Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
This is my first book, although I did have a short story published in Best Women Travel Writers in 2007! I have been a successful solopreneur since 2009, when I launched K Gregg Consulting (www.kgreggconsulting.com). Going independent has given me so much flexibility to organize my day, such great joy in my work, and so many opportunities to collaborate with great people and organizations that I thought if there’s a chance others could benefit from my experience, I need to share it. This book is not to promote my business but to help others who are where I was 10 years ago! When I’m not working, I’m hiking with the dog, traveling with my daughter, or dancing!
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What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Career Reinvented: How to Build an Independent Life by Starting Your Own Business. I used to joke that I should write a book because I never really had any ambitions to run my own business, but have been doing so successfully for almost 10 years! This year I had some extra time, so I said it’s now or never!
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really. I like the fireplace in winter and sitting outside on my patio swing in summer.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
That is really an unfair question! There are so many!! For nonfiction, I’m inspired by journalists who start writing books, such as David Grann who wrote “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Elizabeth Kolbert who wrote “The Sixth Extinction.”
What are you working on now?
I still run my business day to day, working on communications projects related to grasslands and wetland conservation in the Southeast, as well as rare and declining species in Tennessee.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am too new at this to answer that accurately!
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do NOT under any circumstances give up on yourself! Just expect the negative inner voice to do its thing, then ignore it and keep going! You can do it. I think everyone with the desire should write a book.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Live in the moment.
What are you reading now?
Going to begin “Educated” by Tara Westover and just began “Into the Water” by Paula Hawkins.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I am thinking of doing a version of my Career Reinvented book for young people (just starting out) and/or for parents (my daughter is 17). Beyond that I have a great idea for a novel, if I can pull it off, but it’s a top secret topic!
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?
A book of Mary Oliver’s poetry, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, and Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (have not read it yet, and it’s long!)
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