Fun Five: Author Janet Fox

1. Who is your favorite super hero?
I would have to say my favorite is Superman. He has such a tragic backstory – his entire planet destroyed, his parents dead. He’s adopted by loving earth parents who raise him as a virtuous young man. He has a crippling weakness (kryptonite) that he can’t overcome. He lives in disguise (and don’t we all?) and he’s in love with a girl who, when he’s in disguise, doesn’t know he exists because he’s such a nerd. Plus, he can fly. I would love to be able to fly.
2. If you could meet any celebrity who would it be?
I’d love to meet Tom Hanks. He seems like the most genuine actor in the business – a really personable guy who is smart and funny and has a lovely wife and family. And he’s enormously talented. I bet he’d be a delightful guy to just hang out with.
3. What dish do you like to cook the most?
We eat a lot of pasta, so I’d have to say anything with pasta in it. But I also have a chocolate cake recipe that came from my mother and that’s to die for. Yum.
4. Do you have a nickname?
No! I’ve never had one! Want to run a nickname contest?
5. What was your favorite childhood toy?
I had a stuffed bear that was given to me when I was a baby. It’s handmade of dark brown terrycloth, and is really squishy and fat. I still have it.
More about Faithful:
In 1904 Margaret Bennet has it all – money, position, and an elegant family home in Newport, Rhode Island. But just as she is to enter society, her mother ruins everything, first with public displays, and then by disappearing. Maggie’s confusion and loss are compounded when her father drags her to Yellowstone National Park, where he informs her that they will remain. At first Maggie’s only desire is to return to Newport. But the mystical beauty of the Yellowstone landscape, and the presence of young Tom Rowland, a boy unlike the others she has known, conspire to change Maggie from a spoiled girl willing to be constrained by society to a free-thinking and brave young woman living in a romantic landscape at the threshold of a new century.











