Hero’s Interview from Catherine’s Pursuit by Lena Nelson Dooley

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This week I’m hosting  Lena Nelson Dooley with Catherine’s Pursuit, Jeanette Windle with Congo Dawn, Pam Hillman with Claiming Mariah (no giveaway on this blog ), Vannetta Chapman with A Home for Lydia, and Angela Ruth Strong with Lighten Up.  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 (Feb. 24th) evening.

Dooley-Catherines PursuitInterview with the hero from Catherine’s Pursuit by Lena Nelson Dooley:

1.  Collin, tell me the most interesting thing about you.

I’m the son of a sea captain and became the youngest man to captain a ship for McKenna Steamline.

2.  What do you do for fun?

For fun. Actually, I don’t have time for much fun. I work long hours and then come home to sleep. Besides, because of what happened with the first ship I captained, I feel like an outcast and failure, so I try not to spend much time with people who know about the wreck.

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

My father told me that anything worth doing is worth doing well, so I go ahead and plow through my responsibilities, no matter whether I like to do them or not.

4.  What are you afraid of most in life?

Being a failure, but then, since I already am, I guess I don’t have much to fear.

5.  What do you want out of life?

To be able to live a normal life, whatever that is, instead of the one I’m living now. No woman would every want to spend time with me, because of my infirmity.

6.  What is the most important thing to you?

My position working for Angus McKenna. He’s the only person who treats me well.

7.  Do you read books? If so, what is your favorite type of book?

Living most of my life at sea, first on my father’s ships, and then on the one I captained, books have been my friends. I like reading adventurous books as well as a wide variety of subjects. Books became my schooling, and I’m fairly well educated because of them. Too bad, I lost all of my books as well as most of my father’s collection when my ship went down.

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

I’d like to walk like a normal man. The shame of my failure is broadcast anytime I walk. My limp is very noticeable.

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

No pet. However, when I was on my father’s ship, he had a parrot he’d gotten from the jungles of South America. I liked it, because we taught it to talk to us … or at least to repeat what we said.

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

I would go back to right before the wreck, and I would have turned back as soon as I saw the storm on the far horizon. We might have beaten it to the shoreline that way.