5 Easy Questions

Pat Henshaw author of Redesigning Max answers five easy questions
to help readers get to know her better.

Author Bio

Pat Henshaw, author of the Foothills Pride Stories, was born
and raised in Nebraska and has lived at various times in Texas, Colorado, Northern Virginia, and
Northern California. Pat has visited
Mexico, Canada, Europe, Nicaragua, Thailand, and Egypt, and now enjoys trips to
Vermont, Oregon, and Arizona to see family. Pat spent her life surrounded by
words—teaching English composition at
the junior college level; writing book reviews for newspapers, magazines, and
websites; helping students find information as a librarian; and promoting PBS
television programs.

What’s your favorite down-home
family style meal?

Since I’m from Nebraska, I’ll have to go with the staple at
our house: grilled steak, homemade potato salad, fruit salad, and ice cream for
dessert.

Describe the perfect vacation.

I love the coast around Pacific Grove, California, so my
perfect vacation is one we take a couple times a year. We drive to Pacific
Grove, check into a small cabin there, walk down to the shore, dawdle for a few
hours, then go to dinner. The next day, my husband drops me off at the coffee
shop downtown, where I get a glass of iced tea and whatever homemade bread they
have on hand, and then I write until lunch. In the afternoon, I write more,
take a nap, and generally enjoy the sea breezes and soft sounds of the coast.
Sometimes we drive down Big Sur and stop at Nepenthe for leisurely lunch. We’ve
traveled almost all over the world, but Pacific Grove is my destination of
choice.

What are your hobbies?

I love making dollhouse miniatures in quarter inch scale.
Quarter inch = one foot in real life. Lately, I’ve been making quarter inch ice
cream cones. They’re really teeny, just like all quarter inch objects are.

When you read for pleasure,
what kind of books do you choose?

I used to read mysteries, but these days, it’s romance,
particularly gay romance, that hits my charts.

If the hero of your latest
book called you on the phone, what would be a perfect ringtone for him?

Bears by Tom Goss. (And
the YouTube video is great!)

About the Book

Title Redesigning Max

Genre Contemporary Gay Romance

Author Pat Henshaw

Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG

Renowned interior designer Fredi
Zimmer is surprised when outdoorsman Max Greene, owner of Greene’s Hunting and
Fishing, hires him to remodel his rustic cabin in the Sierra Nevada
foothills. Fredi is an out and proud
Metro male whose contact with the outdoors is from his car to the doorway of
the million-dollar homes’ he remodels, and Max is just too hunky gorgeous for
words.

When Max starts coming on to Fredi,
the designer can’t imagine why. But he’s
game to put a little spice into Max’s life, even if it’s just in the colors and
fixtures he’ll use to turn Max’s dilapidated rustic cabin into a
showplace. Who can blame a guy for
adding a little sensual pleasure as he retools Max’s life visually?

Max, for his part, is grateful when
Fredi takes him in hand, both metaphorically and literally. Coming out, he finds is the most exciting and
wonderful time of his life, despite the conservative former friends who want to
stop his slide into hell.