In Your Next Beach Read, we want to introduce you to a new author every day in June in the hopes that you’ll find the next book you want to take with you to the beach, the pool, or the comforts of air conditioning.

Today’s author is A.M. Bochnak, author of Fortitude Rising.

What’s your name and where are you from?

My name is Angelique, but I publish fiction under the name A.M. Bochnak. I was born and raised in southern Ohio and now live in Gainesville, Florida.

How long have you been writing? How did you start?

After two years of reading every craft development book I could get my hands on, I finally decided I was ready to write my first novel in 2015. I learned more from writing that first novel than I did from any of those craft books. Sometimes you have to take that…