#WriterWednesday Interview with DonnaRae Menard

I’d like to welcome author DonnaRae Menard to the blog for #WriterWednesday where she talks about her two latest books.

Murder in the Village Proper

Katelyn Took came home to settle her grandmother’s estate, only to discover not only did Gram have seventeen cats. But Ruth Beauregard, a childhood chum, had moved in. Ruth was confused, penniless, and abandoned by her in-laws because they believed she had murdered her husband. Ruth had improved, physically and mentally, but she still lived under the stigma of the Beauregard family’s accusations. Katie wanted her adopted aunt to be happy, but to make it so, she’d have to look for dirt under a lot of rocks, and it was looking like someone was going to throw those same rocks back. Hard. She could duck and weave, but could Katie find the truth without getting stoned to death?

The Wait and the Warlord

A foreign born orphan child, Rhys, is presented to the Warlord Most High as tribute. Her people are savages exhibiting fearful traits. It is the Warlord's plan to train Rhys as a child gladiator for his blood sport. But the wizard living in the castle believes Rhys has a different destiny. Custom dictates every man standalone and call forth a dragon. Only such a pair can rule. The Warlord's dragon is the most vicious ever seen. Never has a girl been granted such a prize.

About DonnaRae:

My unofficial writing career began in the seventh grade. While writing descriptive notes about fellow classmate, I was apprehended and sentenced to reading those notes to the class. The episode went far in undermining my popularity and was the start of my training for the hundred-meter relay. Though it was an embarrassing event it didn't deter my fascination with the written word. I followed the course of diaries, pen pals and eventually to a children's story published in a High School anthology. Though my education was non-contemporary, I continue to attend writing courses, seminars, conferences, and even book signings learning from authors about their works and how they moved through the publishing process. I wrote bi-weekly visual pieces for the local newspapers, one in the About Town column and another featuring my Golden Retriever as the traveling star.

Every job I have had has offered me an opportunity to examine the human conditions that are reflected in my writing.

For twelve years I was a member of Toastmasters International, an organization established to promote public speaking. Four of those years, I was an award-winning international competitor in the areas of motivational, humorous, and Table Topics, an exercise which requires you to think on your feet.

Let’s Be Social:

Website: http://DonnaRaeMenardbooks.com

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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/donnaraemenard

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Twitter: @DonnaRaeMenard