Gay Ann Kiser, Athor

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It's difficult for anyone, even if you're not a

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writer, to drudge up memories that are unpleasant and you

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don't ever want to throw somebody under the bus. But I

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just felt like when my kids were growing up,

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I didn't have very much to do with my

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mother. I didn't let them have very much to do with her

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for obvious reasons. And I felt like it was a way of

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really explaining to them why this is who I

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was. You'll know the child in me, and then

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you'll know how all of that affected all the

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decisions I made. Welcome friends, entrepreneurs and visionaries

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to Getting Neighborly Fairview, Texas very own Gateway to Opportunity.

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Dave Quinn, here to navigate the journey through the heart of our thriving

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a community success story. Howdy

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friends and welcome to another episode of Getting Neighborly. I'm your host, Super Dave

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Quinn. This is the show where we celebrate the people, places and purpose driven

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organizations that make Fairview feel like home. Today,

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we're stepping into a world of miniature donkeys, mysterious choir members,

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and second chances with someone whose pen turns real life

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into page turning fiction. Gay Ann Kaiser is a Furby

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resident, a retired teacher and author of more than a dozen books. Her

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heartfelt memoirs and sweet romances to her

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latest cozy mysteries, Killer in the Choir and Rhythm of

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Revenge. Her stories may be fiction, but

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the emotion is real. Drawn from a lifetime of experience, including

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growing up in the foster care system, she writes what she knows

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and what she knows is worth reading. Yay. Welcome to Getting

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Neighborly. Thank you for that great

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introduction, Dave. Well, I'm sorry I stumbled through it, but I tried my best.

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We are so glad to have you today. Listen, tell me a little bit about

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being a Writer. What age did that idea

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of becoming a writer sort of first show up in your life? Is that something

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you just always done, or is that recently or just in the last few

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years? I was not one of those

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kids who wrote journals and loved to write

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in school. But truly, I have to say,

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looking back now, in my adult years,

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when I was seven years old, I lived with my grandmother.

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And in that case, it was not a good experience. And I grew up in

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Minnesota, and I really struggled.

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My mother at the time was in a mental institution. She'd just gone there, and

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she stayed there for seven years. My father was what I guess you'd

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call a deadbeat dad. So the way I started writing

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was in my head. I was kind of a lonely kid,

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and I just started inventing characters in my head.

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I realized the power of creating

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a different kind of world, I guess, an imaginary world. And then the world

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I created. I had this, like, awesome mom who was

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always there for me and a great dad that was really

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involved with us, which just was not the case. My. But looking

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back, I see that that really was the beginning of a child

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figuring out a way in with the

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little control they had of empowering themselves in

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escaping from a situation. So I would say, honestly,

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at 7, I was a writer, but I didn't know I was. Oh, wow. So

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you really were writing in your head. You just weren't putting pen to paper yet.

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Perfect. Yes, exactly. And it looks like, from what I can tell,

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you're writing covers again. Everything from the cozy mystery

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to memoirs. What really connects all of those? What's the

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common thread in your writing?

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I think the common thread is authenticity.

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When I first started writing about 20 years ago, I

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submitted to publishers, and they kind of had this little packaged

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type of writing, and you couldn't bring certain things

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into it. Because I'm old, I guess I

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feel like authenticity is really all that matters when all is said

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and done. And so I write. I think the common

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denominator is I'm very honest. My characters

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are flawed. They have issues, and they need to get

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themselves straightened out. And sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.

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My memoir was totally from my heart. I never.

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I never thought I'd finish it. Not because it was long, but because

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it was difficult. And I published it In November of

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2020, at the peak of COVID I said, if I don't do this

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now, it will never happen. So I did it, and

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the feedback was astonishing. I was

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getting calls from other states and other countries

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where they knew me as a kid, and

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they didn't know I had grown up and everything was okay.

