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We’re thrilled to be talking to Emmaline Cagney from Andra Watkins’ historical paranormal suspense, To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis .  She is coming to us all the way from the great state of Tennessee.  It is a pleasure to have her with us today at Pimp That Character! Thank you for this interview, Emmaline.  Now that the book has been written, do you feel you were fairly portrayed or would you like to set anything straight with your readers? Well, I’m nine in the book, and I sometimes feel like maybe I was too baby-fied. It makes me mad to see how many times I was scared. I look back on my adventure with Merry now, and I wish I could’ve held it closer, breathed it in more, without fear. What do you believe is your strongest trait? Everybody tells me I’m stubborn. Even Daddy says that, and I always tell him I was stubborn enough to find him. Worst trait? Um……..I worry. I wonder what happened to Aunt Bertie. To my mother....

We’re thrilled to have here today the young Joan Heartwell from author Joan Heartwell’s new memoir, Hamster Island . Joan Heartwell is 17, a high school student living in Somewhere, New Jersey. It is a pleasure to have her with us today at Pimp That Character! Thank you so for this interview, Joan. Now that the book has been written, do you feel you were fairly portrayed or would you like to set anything straight with your readers? I like how the author portrayed me as a hero sometimes, out to save my brother, who was developmentally disabled, from a cruel world full of ignorant kids who were willing to bully him for a laugh or two (and in one case, for a heck of a lot of money). But I hate that she had to also talk about how ashamed I felt sometimes to have a brother like him. Yes, it’s true, there were times I went out of my way to pretend I didn’t know him, but so what? Most kids would have done the same. Do you feel the author did a good job colorizing your p...

It is a pleasure to have Jedediah Worth of Deeds of a Colored Soldier During the Revolution by F.W. Abel with us today at Pimp That Character! Thank you so for this interview, Jedediah.  Now that the book has been written, do you feel you were fairly portrayed or would you like to set anything straight with your readers? The story was faithfully recorded as I told it, mistakes in memory and all.  I guess some mistakes with be made when a retired old man is telling his story beginning when he was 15 years old.  I give the book credit for correcting my mistakes of fact, not in my narrative, but in the Endnotes. Do you feel the author did a good job colorizing your personality?  If not, how would you like to have been portrayed differently?    Again, he recorded my story, pretty much as I related it to him.  I know my personality changed from the beginning of the book, when I was still a slave, to the end, after I had fought in ...

We’re excited to have Kristin Kuhns Alexandre at Pimp That Character! Today, one of her characters, Neci Stans, from GEM CITY GYPSY, has a problem she faces and she’s here to talk about it. ————————- Guest Post by Neci Stans It’s 1917 and the world is changing before my eyes. We gypsies used to be important to everyone in Dayton because we trained their horses. Now everybody wants a motorcar. Then there’s the war. America has been sucked into the war. I’m 19 but I feel older. So much has happened in the last two years.  My experiences have made me feel old. Like all those voices crying out as the ship went down. That’s the moment Lord Pool leaned over and pulled me out of that freezing ocean. He pulled Ezra’s dog Theda out too. Theda and I were so grateful to be alive. I was on deck when the German torpedo struck our ship, The Lusitania. It was frightening. The first blast tore through the bottom of the ship and you could feel the deck heave. By then, ever...