HISTORICAL FICTION AUTHOR, FORMER ACTRESS AND TV SHOW HOST [DEBRA BORCHERT] - Wordsleuth's 31st Pass-the-Baton Instagram Live Interview (Word Improv Community) (October 19, 2023)

Debra Borchert has had many careers. She debuted, at the age of five, as a model at a local

country club where her crinoline petticoat dropped to her ankles in the middle of the runway.

Since then, she’s been a clothing designer, actress (starring in her first television commercial

with Jeff Daniels for S.O.S. Soap Pads), TV show host, spokesperson for high-tech companies,

marketing and public relations professional, technical writer for Fortune 100 companies, and

author.

She is the author of the Château de Verzat series—following headstrong and independent women

and the four-hundred loyal families who protect a Loire Valley château and vineyard during the

French Revolution—Her Own Legacy 2022, Her Own Revolution 2023, Her Own War 2024, and

a companion cookbook to the series, Soups of Château de Verzat, 2023.

A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, she weaves her knowledge of textiles and

clothing design throughout her French historical fiction. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with

her family and standard poodle, named after a fine French Champagne.

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Pass-the-Baton Interview # 31 is part of a series of Instagram Live interviews where contributors to Word Improv challenges (by @wordsleuth) interview one another so that the Word Improv community and our audience learn about Word Improv writers and their work.  The interviewee for one interview becomes the interviewer for the next! (hence, “Pass-the-Baton”). 

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For Pass-the-Baton Interview # 31 (via Instagram):

@authorcrrice interviewed @debraborchertauthor

@lj_sommers was Alternate

by @wordsleuth 

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