Interview
with
Uvi
Poznansky
Author of
Dancing with Air
(New
Release)
Book Blurb for Dancing with Air:
Serving on the European front, Lenny longs for
Natasha, the girl who captured his heart back home. At first, he enjoys
fulfilling his military task, which is to write bogus reports, designed to fall
into the hands of Nazi Intelligence and divert their attention from the
upcoming invasion of Normandy. To fool the enemy, these reports are disguised
as love letters to another woman. His task must remain confidential, even at
the risk of Natasha becoming suspicious of him.
Once she arrives in London, Lenny takes her for a ride on
his Harley throughout England, from the White Cliffs of Dover to a village near
an underground ammunition depot in Staffordshire.
When he is wounded in a horrific explosion,
Natasha brings him back to safety, only to discover the other woman’s letter to
him. He wonders, will she trust him again, even though as a soldier, he must
keep his mission a secret? Will their love survive the test of war?
In the past Natasha wrote, with girlish infatuation, “He will be running his fingers down, all the way
down to the small of my back, touching his lips to my ear, breathing his name,
breathing mine. Here I am, dancing with air.” In years to come, she
will begin to lose her memory, which will make Lenny see her as delicate. “I gather her gently into my arms, holding her
like a breath.” But right now, during the months leading up to D-Day,
she is at her peak. With solid resolve, she is ready to take charge of the
course of their story.
Dancing
with Air is a standalone WWII historical fiction novel, as well as the
fourth volume of a family saga series titled Still
Life with Memories, one of family sagas best sellers of all time. If you
like family saga romance, wounded warrior romance books, romantic suspense
novels, military romantic suspense, or strong female lead romance, you will
find that this love story is a unique melding of them all.
Excerpt:
He will be running his fingers down, all the way down to the
small of my back, touching his lips to my ear, breathing his name, breathing
mine.
Here I am, dancing with air.
Around and around we go.
With these words Natasha stepped into my mind, lighting up
the gloom. I pictured her dancing with her back to me as if, between the two of
us, I was the one who was not even there.
The ripples of her hair spread open, glinting in all shades
of red. Wave by wave they cascaded down, first between her shoulder blades,
then over them. Fingers stretched out, just like a ballerina, she raised her
arm up high, swirling, twirling air, turning it into glow. The translucent
fabric fastened around her waist flapped over her legs, folds radiating,
fluttering, flaring with every sinuous movement, as she formed loops, slow,
continuous infinity loops with her hips.
Author Bio:
Uvi Poznansky is a bestselling, award-winning author,
poet and artist. Her romance boxed set, A Touch of
Passion, is the 2016 winner of The Romance Reviews Readers' Choice
Awards. Her writing and her art are tightly coupled. “I paint with my pen,” she
says, “and write with my paintbrush.”
Uvi earned her B. A.
in Architecture and Town Planning from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. During
her studies and in the years immediately following her graduation, she
practiced with an innovative Architectural firm, taking part in the design of a
large-scale project, Home for the
Soldier.
Having moved to Troy,
N.Y. with her husband and two children, Uvi received a Fellowship grant and a
Teaching Assistantship from the Architecture department at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. There, she guided teams in a variety of design projects
and earned her M.A. in Architecture. Then, taking a sharp turn in her
education, she earned her M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University
of Michigan.
During the years she
spent in advancing her career—first as an architect, and later as a software
engineer, software team leader, software manager and a software consultant
(with an emphasis on user interface for medical instruments devices)—she wrote
and painted constantly. In addition, she taught art appreciation classes.
Her versatile body of
work can be seen on her website,
which includes poems, short stories, bronze and ceramic sculptures, paper
engineering projects, oil and watercolor paintings, charcoal, pen and pencil drawings,
and mixed media.
In addition, she posts
her thoughts about the creative process on her blog
and engages readers and writers in conversation in her Goodreads group, The Creative Spark.
Uvi published a poetry
book in collaboration with her father, Zeev Kachel. Later she published two
children’s books, Jess and Wiggle and Now I Am Paper, which she illustrated, and for which she
created animations. You can find these animations on her Goodreads author page.
My Own Voice, The White Piano (woven together in Apart
from Love), The Music of Us,
and Dancing with Air
are volume I, II, III and IV of Still Life with
Memories, a family saga with
love stories that develop in the face of hardship and illness over two
generations, starting at the beginning of WWII with Lenny, a soldier, and
Natasha, a rising star.
Rise to Power,
A Peek at Bathsheba, and The Edge of
Revolt are volume I, II, and III of The
David Chronicles, telling the story of David as you have never heard
it before: from the king himself, telling the unofficial version, the one he
never allowed his court scribes to recount. In his mind, history is written to
praise the victorious—but at the last
stretch of his illustrious life, he feels an irresistible urge to tell the
truth.
A Favorite Son, her novella, is a new-age twist on an old
yarn. It is inspired by the biblical story of Jacob and his mother Rebecca,
plotting together against the elderly father Isaac, who is lying on his
deathbed. This is no old fairy tale. Its power is here and now, in each one of
us.
Twisted is a unique
collection of tales. In it, the author brings together diverse tales, laden
with shades of mystery. Here, you will come into a dark, strange world, a
hyper-reality where nearly everything is firmly rooted in the familiar—except
for some quirky detail that twists the yarn, and takes it for a spin in an
unexpected direction.
Home, her deeply moving poetry book in tribute of
her father, includes her poetry and prose, as well as translated poems from the
pen of her father, the poet and author Zeev Kachel.
Most
of these books are available in all three editions: ebook, audio, and print.
Find
her Books, ask to get them Autographed, and subscribe to her Newsletter.
What inspired you to write Dancing with Air?
For a long
time I had this idea of creating a series around the events in the life of a
unique family, over the course of several generations. In 1980 Natasha suffers
from early onset Alzheimer’s. Set the clock back ten years, and her husband,
Lenny, is only beginning to suspect that something is wrong. And when he
reflects on their early days, back in WWII, we find Natasha as a young woman at
her peak. She is beautiful, brilliant, and most of all ready to meet the
challenges that arise during the war years.
The characters
had to have not only a compelling voice, but they had to see things in an
entirely different light, which would create contrasts and conflicts, as each
one of them comes from a different background and has different passions,
needs, and aspirations. Dancing with Air is volume IV in this series, but
like the previous volumes, it is also a standalone novel, which you can read
independently of the others.
Author Links:
Still
Life with Memories:
The David Chronicles:
Thank you so much Martha, love your blog!
ReplyDeleteGreat blog about a great writing artist...
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ReplyDeleteOh thank you so much Skadi! Love your writing too :)
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