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Looking out the Window: Anita Klumpers Talks about Buttonholed, Her Latest Book. Shares a Yummy Apple Cake Recipe

A Warm Welcome to Anita Klumpers Anita shares a favorite Bible verse and a yummy recipe handed down from her mother. See below. Hi Anita, lots of writers loved to read as children. What about you? If so, what did you read? YES! I vividly remember reading Little House in the Big Woods in first grade. I moved up to the Bobbsey Twins, Happy Hollisters and Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew books by the truckload. And the biographies my dad made me read to balance out the mystery stories. What inspired you to write this particular book? My editor asked for a novella based on the virtue “Whatever is of good repute” from Philippians 4:8. While visiting Andrew Jackson’s home in Nashville, we watched a duel reenactment, and the idea was born! What do you love about this book? And what do you hope readers will tell others about it? It was fun weaving in the history of the duel and its ramifications to present day. Manderley is a well-meaning sweetheart. Her mother Tara is a dynamo an