Summer

I am so glad that we are in warmer weather. Kids are home from school. The evenings are more active with youth softball and other activities.
Yet

Somehow we get bored. In the area where I live, we are 121 miles from the nearest mall. The small towns in our area manage to put together great activities for everyone.
The first weekend of June, Miami, TX has their national cow calling event. They have a 5K and 1 mile run with the cows. (akin to running with the bulls?)
and a steak cook-off with a band and some singers. There is cowboy church and The Follies!
Be sure to go to The Follies on Friday! It features local singers, great costumes, and a lot of fun. It will be worth your time. If you don't know where Miami, TX is, google it and find out.

This week I am interviewing Sherry Polf. I spoke briefly with Sherry at the North Texas Book Festival at Denton, TX.

1. What is your name and the title of your book(s)?
Sherrilyn Polf...A Matter of Trust, Engineers of Flight Series

2. What is one thing you think your readers would like to know about you?
I am pleasant and interesting (I hope)

3. When did you know that you wanted to become a writer?
When I was about eleven. I had ateacher who made writing fun. Don't remember the teacher's name though.
4. What are your strong points in your writing style or methods?
Storytelling.

5. Are you a reader?
Yes.

6. What are you reading right now?
A Trail of Broken Promises by Jess Davon Joslin, The Cat Who Said Cheese by Lilian Jackson Braun and The KJ Bible.
7. Do you have another book that you are working on and hasn't been submitted for publication? Tell about it.
Yes. It's the second of a trilogy... If In Doubt...Believe. It should go to the Publisher by Summer. The time span runs from August 1940 to October 1941. It continues the story of Dena and her engineer friends dealing with blueprints, formulas and general world problems. It also tells of her spiritual growth along with her maturing.

8. What are your biggest obstacles to writing and how do you overcome them?
Not having enough time. Schedule more effectively.
9. Please put a description of each of your books here.
Stanford University is out of reach for most Colorado teens in 1939. The opportunity to gain an education there is beyond nineteen-year-old Dena Caulter’s wildest rural dreams. Yet Uncle Walter, a professor at the prestigious university, extends an open door to his home as well as the Howard Hughes Aeronautics program, and Dena is more than willing to spread her wings. Upon arriving in California, Dena feels her rustic roots showing but easily adapts to a more sophisticated lifestyle alongside her cousins, Emily and Stuart. Life may be offering opportunities and fun Dena never thought existed, but her naïve world is about to get a huge dose of reality. Uncle Walter is chosen to work with Howard Hughes in Virginia as part of an elite, top secret team working on NACA technology, and the move threatens to break up the family with the mention of an unfathomable divorce. Talk of war also breaks up the previously pleasant conversations and laughter that once provided the soundtrack for gatherings between Dena and friends. With opinions voiced, she worries that the boy she secretly crush on—Clay—will be whisked away before she gets the chance to truly know him. Even her beloved brother wants to join a war effort she has yet to understand, and her younger sister decides to marry straight out of high school. Studying blueprints no longer offers the intriguing escape it once held for Dena. Struggling to find balance in a life moving faster than one of Mr. Hughes’ airplanes, she must hold on to the Christian values her mother always instilled in her youth, especially when the bright future of her friends and family begins to dim under the threat of war and A Matter of Trust.

10. How can readers contact you or purchase your books? Please put your website or blog here. sherpolf@ptsi.net or www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore or at any major bookstore, amazon.com and ebay.