Any more reviews lately? Except for a couple of mentions on online boxing sites, there haven't been any reviews that I'm aware of for The Greatest Champion That Never Was. We'd all hoped the book would generate more interest, but to date it hasn't. Someone explained to me that boxing is a sport that's fallen out of favor with much of the public. It's a shame because I think Stribling's story would be of interest to a lot of people. After all, he rubbed shoulders with royalty, appeared in vaudeville before he was 5 years old, was best friends with Jack Dempsey and still managed to live a happy family life in small-town Georgia.
I must agree. I have not read your novel, Mockingbird in the Moonlight. What’s it about? It's a murder mystery. The main character is a former police officer named Dixie McClatchey who now owns a bookstore on Cherry Street in downtown Macon. She's active in the Friends of the Library and becomes involved in a murder investigation when one of the Friends is killed in the alley behind her store. It's a light read, I think, with some humor, a little romance and a mystery to solve.
I did read Whisper to the Black Can- dle. Loved it. But then again, true crime and black magic, how can you go wrong. (I am, after all, a Stephen King fan). What initially compelled you to delve into this 40 year old crime? And tell our readers just a bit about the premise of the book. Whisper is the story of Anjette Lyles who ran a restaurant on Mulberry Street in Macon in the 1950s. She was extremely popular, just about everybody in town ate at her restau- rant. The city was shocked when, in 1957, she was arrested for murdering two husbands, her mother-in-law and her nine-year-old daughter over a 6 year period. The title refers to her practice of burning different colored
candles and trying to cast magical spells by talking to them. She was heavily involved with fortune tellers, root doctors, etc. I got in- terested in the case when a friend brought it up at lunch one day and I started researching it soon afterwards.
If variety truly is the spice of life, you are doing very well. What compelled you to do a book on herbs? (A SOUTH- ERN WOMAN'S GUIDE TO HERBS, Mercer University Press, 2013) I've been an herb grower for over 20 years and love not only cooking with herbs, but using them in other ways including crafts, bath and beauty products, aromatherapy, and even healing - on a very small scale.
What are you working on next? I have another true crime in the works and I'm considering writing a book about my life with dogs and cats. Oh, and I design and make jewelry, too. •
(Introduction to this interview taken from Mrs. White’s web biography)
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