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So I'm. I'm so convinced that in your writing,

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authenticity is everything. Just. Just be real people, like

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real characters. I love that. I. I talk a lot about. In fact,

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my social media handle is Dave Quinn, 24 7.

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Because when we first started, you know, having those, people were trying to

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separate their online Persona from their

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real Persona. And I was like, you. You can't. It.

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You have to be who you are 24 7, or else it won't ring true.

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So let's talk a little bit about, you know, you say write what you know.

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So what part of you lives inside your characters? I mean, does each

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character sort of have a piece of you in

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those characters? Some of them

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do. There was a fictional book I wrote

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probably 12 years ago, and then I changed it. I

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wasn't satisfied, and I changed it all up and changed the title.

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And I'll just hold this up.

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It's probably backwards on the screen, but it's called Homeless for the

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Holidays in that book. I didn't realize till

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a decade later that the male

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hero in this book, Jonathan Carrington,

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is really me because he had a very contentious

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relationship with his mother. And. And it wasn't a

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happily ever after. It was kind of a happily for now when

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he was dealing with it. But I didn't realize, like, for 10

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years, gay. That's you. He's you in that book. But you didn't know it

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when you wrote it. So it does slip in. And of course, with the

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Cozy Mysteries, which are fun to write,

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it's all about singing in choirs, and I'm a

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lifelong choir person. Church choirs.

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I was in a nationally acclaimed

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Sweet Adelines group called the Rich Tones, and we competed

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internationally on stage, and singing was everything.

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And singing is the only thing. As a little girl

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growing up in Minnesota, it was truly the only

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thing I was good at, and I knew that. So that

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music just had. We talked about authenticity. Right?

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Music had to be in the book. So these are really fun. That is

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awesome. You mentioned your memoir, and really it's,

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you know, pretty personal, raw, real. What made you

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finally decide to kind of capture your story and

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I mean, and be. And give that to the world and

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say, well, for better or worse, here it is.

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for anyone, even if you're not a writer, to

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drudge up memories that are unpleasant. And you don't ever want to throw somebody

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under the bus. You know, you just. You're better than that. You don't want to

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do that. But I just felt

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like when my kids were growing up, they're

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now in their 40s, but when they were growing up, I

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didn't have very much to do with my

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mother. I didn't let them have very much to do with her,

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for obvious reasons. And I felt like it was a way of really

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explaining to them why this is. Why

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this is who I was. You'll know the child in

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me, and then you'll know how all of that

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affected all the decisions I made. And sometimes

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I know I said to at least one of my two

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kids when they didn't appreciate maybe the way

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I parented at a particular moment in time

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with what I've been given, I've done the best I could,

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and I just have. So I think it was, in a way

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to explain them and help me under. Help them

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understand me as a parent. That makes so much

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sense. You know, sometimes, even today, there's. There's decisions that you have

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to make as a parent, and. And you sort of. You want to protect

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your kids from why you're making that decision, but it doesn't make sense to

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them. So. I get that. Right. Let's talk a little

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bit about growing up in the foster care

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system. And I mean, I was

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unfortunate. You know, I grew up with two loving parents and sort

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of, I guess, air quotes, normal household.

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But how did that experience shape your

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characters? Is it a way for you to sort of,

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you know, maybe heal from or, you know, recognize

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what you went through and sort of how that.

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How, you know, how you matured through that system?

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Yeah, I do write a lot of what I went through,

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but I put it into the characters. There was

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one really. And I wrote about this in my memoir,

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of course. There was one really emotional moment for me as a

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child growing up with a family. That was a fourth one in four

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years. And I ended up staying there. But one

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Christmas, we were all asked to go in separate rooms. It

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was Christmas Eve, and we opened our presents

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then. But there was one. My foster mother handed us

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boxes, and I'm thinking, oh, gosh, I knew what a

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clothing box looked like when I was a kid. It's like, oh,

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it's going to be clothes. So we went in our separate

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rooms, and we all changed. And I thought that was the stupidest thing I ever

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heard of. And my foster mom, Elaine Roselyn, was insistent

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we came out of the room. We all

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had matching pajamas from Sears and Roebuck.

