I’ll admit, I would have like to have been tagged, but since two authors whose blogs I frequent Robin Lee Hatcher and Angela Hunt tagged whoever was reading their blog, I’ll count myself in…

Author B.J. Hoff has come up with a new meme with the following questions. Here are my answers, for anyone who cares to know.

1. What’s the one book or writing project you haven’t yet written but still hope to: I’ve written two books in my Biblical series on King David’s wives. If the series ever sells, or even if it doesn’t, someday I’d like to write the other two.

2. If you had one entire day in which to do nothing but read, what book would you start with? The Bible — probably read through the book of Ephesians where I’m at right now. Then I’d choose my next novel, as I just finished a wonderful story by Debra White Smith called Central Park, a take off on Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. I need to pick up the other two books in her Austen series.

My next novel of choice is a toss up between a Clive Cussler novel my chiropractor handed me and said I must read and my overflowing TBR pile.
Tamera Alexander’s Remembered, Jane Orcutt’s All the Tea in China, Jenny B. Jones’s In Between,
Nancy Moser’s Mozart’s Sister, or Ginger Garrett’s Dark Hour.

Anyone have a suggestion?

3. What was your first writing “instrument” (besides pen and paper)? An old Underwood typewriter. (I think that was the name.) I typed my first poetry on it.

4. What’s your best guess as to how many books you read in a month? If I’m really absorbed in the story, maybe two novels a month. Non-fiction – do websites count? I read a lot of sites during my research, but my non-fiction reading is slower than fiction (other than the Bible). A couple of books a year, usually books on Bible topics, not counting resource books that I don’t read all the way through.

5. What’s your favorite writing “machine” you’ve ever owned? My Dell laptop.

6. Think historical fiction: what’s your favorite time period in which to read? (And if you don’t read historical fiction–shame on you.) Biblical fiction, especially those set in the Old Testament though I like New Testament stories as well, and other ancient history.

7. What’s the one book you remember most clearly from your youth (childhood or teens)? Marjorie Holmes Two From Galilee. That book profoundly impacted my view of the Bible, bringing the pages of Scripture to life for me. Those people suddenly leaped off the pages at me, real in every aspect. I’ve loved Biblical fiction ever since.

People who were tagged are supposed to tag others, but since I wasn’t officially tagged, I’m doing as Angie and Robin did. So if you have a blog and love to read or write, consider yourself tagged. How would you answer these questions?

And feel free to post a link to this site if you respond.