’t researched myself.

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

No pets.

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

I’d go back in time to meet Emmy Noether, who was the most influential female mathematician of all time.

Novella #3: 

Zella Wilson, tell me the most interesting thing about you.

My name. It’s short for Drizella, after my grandmother, but shortened.

What do you do for fun?

I recently started writing a book.

What do you put off doing because you dread it?

Income tax. I let my sister do it.

What are you afraid of most in life?

Turning out like my mother.

What do you want out of life?

To be able to live independently, on my own, without having to depend on someone else.

What is the most important thing to you?

To not be influenced and make my own judgment about people.

Do you read? If so, what is your favorite type of book to read?

I read all kinds of books, my favorite is romance novels, but I’ve recently been very taken with a series of murder-mysteries.

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

My height. I’m taller than every woman I know, and I’m taller than most men. It’s awkward.

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

No pets. My mother is allergic to everything, or so she says.

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

I’m a pharmacists assistant, so I am really interested in the origin of medications right now. So I’d go back to watch Alexander Fleming make the origins of penicillin.

Novella #4: 

Farrah Tobias,  tell me the most interesting thing about you.

I have an great imagination, and I’m very resourceful.

What do you do for fun?

I love to go shopping, it doesn’t matter if I’m going with my friends, or with one of the teens I’m watching. I just love to shop.

What do you put off doing because you dread it?

Paying my credit card bill.

What are you afraid of most in life?

Maxing out my credit card.

What do you want out of life?

To be able to retire in comfort.

What is the most important thing to you?

Security. In the current economy, I’ve learned the hard way that so many things I used to take for granted just aren’t there anymore, so I need to make sure that if another recession happens, that everything I worked for over the years will remain secure for when I’m no longer working.

Do you read? If so, what is your favorite type of book to read?

I’m a teacher, so I read a lot. I have no specific favorite, I’ll enjoy an old classic just as much as a novel that’s just hit the shelves, as long as it’s well written.

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

I would lose twenty pounds.

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

I have a fish. It’s a Betta.

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

I’d go back in time to meet Nicolaus Copernicus, a Renaissance astronomer. He was the first person to state that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe.