Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a published non-fiction writer whose articles have appears in various newspapers, magazines, and online. I am a new author of my first book.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My book is titled Evolving: My Lessons of Self-Discovery. My book is about my spiritual journey of self-discovery and all the lessons learned along my path. I certainly am a work in progress and haven’t yet become my best self, but I work everyday at evolving and becoming my better self. I believe life lessons reveal themselves to us everyday and I hope to learn something new everyday and continue to evolve.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have an idea folder where I keep all my thoughts and those aha moments when something clever comes to me and I regularly review that file when writing.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I predominantly read and write non-fiction and love really well written memoirs. Some of my favorite authors are Dani Shapiro, Glennon Doyle, Elizabeth Gilbert, Joyce Maynard, Anne Lamott to name a few. I thought Michelle Obama’s memoir was brilliantly written.
What are you working on now?
I am deep in the process of marketing and promoting my book, Evolving, and have completed the outline for my second book that I can’t wait to start writing.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I love to participate in podcasts/interviews to share my stories and experiences with readers.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
There are really three parts to being an author. The first is writing the book which is creative part and requires deep soul searching. The second is publishing your book and all the business associated with that end of it. The third is promoting and marketing your book, which takes time and patience. To be successful, you have to work long and hard at all three.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
My authors I have talked to have told me it takes a really long time to build your platform to sell your book.
What are you reading now?
I always have two or three books I read at the same time and I am reading Adventures in Opting Out, Sensitive is the New Strong, and Claire Tomalin: A Life of my Own.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I will spend the next few months promoting and marketing Evolving and then will start writing my second book hopefully in the Fall.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Untamed
Becoming
Help, Thanks, Wow
Eat, Pray, Love
Author Websites and Profiles
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Thank you for sharing your writing life with us. I appreciate what you are working on and find myself more and more drawn to writing about my own healing process, my evolving. You have shown that it’s for oneself to write about it and hopefully others will find inspiration in that. Thank you, Corrine Ardoin