Paula Moore, author of Cricket in the Web: The 1949 Unsolved Murder That Unraveled New Mexico Politics (University of New Mexico Press, 2009) and Matinee and Evening: The Story of Actors Abby Lewis and John Seymour (Brighton Publishing, 2014), has given Kathleen M. Rodgers outstanding, personal endorsements for both of her novels:

Dear Kathleen,

Just a note to let you know I bought and read both your books.  Congratulations on the honors for The Final Salute.  I especially appreciated the imagination of the scene with Tuck at the pulpit with visions of his dead friends and conversations with them.  And Jeff Sweeney upside down on the cross! Vivid.

In Johnnie Come Lately Johnnie’s fears touched me as the reader.  Fear becomes an important character.  And you chose such creative physical actions to clarify a character, like on p. 103, “Belting her robe, she cinched herself up against whatever waited on the other side of the door.”

I especially liked this line too:  p.209 “a mental sidecar she couldn’t unhitch.”  And many more.

It is a comfort to think of another ENMU graduate at the keyboard, rewriting, sanding, shaping over and over.

Congratulations and best wishes.
Paula Moore

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www.kathleenmrodgers.com The Final Salute  and Johnnie Come Lately