What are you most proud of in your personal life?
MY SON
What books did you love growing up?
A.A.MILNE, ANYTHING ILLUSTRATED BY N. C. WYETH, DOCTOR DOOLITTLE, MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS, E. B. WHITE
Who is your favorite author?
COLUM MCCANN
What book genre of books do you adore?
MEMOIR
What book should everybody read at least once?
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Is there any books you really don’t enjoy?
CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
What do you hope your obituary will day about you?
I JUST HOPE MY NAME IS SPELLED RIGHT
Location and life experiences can really influence writing, tell us where you grew up and where you now live?
I
GREW UP IN VIRGINIA WHERE THE WINTERS WERE TOUGH, THE SUMMERS LONG, HOT
AND HUMID AND THE PEOPLE RICH IN SPIRIT. I CURRENTLY LIVE IN CT WHERE
THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY IS JUST ABOUT BEHIND EVERY TREE
How did you develop your writing?
I’VE
ALWAYS TRIED TO LISTEN FOR THE DIALOGUE AND STORY LINE RATHER THAN
MANUFACTURE IT. I ALSO TRIED MY HARDEST TO LISTEN TO CONSTRUCTIVE
CRITICISM, “CONSTRUCTIVE” BEING THE OPERATIVE WORD.
Where do you get your inspiration from?
THAT WHICH I HEAR AND SEE
What is hardest – getting published, writing or marketing?
FOR
ME MARKETING IS BY HARD THE HARDEST. I AM NOT A PERSON WHO CAN PROMOTE
HIMSELF EASILY. IN FACT IN THE PAST IN MY MARKETING EFFORTS I’VE USUALLY
DONE MYSELF MORE HARM THAN GOOD!
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A sailor and his family’s harrowing and inspiring story of their attempt to sail the treacherous Northwest Passage.
Sprague
Theobald, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and expert sailor with
over 40,000 offshore miles under his belt, always considered the
Northwest Passage–the sea route connecting the Atlantic to the
Pacific–the ultimate uncharted territory. Since Roald Amundsen completed
the first successful crossing of the fabled Northwest Passage in 1906,
only twenty-four pleasure craft have followed in his wake. Many more
people have gone into space than have traversed the Passage, and a
staggering number have died trying. From his home port of Newport, Rhode
Island, through the Passage and around Alaska to Seattle, it would be
an 8,500-mile trek filled with constant danger from ice, polar bears,
and severe weather.
What
Theobald couldn’t have known was just how life-changing his journey
through the Passage would be. Reuniting his children and stepchildren
after a bad divorce more than fifteen years earlier, the family embarks
with unanswered questions, untold hurts, and unspoken mistrusts hanging
over their heads. Unrelenting cold, hungry polar bears, and a haunting
landscape littered with sobering artifacts from the tragic Franklin
Expedition of 1845, as well as personality clashes that threaten to tear
the crew apart, make The Other Side of the Ice a harrowing story of
survival, adventure, and, ultimately, redemption.
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Buy Now @ Amazon
Genre – Memoir, adventure, family, climate
Rating – PG
More details about the author
Website www.spraguetheobald.com
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