Interview With Author Kelly Winsa
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I started writing films and then books when I had kids. My first film, Hi Honey, won some awards. It’s a comedy about a woman who can’t get what she wants until she figures out that she is waiting for somebody else to tell her it’s ok. As soon as she figures this out, bingo, she gets a dog, her passion. This taught me that I should keep going, tell my kids to keep going, and not be afraid. Sometimes life throws some real merde at you and you have to keep telling yourself, keep it up!
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called The Particle and it was inspired by my travels to France, to Provence. There was a couple who owned a vineyard and I stayed with them. Leo knew a lot about black madonnas and I was traveling to see on in the Camargue. Soon it became apparent that there were messages coming from the symbolism, the history, the figures that I could hear in my subconscious. This was exciting and new. Living in Hawaii where the veil is thin, I already had an adventure where I found someone just using my own instinct. I was going to see a Kapuna, a famous healer known around the world but no one would tell me where she lived. But I found her….she lived right beside the ocean, and I was not disappointed. She said nothing to me and yet I learned so much. So the mystery of life continues…
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Early in the morning I always wake with something to write. It is in my dream of early thoughts of the morning. I take this to mean that when we are allowing it to come, it does. Nearly every day there is something unusual, often something I would not have even imagined the day before. I study at continuing education and this also brings a lot of courage and backbone to my writing that otherwise would be lost.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
In my early adulthood I read all of Hemingway. Now I like women writers mostly, and British writers who are funny. Like most people, or people who write anyway, I can be critical of other people’s work and that is often because I need to be writing myself!
What are you working on now?
Right now the spine of my third novel, The Great is created. For this I will travel to Ireland and see the burial mound that is like a womb in the south. When I have an idea like this I must follow it.
The Great is the third novel in The Robi’s Flying Saucer Series.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I like to talk to people directly, and to kids. I do this in social settings, at camps, and at schools.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Not really. An author is always a new author, every morning when you pick up the pen or open your computer.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t stop.
What are you reading now?
I am waiting for delivery of Diary of a Young Naturalist.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Will continue to write The Great in between cooking and walking and cycling.
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?
drawing books, some good illustration pens, and Forever Amber.
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