Emilie Richards was interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay. BookCast is sponsored by Virginia Commerce Bank through the Fairfax Library Foundation.

• Emilie Richards lives in Arlington, VA and is the author of more than 50 books, most of them romance and family dramas. She also has a newer Ministry is Murder series with titles such as Let There Be Suspects (2006) and Blessed Is The Busybody (2005), based in part on her experience as the wife of a minister. Her most recent romance, Lover's Knot, was published in 2006.



• She began writing in 1983 after the birth of her fourth child and named her first book, Brendan's Song, after her son - often on her lap as she wrote.



• Richards has received a number of awards, including the RITA from the Romance Writers of America. She has appeared on "Leeza" and "Hard Copy." "Hard Copy" once devoted an entire segment to her and called her the next Danielle Steel.



• Besides Virginia, Richards and her family have lived in Florida, Louisiana, California, Arkansas, Ohio and Pennsylvania. A four-month family sabbatical in Australia turned into six books for the romance novel publisher, Silhouette, with Australian or New Zealand settings.