Naleighna Kai’s Chocolate Chat featuring
Piper Huguley
hosted by Shannan
Harper
Cerece Rennie Murphy QUESTION: What
books inspired you as a child?
Piper G Huguley The historical stuff: Roll of
Thunder Hear My Cry, Virginia Hamilton and the
Little House on the Prairie series. I should have
known I was going to be a historical writer much
sooner than I did!
Christine Pauls: Did you always want to be a writer of
Historical fiction/romance?
Piper G Huguley: I always knew that I would be a writer of something. I started
to get back into it when my son started playing football and didn’t need me as
much. I tried my hand at romance because I assumed it would be easier to get
published (Ha!) I wrote a contemporary, which was not very successful. Then I
realized that there was a hole in the landscape of historical romance--of seeing
African American as long standing people of faith. So I started writing in that
direction.
My Migrations of the Heart series was supposed to center around a ll of the Bledsoe
sisters. There are 5 of them. However, 3 were published and my publisher closed.
So I went to Plan B, which was to take the love story of the baby sister and spin it
off based on the heroes. So I called the series “Born to Win Men” which centers
around historical sports romance. The series title is meant to cover the sports
fortunes of the Bates cousins, men who were named with “winning” names and
were encouraged to play sports from the beginning. So Champion Jack Bates is
the first hero out of the gate.
Shannan Harper: That answers my question as to why even though Delia was
one of the Bledsoe sisters, her story was part of a different series.