Heroine Interview from Season of Bounty in Once Upon a Thanksgiving by Linda Ford

[Love Inspired]

How exciting to have KATHLEEN SANDERSON the hero from SEASON OF BOUNTY-a novella in ONCE UPON A THANKSGIVING, a OCTOBER release from Love Inspired Historical with us today.

1. Tell me the most interesting thing about you.
I'm not all that interesting. Did you want to hear about the private school I went to? Or the finishing school back east that I was attending until my mother got ill and needed me to come home. Oh wait, I expect the most interesting thing about me is that I live in the biggest house in town. Excuse me while I chuckle but Buck asked me what we did with all the rooms. He could hardly believe that most of them were never used. And when I said they were all furnished anyway he thought I was joshing him.

2. What do you do for fun?
I'm guessing if I tell you, you'll think I'm too religious to be fun. But the truth is I like to study the Bible with other women of like mind. I feel compelled to learn all I can and apply it to my life. That's how I got to know Rosie-Buck's sister. That and maybe thinking she was likely as lonely as I was. And of course, that's how I got to know Buck. You might say he upset my world and taught me to enjoy it more than I had dreamed possible.

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

That's easy. I hate confronting or challenging my parents. After all, aren't we supposed to honor and obey them? But if I let them they would keep me on a little pedestal and insist I sequester myself from ordinary people. My rebellion has been gentle and quiet but it's been there. That's how I managed to get to visit Rosie on a regular business.

4. What are you afraid of most in life?
Wasting my life with useless activities. I want to do something important. . . make a difference in some small way. . .even if it's only by making life easier, better for one person.

5. What do you want out of life?
I suppose what I really want is significance. I want to have purpose and be recognized as a person of worth because of who I am not who my father is. I'm afraid I'm sounding whiny and self pitying but I don't mean to and I'm really not.

6. What is the most important thing to you?
Again, you are going to think I am overly religious but I hope you won't feel that way once you get to know me. What is important to me is pleasing my parents and at the same time, living a life pleasing to God. Sometimes that makes me feel like I am being tugged in two different directions which is an odd feeling because it seems they should pull me toward the same goal.

7. Do you read books? If so, what is your favorite type of book?
Oh yes. I love reading especially biographies of great people. Do you know how few stories there are of women who have done great things? Why is that? I think it's because they work in obscurity content to simply do what they feel they need to do without expecting any form of recognition.

8. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Just one thing? I guess what I'd change if I had one wish is the isolation I've felt. I would go to public school and become friends with the girls and boys who are now adults and walk the streets and run the businesses.

9. Do you have a pet? If so, what is it and why that pet?
No pets. I expect you can guess why. My parents didn't think it necessary.

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

I'd like to go back to Christopher Columbus days and become a man and ride his ship across the ocean to discover America. Why? Because it would be a great adventure