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That sounds so stupid. But

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I was about 11, and I just. I Looked at everybody in the

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family, and they all looked like me. And I just. It was the feeling

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that I really am part of this family. I'm just one

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of them. And so I. I even wrote that in one

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of books I wrote about the adopted two

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boys. And that happened because I had to write about that. It

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was such a unique. Oh, what a. What a fabulous moment.

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Finally, a sense of belonging and a place in the world that I can only

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imagine that. How powerful that must have been. Yeah.

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Yes. Do you find that, you know, through your writing, that it

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helped you heal through that? I mean, you must have,

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again, had a lot of challenges and things. Is. Is. Has that been a

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way for you to sort of reconcile all of those things and move

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past it? Yeah, and I don't know if you could say

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move past it, because I view people.

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I probably support more programs that

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help people because of where I was. So in that way, I

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don't get past it. But writing is so therapeutic.

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And I'll give you an example. And I hope this doesn't make you sad after.

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After I. But it might. After I signed for this

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last Sunday, not even a week ago. It's

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amazing. Our sweet little pet goat,

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Ginger, died. She was old. She was very old.

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She was almost 14. It was her time, and it

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was so devastating. And the first thing I did after

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I cried, of course, was I sat down

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and I outlined an entire children's book on.

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I've never written a children's book, but I wrote it. And

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it's. I'm. I kind of outlined it, and it's really

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about the lessons Ginger taught us. And I have

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specific things. How she interacted with the donkeys and what

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everybody learned from her and her from us. So

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writing, obviously, is very therapeutic for

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me. Well, so a couple things. It's incredibly sad. I'm so sorry.

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Thank you. But also the fact that, you know,

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we people, we have. We say this country lifestyle

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in Fairview, and so the fact that you have pet

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donkeys and goats are. It's sort of on brand and

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awesome for. For the town of Fairview. I

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know it's. I mean, it's sad. It's super sad. But that is. That's

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quintessential Fairview and what we're talking about. Right. And I love the fact that

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you outlined the children's book. It's a whole new genre for you.

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What an amazing opportunity. So. Well, let's talk a

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little about some of your other books. Let's talk about the cozy mystery series

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you've got Killer in the Choir and Rhythm of Revenge that

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are both out. And can I add one thing, that

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on September 1st, the third one in that series,

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Arson in the Alto section, will be available,

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and it's available now for pre order, but it will come out September

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1st. That's amazing. So what's the

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inspiration behind this sort of musical twist? I mean, maybe

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you've kind of already talked about your love for choir. Is that what's

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really the inspiration behind this mystery?

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my daughter's also a musician and a lovely singer, and over the

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years, from having so many choral directors

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and such, I've learned a lot about music.

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And so I can kind of do some inside

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jokes that if you're a musician,

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especially an age. Yes. An aging one

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with way too much vibrato, which is your voice

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quivering. So I kind of make fun of that, you know, in a

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fun way and not a cruel way. Yeah. Well,

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Hannah and Detective Kincaid, I believe. Right. Are the characters,

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and they're pretty. Yes. Liam Kincaid got a

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pair there. So how do those two characters evolve? And

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really, how much fun was it to write the tension that you

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add there? Like, it's got to be. I'm thinking it's got to be

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a lot of fun to do that.

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It is. You know, Liam is very intense.

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Hannah's pretty laid back, but real opinionated if you get

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her feathers in a ruffle there. So that is fun to

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write about. And she, in a nice way,

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puts him in his place. And I am,

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truth be told. Like, if you. If you're an alpha

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male, you. You probably want to find

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another author to read and not me. Because I.

