Interview With Author Jill Peters-Gee
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a retired Urologist. I started a support group for patients with interstitial cystitis and bladder pain syndrome after retirement. While putting together a resource list for the group, I discovered that there was a desperate need for an up-to-date book on IC, written by a doctor that treated IC. There was also a tremendous amount of new information that needed to be disseminated to both patients and the healthcare providers that care for them. That was the impetus to write “IC Journey to Wellness: Healing bladder pain syndrome and interstitial cystitis”. I have also just published a journal “IC Journey to Wellness: Journal”.
The journal is a workbook that helps to gather the clues needed, to solve the mystery of the symptoms of IC.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
IC Journey to Wellness, was published January 31st, 2024. It was written to bring patients and the healthcare providers that care for them up to date on what we know about interstitial cystitis and bladder pain syndrome. While there is no known cure for this frustrating condition, there is now hope.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I love to go to our cottage in Massachusetts, and get in the zone. The calm of the lake and the trees all ground me.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Robert Moldwin wrote the IC Survival Guide in 2000. I have used his book for patients for decades.
What are you working on now?
Next book is going to be a book that addresses how to handle medical conditions while walking a camino. I have walked the Camino de Santiago twice. The cover of my book, IC Journey to Wellness, is the Camino in Galicia Spain. Everyone should be able to experience the Camino, even when medical limitations are present.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Still learning how to market my book as a new author.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
A publishing service company is very helpful, especially for the first book. The education is so worth it!
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Try to develop a routine, and make sacred time to accomplish your goals.
What are you reading now?
The Big Free by Martha Boone, M.D. (She is a fellow retired Urologist, now author). Loved her first book Mother Charity.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I plan to continue to support those with interstitial cystitis and bladder pain syndrome. I am on the Medical Advisory Council for the ICA (Interstitial Cystitis Association). I want to record online webinars to help patients better understand their symptoms and make sense of therapies.
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?
I would bring a survival guide book ( I actually applied to be on Survivor for season 2!), and then some mindless romance novels, that allow me to put my brain somewhere else. Love James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Nicolas Sparks.
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