Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Donna Mae Smith, born Donna Mae Grigelis. As I write, I look over the lovely Southwestern Branch of the Severn River and realize I was lucky growing up a waterman’s daughter here on Virginia’s Mobjack Bay. I enjoyed a barefoot and bamboo fishing pole carrying youth.
After years of living away, I returned home. Here I have been happy with a career selling real estate while continuing to travel and enjoy family, gardening, wildlife, and writing.
Please watch for my new adventures to read and share. I have much to share with you.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Kitty Born at Sea: A Kitty Adventure is my first book published. It was inspired by two of my favorite things, the water and my cats, Maxine and Riley.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Well, as a child, I suppose the books Heidi and My Father’s Dragon influenced me the most. As an adult, I like the fictional adventures of Clive Cussler.
What are you working on now?
I am currently working on a second Kitty Adventure. Of course, I am constantly opening files and adding notes to other works that wait in line to be finished.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Being so new, I have yet to establish an answer. That very question led me here.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t stop writing.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Experience everything twice. The first time might be deceiving.
What are you reading now?
Political opinions
What’s next for you as a writer?
My short term goal is to have three or four Kitty Adventures written in 2017.
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?
Plato: The Complete Works, The Complete Work of Shakespeare, the Bible
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