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I just. I just think life is

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fun, and I like people that are

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make fun of themselves. You have to. Come on. You know,

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we all need to make fun of ourselves from time to time. So

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that's fun because Hannah does keep him grounded,

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although he doesn't always like it. So that's just fun. I didn't marry a guy

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like him, and I wouldn't. But it's fun to write about.

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If I had. Well, we. I just had this happen last night.

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It's so funny you mentioned laughing at yourself. I have a neighbor

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helping me trying to find the sprinkler head valve box.

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noticed that there was a sprinkler head broken. And so then

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I go over and I start to do the work on that sprinkler head, and

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he comes back and he's like, no, no, no, you're drifting from the goal

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stop. And, and you know, my wife is like, that

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didn't make you mad? I'm like, no, it's. It, it was, it's classic

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because I, I have adhd, so of course I'm gonna go fix what's right in

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front of me. There you go. And she was laughing. She's like, you know,

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that's it. That didn't bother you at all? And I was like, well, what should

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it have? I didn't realize, but at the time, I just died laughing. Maybe,

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maybe when she said it, it would have, but, you know, oh, it was so

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funny. I was like. It was like he was channeling you, Kimbra. Because the way

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he said it, he's like, no, no, no, you're drifting from the goal stop.

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So very nice way of saying. He was. He was trying to

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be friendly, but he was like, look, we've been out there for an hour in

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the heat trying to find it. So he was like, no, no, we gotta get

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this done anyway. Alright, so Fairview, you know,

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obviously you live here, and in your stories, it feels like it really

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could be the backdrop of your books. I mean, does, does the community

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inspire your settings or is it where you

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find some of the inspiration for your. For your books?

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Yeah, I am drawn to small towns, you know, and that's a

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popular genre, thankfully, in, in our society today.

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But I remember I have been in

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Texas since 1988. We moved in with that big JCPenney

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group from the East. So I, I. My husband was

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a career JCPenney guy. And so

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my first job, the first thing I did when we moved was I

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went to graduate school and got an advanced degree. And I got it in

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teaching because I wanted to teach. And the first job I ever

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got was at Lovejoy School. There was one school.

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That's all there was, was one school.

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And then I moved on because I wanted to do just language

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arts. I didn't want to do all the subjects, like in third grade,

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so I moved on to Plano because there were many more schools.

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But once the kids flew the coop and went to college,

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we wanted a country home. We wanted to be

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out. My husband loves yard work, so he wanted land.

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And we must have looked in like 30

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different areas. I could not stop

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coming back to Fairview. I could not stop.

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And so finally we said, why don't we limit it to Fairview

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and Lucas? And so that's how we got

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here. And I guess there's that nostalgia I

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felt I had had Students when I taught at Lovejoy

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who brought like a horse to school, one brought for show and tell.

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So I kind of got engrossed in that whole

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culture and that's how I got here. And I would say yes, that

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fictitious town I invented in Serenity Hills

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for the mystery series reminds me of Fairview in a whole

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lot of ways. And the people here, I love it. So let's

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talk a little bit about the, the Kaiser ranch you're writing where you

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write what? Describe that for folks. And you

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know, I'm picturing, you know, you got, you know, your donkeys and you know,

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murder plots for breakfast and what do you

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write on the porch? Where do you, what's your inspiration and where do you

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write from? I am really a

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plotter. I like to plot. I guess it's from my days of planning,

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curriculum and in school. So I will

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sit up when I'm coming up on a new book. I'll just take my

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legal pad and I'll sit out and watch. The view

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is beautiful that we have. It's magnificent. I'll sit out and

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look over the fence in the pasture at the donkeys roaming

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around and. And I can do that for weeks.

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I'll just jot down things and kind of get a sense of

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the setting. And then I get a big storyboard I have.

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It's huge. I don't think people even use storyboards anymore.

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And I plot all the chapters

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and I teach writing classes. So I'll teach students.

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You have to have a big turning advantage at the end of chapter three.

