What is the name of your book and if you had to sum up a description in 40 words or less, what would you say? The
name of my book is The Saving of NATION. Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
married a mere 36 hours before committing joint suicide. This seems a
fruitless gesture unless you see how it would legitimize their child. A
child hidden and raised in Canada postwar. This is his story.
Where did you get your idea for your book? I got my
inspiration for this book from my father-in-law, now deceased, whom I
never met. One day he was a carefree young man, a carpenter’s apprentice
with a bright future and a girl he was drumming up the courage to
propose to, and the next day, he was a soldier in Hitler’s army. He left
his home a sweet young boy and returned a bitter man with only one eye
and more scars than the ones caused by shrapnel too deep to remove
safely. I married his son, who was visiting Canada one year…a decent ,
kind and loving man affected but not ruined by his father’s fate. After
wondering how my husband turned out to be so much the opposite of such a
damaged father, I began to wonder how a son of Hitler might have turned
out, especially after finding out his true identity upon becoming a man
on his 18th birthday. Could anything good come from such evil…or would
his blood be his poison?
When did you publish this book? I self-published this book April 2 2013 on Amazon KDP Select.
Is your book part of a series? No. Not yet anyway. Should it become a bestseller, I might write a sequel!
What is the most important thing about your book you would like to share with potential readers? The
Saving of NATION is not a story about war or Hitler as such, but a
message of how we all, despite our pasts or predestined fate, have the
choice to control our own destiny.
What was the hardest part of writing your book? The
hardest part of writing this book was balancing my life around the
actual writing of it; I have a husband, five children and a cat and when
I write, I disappear and they are not a part of my world anymore.
Slipping back into reality can be draining. Luckily, they were all very
supportive, due in no small part, to my threatening to use their names
as horrible characters in my book should they pester me and make me lose
my train of thought…
What is your next writing project? I am knee deep in
a novel about the tragically, and shamefully, forgotten segment of
Canadian history that saw tens of thousands of Ukrainian immigrants and
Landed Immigrants alike, imprisoned in concentration camps in Canada
during the First World War. Even librarians try to correct me and say
only the Japanese were interned in Canada during the Second World War
and I have to give them a history lesson. Shockingly and sadly enough,
my college Sociology professor didn’t know either, and that was my
inspiration to finally write this new book.
What formats are your book available in: The Saving of NATION is currently an ebook available on Amazon.
Where can readers find you?
Website
Blog: Parca’s Chosen
Amazon
Facebook
GoodReads
Twitter: @denisesf5
What is your name and where are you located? I am Denise Sevier-Fries and I live in Comox, BC.
Do you write under a pen name?No. I will take the full credit and lumps that come with people knowing your identity.
What books have influenced your writing? I love the
Jack Whyte historical fiction series The Dream of Eagles; Diana
Gabaldon’s Highlander series; Anita Diamant’s inspiring The Red Tent and
thousands of others! I also love the classics Pride and Prejudice, The
Grapes of Wrath and To Kill A Mockingbird.
What inspired you to first write? I am a storyteller
and love to engage people in my tales…so putting the words down on
paper was the natural evolution of that inherent trait, I suppose.
What have you learned the most about being a writer/author? I
have birthed 5 books and 5 children and it is hard to decide which was
the least painful. They have all caused me, at one time or another,
immeasurable joy, unholy suffering and fodder for my blogs and books. I
have also learned that my husband and my children may be my heart and
soul, but writing and photography are my air and water and I need them
all to survive. I have also learned that writing, even with all its
extreme ups and downs, is by far, MUCH easier than trying to get
published and having ones work actually read.
Do you see writing as a career? Indeed I do. When I
began this book (which was the first I’d ever written), it was in the
wee hours of the morning and I was so engaged in writing it, that when
my daughter returned to my desk to give me a second kiss goodbye before
hurrying off to school, I chastised her for dillydallying and told her
she was going to be late…but she looked at me with a puzzled look on her
face and said, “But mom…I just came back from school. That was a kiss
hello.” I was stunned. The whole day had passed and it had felt like a
minute. I had found my vocation; for better or worse, I was a writer.
So, yes, I need to believe that I can eventually feed myself from this
job that chose me so persuasively.
Is there an Author that you would really like to meet? Jack Whyte or JK Rowling would be a massive treat!
Do you have any advice for other writers? Compare yourself to everybody and nobody.
What is the one most important thing others should know about you? I am not Norman Mailer. (*yes…there is a story behind that)
