1–What is the title of your latest release?  ‘TIL ALL THESE THINGS BE DONE.  I got the idea from a haunting Irish ballad, The Turtle Dove, filled with longing for lost love and promises to return. It’s a song my protagonist’s missing father sang to her as a child. 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? When her beloved father vanishes, sixteen-year-old Leola Rideout has little time to question why. With the “great influenza” epidemic in its second year and social turmoil raging across Texas, it’s all she can do to keep her young sisters–and dreams–alive. Only when Papa returns in haunting visions, decades later does Leola finally confront this loss, leading to a remarkable family discovery that might contain the seeds of forgiveness. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The book is loosely based on a family mystery that began in rural Texas a century ago.  North and east Texas was then known as “the Blacklands” because the dark, fertile soil made it ideal for growing crops like cotton. The late 1910s and early ‘20s were a pivotal moment for that region (as for the world) and, in doing my research, I…