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Q&A with Jane Howard, author of “Hey Nature Lady: Vignettes on Living a Creative Life”
Q&A with Jane Howard, author of “Hey Nature Lady: Vignettes on Living a Creative Life”

Who was your intended audience for this book when you first conceived of it, and who do you think it is now? Did your intended audience change at all over time?

At first, I was just doing it for family members, just tracking my own history of out-of-the-box lifestyles, and writing down adventures that I didn’t want to forget. . . . Now, though, I see my audience as broader than that—any age, really. The intention of the writing is to inspire others to take risks, to be curious about life, to reconnect with a sense of innocence, and curiosity about the world and nature..

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Author & Publishing Tips, Author Interview, Self-PublishingSara Roahenauthor interview, nature essays, creative living, watercolor painting, connect with nature, inner peace, nature adventures, adventure writingComment
Q&A with Patsy Truxaw, author of “Gathering: Family, Grief, Resilience”
Q&A with Patsy Truxaw, author of “Gathering: Family, Grief, Resilience”

What were the benefits of workshopping Gathering with a group?

I was inspired by people's writing and by people's directness, and I felt like eventually it was a class where I could take a chance and be myself and read what I wrote. I got good feedback, and the best thing is having a group of people who are just so supportive. I like having an audience, as it turns out.

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Author Interview, Self-Publishing, Author & Publishing TipsSara Roahenauthor interview, family memoir, sibling death, mental illness, addiction, recovery, redemption, family relationships, internal growth, siblling supportComment
Q&A with Katya Cengal, author of "Straightjackets and Lunch Money"
Q&A with Katya Cengal, author of "Straightjackets and Lunch Money"

Straitjackets and Lunch Money by Katya Cengal is a memoir written in two voices: the voice of Katya as a ten-year-old girl hospitalized at the Roth Psychosomatic Unit at Children’s Hospital at Stanford as treatment for self-starvation; and the voice of Katya thirty years later, as a journalist researching her own story from that time to better understand what she went through, and to bring the reader’s attention to other children at risk of going unseen and unheard.

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Author InterviewSara Roahenauthor interview, memoir interview, memoir, eating disorder, psychosomatic illness, psychiatric hospitalization, at risk youth, childhood trauma, mental illness, depression, journalism, survivor story, writing craftComment
Q&A with Carole Wagener, Author of "The Hardest Year: A Love Story in Letters During the Vietnam War"
Q&A with Carole Wagener, Author of "The Hardest Year: A Love Story in Letters During the Vietnam War"

Carole Wagener recently self-published her first book, The Hardest Year: A Love Story in Letters During the Vietnam War. Her husband, William, who wrote roughly half of the letters in the book, shares author credit.  

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Author InterviewSara Roahenmemoir, author interview, veterans memoir, war memoir, war stories, war letters, love story, military love story, The Hardest Year, Carole Wagener, developmental editing, copyediting, self-publishing, writing process Comment