Favorite Move and Book with author Heather Weidner: Two Girls Fighting Over Shoes? and her book

Your Favorite Movie:

My favorite movie of all time is MGM’s The Wizard of Oz. I remember watching this on TV when it came on once a year. I bought the VHS tape and probably wore it out. I love everything about the movie and the books. The movie has such history (like one of the prop coats purchased for the movie actually belonged to L. Frank Baum). It has had such an impact on pop culture, and allusions to it can be found in books, movies, and music across generations. It’s a timeless classic.

The witch and the flying monkeys scared me to death as a kid, and I had the hardest time understanding that the woman in the Maxwell House coffee commercials in the 1970s was the witch.

I loved studying the film for bloopers and reading about how they created the special effects with 1930s technology. It was cutting edge with its use of color. Fun facts were that they used colored gelatin to “dye” the Oz horse of many colors (and the horses licked a lot of the coloring off). They also wrote “Surrender Dorothy” backwards in the bottom of an aquarium and filmed it for the witch’s sky-writing scene.

My college offered mini-terms between semesters (January or J-terms), and the best course ever was the History of The Wizard of Oz. I got to hang out with an entire class of Oz lovers and watch every version of the movie we could find.

I even slipped an homage to my favorite movie in the second Jules Keene Glamping mystery, Film Crews and Rendezvous (October 2022).

About the Book:

There is nothing like finding a dead body, clad only in a red satin thong, on your property to jolt you from a quiet routine. Jules Keene, owner of the posh Fern Valley Camping Resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is thrust into the world of the Dark Web when one of her guests, Ira Perkins, is found murdered in the woods near her vintage trailers. Jules quickly discovers that the man who claimed to be on a writing retreat was not what he seemed, and someone will go to any length to find what he left at her resort. Jules, along with her Jack Russell Terrier sidekick Bijou, has to put the rest of the missing pieces of a blackmailing scheme together before her glamping business is ruined.

 

About the Author:

Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college

professor, software tester, and IT manager. Vintage Trailers and Blackmailers is the first in her cozy mystery series, the Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries. She also writes the Delanie Fitzgerald mystery series set in Virginia. Her Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries debut in 2023. Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers.

 

Answer these questions:

Red, White or Blue? Red (I am a red-head with blue eyes.)

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter? Summer – I’m a beach girl.

Cake or Pie? Pie

Coffee, Tea, or Champagne? Ice Coffee or Iced Tea

Country music or Michael Buble? They’re both okay. I’m an 80s Girls. I love a variety of music.

Pencil or Pen? Pens. I love collecting cool pens and journals. I always sign books in pink, purple, or red.

 

Find the Book at:

Book title at:Amazon

Heather Weidner at:Website