Featured Interview With Author Susan Reinhardt
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Susan Reinhardt grew up in LaGrange, GA. and Spartanburg, S.C.where most girls twirled batons, entered beauty pageants, and became debutantes. She now lives near Asheville, N.C. in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.
Bucking the norm, Susan spent her free time water skiing almost every day, fishing, and pining for a ragamuffin boy who was always up to no good.
Earlier in her college years, she pursued nursing, but most of her patients were terminal and her mastery and frequency of giving enemas had her questioning this line of work, though she adores nurses and often wishes she’d have stuck with the field.
She recently took a part-time job caring for adults with disabilities and loves the work, figuring it would at least make up for past misdeeds and get her a better shot at the Pearly Gates.
Writing has always been her first love. And she became good enough at it to earn many dozens of awards, including three Best of Gannetts for her feature stories and columns. Along with a bunch of other junk that really doesn’t matter in the end.
What matters to Reinhardt is making people laugh. And think. And love others.
She is married to her second and final husband, country and genius lawyer Donny Laws who is bald but has a ponytail and loves to ride a bike. She has two adult kids, three steps, and a granddaughter.
She’s been on national TV, has modeled for one glossy magazine, and was the subject of a British documentary on aging and body image. She hopes that the documentary is lost and never resurfaces.
THE BEAUTIFUL MISFITS is book club, women’s fiction and is an emotional yet uplifting ride through a world of fierce love, store-bought beauty, and wonder.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I began writing at age 13 as a scrawny, book-toothed misfit filled with angst over the crushes who didn’t return my interest. In first grade, I won a Most-Books-Read contest and was the proud recipient of a Viewfinder, now a vintage toy.
I fell in love with books then, and that obsession with reading has clung to me since. I’d rather read a book than watch a movie.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite genres are women’s fiction, book club fiction, and romantic comedies. I’ll read a thriller now and then or a mystery. I do like the occasional sci-fi novel.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Eighty-four seconds can change your life.
Or destroy it.
Josie Nickels is an Emmy-winning news anchor, poised to rise through the ranks of television journalism. But on a bitter March evening on live TV, the pressures and secrets burbling behind closed doors of her ridiculous Victorian mansion explode. And the overwhelmed journalist spills family secrets like a Baptist at altar call.
The aftermath costs her much more than a career. It robs her of a beloved son—a preppy, educated millennial trapped in the deadly world of addiction.
Desperate for a new start and a way to save her son, Josie packs up her pride, her young daughter, and accepts a new job slinging cosmetics at a department store make-up counter with other disgraced celebs.
In the gorgeous mountains of Asheville N.C., known for hippies, healings, and Subarus, Josie is faced with a choice:
Take a chance on a bold, out-of-the-ordinary treatment plan for her son. Or lose him forever.
This heart-wrenching and, at times, hilarious novel, will delight fans of book-club women’s fiction. And inspire and give hope to those with addicted sons and daughters.
The novel took me about five years to write. I visited rehab centers and interviewed those struggling with addiction, including my adult son who’s now clean.
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