Interview Mona Sedrak Author of Six Months
Give a warm welcome to Mona Sedrak, author of Six Months, released today, October 29, 2018! Congratulations Mona!
Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cauldron. Take your choice of a bat wing Chocolate Chip or Pumpkin, or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Mona and her new release Six Months!
What inspired you to write?
I have been an avid reader since I was a child. Reading, in many ways, saved my life and sanity. I could escape my world and enter another and forget all my troubles. Soon I learned that I could do the same thing through writing and this time, I could create any world I wanted to. I loved expressing myself through the written word from a young age and still do. I find beauty in words and their various combinations. I find understanding of events and emotions through writing. I write because I am most happy creating a story others can lose themselves in
Did you tell friends and family that you were writing a book? Or did it take a while to come out and tell friends and family you were a writer?
Before I wrote fiction, I wrote academic texts. Some of my family knows I write fiction, others do not. With this book, I am using my real name and so the world will know, and I am proud of it.
Do you see yourself in your characters?
In every story I write, I see a bit of myself in my characters and a bit of my life in my stories. I think often a writer’s life and all the people they know and the experiences they have influences their writing. For me, it happens naturally.
What do you want your readers to take away from your books?
I want readers to laugh and cry and think when they read my stories. I want them to understand the strength of forgiveness and love and the beauty and great blessing that comes with good friends and family. Hopefully, they will find a little bit of themselves in my story and even though they may cry with some of my emotional scences, at the end, they will smile and feel hopeful.
SPEED ROUND FOR A LITTLE ADDED FUN:
Speed Round (one word only answer): Yep, I know torture for a writer!<evil laugh>
Favorite movie: Gone With The Wind
Favorite book: Sense and Sensibility
Last book read: Kristen Ashley – The Time in Between
Favorite color: Grass Green
Stilettos or flipflops: flipflops
Coffee or tea: Coffee
Ebook or audiobook or paperback: audio
Pencil or pen: pen
Favorite song: You Raise Me Up
Streak or not: not
Favorite dessert: crème brulee
Favorite junk food: Cheetos
Favorite thing to do to relax: read
Champagne or gin: champagne
Paranormal or Historical: paranormal
Wonder Woman or Top Model: wonder woman
Favorite TV show: Downtown Abbey
Hot or cold: hot
POV: third person
I’d die if I don’t have: coffee
Review or Not: review
Tell us a little about Six Months.
For twenty years, Mikala Jacobson had it all: loyal friends, a precious little girl, and a man who adores her. Then double tragedy strikes and her perfect world shatters.
Good friends, Rena and Jake are instantly by her side, protecting her from her husband David’s sordid secret life and his final drunken confession.
With their help, Mikala finds strength to rebuild and redefine her life. As her spirit and heart heal, she not only finds closure, but the beauty of a new love built upon an old friendship.
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A sneak peek between the pages of Six Months.
Mikala raised her gaze to the heavens and raged. “Why? Why? Why?” With every word, she slammed her palms into the frozen earth. “Why did you have to steal my child? Why didn’t you just take me? Why did you give her to me only to reclaim her a few short years later? She was only a baby. She hadn’t lived a full life yet.” Sobbing, Mikala doubled over, her body wracked with pain. “Please, just take me to be with her. I can’t do this anymore on my own. I don’t want to. Please have mercy.”
She could beg all she wanted, but no one listened. Six months ago, her little butterfly flew to heaven. Never again would Mikala wake up to the melody of her sweet giggles or revel in the warmth of her tiny body as it settled against her own. Mikala couldn’t caress Molly’s pudgy cheeks, tickle behind her ears, or inhale her fresh little-girl scent after a bath. She couldn’t tangle her fingers through her wild mane of curls or get lost in those bottomless blue eyes that stopped most people in their tracks with their unusual color and their ability to see right through them.
Worst of all, Mikala didn’t know who she was. No longer was she a mother. She would never hear the word Mama coming from her daughter’s bow-shaped lips, giving meaning and worth to her life. Without her child, and without that title, Mikala was no one––no one special.
Mikala had lied to Molly. She didn’t catch her, hold her, or protect her like she’d promised on the day she was born. She could have and should have. But Mikala hadn’t listened to her internal alarm bell—the one that came as an added bonus the day she learned she was pregnant with Molly, and the one that warned when her precious girl was in trouble. Instead, she’d listened to all the people around her who loved her and Molly, but they had no clue what being a mother was.
“Wake up, wake up, wake up,” Molly had chanted as she bounced up and down on Mikala’s bed early one Saturday morning in mid-August. “It’s here. It’s today. Daddy says to get you up and get me dressed.” She dropped to her knees and crawled over Mikala, positioning her small body on top of her mother. Molly placed her head on Mikala’s breast as her itsy-bitsy fingers tiptoed their way to Mikala’s armpits and dug in.
Mikala smiled and grabbed Molly’s hands in one of hers as her other arm banded around the giggling girl and pulled her even closer. She breathed in Molly.
About the Author
Mona Sedrak lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and works as a university administrator and professor. Although she has co-published two academic books, she is now writing mainstream fiction and women’s fiction. She is an avid reader and is probably Audible’s best customer.
Writing and reading fiction is her escape from reality.
Mona lives with her husband of 31 years, a geriatric maltipoo, and an Amazon Parrot named Pretzel. She binge watches too many shows to count and she loves fine brandy.
You can find Mona on social media sites below:
Website: https://www.monasedrak.com/
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Mona-Sedrak/e/B003VGUOZQ
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuthorMSedrak
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MonaSedrakAuthor/
Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4563964.Mona_Sedrak
Email: AuthorMonaSedrak@gmail.com
Newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/h1a1s0
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authormonasedrak/
Facebook Readers Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MonasReaderGroup/
It was wonderful having you with us today. Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with Six Months!
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Posted in Authors' Secrets Blog and tagged Contemporary Romance, Mona Sedrak, Six Months by Tena Stetler with 7 comments.
Loved the sneak peek! Good luck with the book.
Thanks for stopping by Jennifer! Have a great week.
Thanks for the insight into your life as a writer. Your book is phenomenal!
Thanks for the insight into your life as a writer. Your book is phenomenal!
Thanks for popping by Colleen! Have a great week. Happy Halloween!
What an adorable cover–and I really enjoyed the excerpt. Best of luck with the release, Mona.
Loved the excerpt, Mona! Best on the book!