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Every scene needs to. And with something

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exciting like, oh my God, what's going to happen? I need to turn the page.

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And then chapters 5, 10 and 15 have turning points.

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So then I get very much formula minded, non

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add style. Right. No offense.

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My son has it. It's okay for me to make fun, so that's what I

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do. And once you know, I will tell you once

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I really figure out the message in where I

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want to go, truly, I can write like a

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250 page book in a month if I know that. Okay.

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Yeah. That doesn't mean I won't edit and change, but

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I have to know. I have to know where I'm going. All right. That makes

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a lot of sense. I attribute that, Yeah. I attribute that

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to a life in my early years that was out of

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control. I am now a control freak. And I'm happy to admit

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it, I am fine with it. Well, it's understandable, right, from, from your

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background and where you came from that, it's, you know, it makes sense. So

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I guess then that, you know, my next question was going to be, how do

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you know when the story's done? But you've really. You sort of.

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You with you plotting it out, you know, where the destination is. So then once

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you write, once you get there, you're there. Yes.

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Yeah. I will sometimes say that I can get

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halfway through and I'm not

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sure I want the killer in

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the mystery or the guilty person to be that

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one. And I sometimes change that up. Oh, let's

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make it this person. He said something worse. Let's make him the

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killer. So, yeah, only in the mysteries

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is that an issue. So let's talk a little bit about two

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things. One, the best part of. And then let's sort

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of converse that the hardest part of putting work

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out into the world. So so many times, you know,

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that's the hardest part. People can, you know, even if they get it down on

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paper, you know, hitting publish, that's a different

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level of things. So talk about those, the good and the bad of

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that, of hitting publish and putting your work into the world.

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The problem with hitting the publish button is, and this

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is probably true of most writers, I don't feel like I should

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ever be satisfied and ever think it couldn't be better. And so

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that makes it hard to push that button because I'll agonize over

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now, could I make it better by doing this? Should I have done this? So

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that's the problematic part for me and letting it

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go, like, I love these people. I don't want.

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I don't want to say goodbye. I wrote a little series. It's short.

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It's like two books based in Alaska. And I didn't want to

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stop, but they only have two daughters, so I'd written about each of them,

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so it was done. So that's the hard part. The

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good part is, you know, gosh, picking up

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your book. And this will probably come out backwards. This

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is the one I do about teaching memoir writing. There's activities in it

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for people to do, but that's. That's the hardest

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part is being done with it. And I will just add. I don't know if

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this is true of a lot of writers. I love searching for

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book covers. I think that is so much

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fun. So it's kind of like decorating. That's random, right?

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I think it is. I don't like decorating, but I like that part.

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Yeah. Well, you know, you've taught writing. You've obviously lived

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through some Hardships. And you've published stories that really.

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I feel like you help people feel seen.

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What is something that you hope readers take away from your work? Is there sort

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of an underlying. Is it just

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entertainment, or is there something that you hope that the readers take away

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from your books? As

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I'm writing, I'm always thinking of the

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reader. I can love writing something, but

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if. If there's no takeaway for my reader, there's

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really no point to me writing. If they can't see themselves

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in what I write, then it was a waste of time for me to

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write. And I like the readers that say, I never wrote my story, but

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if I had, I'd write similar to the way you write. Your voice is similar

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to mine. That's what I hope to accomplish when I teach

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classes. My ideal

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situation now that I'm retired would be

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to, like, visit a women's prison,

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maybe even online, because I don't really drive at night that much, and

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teach women, maybe in the prison system or that

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have fallen on hard times. How writing, how it can be

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therapy. Because even if you don't have power,

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just writing it down really in a way that's empowered you,

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you've at least made the effort to get it out. You've really taken ownership.

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And that's all you. Whatever it is. Right. Because you're you now.

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Yes. You now control what you're putting on paper. So you have kind of

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wrapped your fingers around it. Exactly. Well said.

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Yes. Exactly. What advice would you give someone that

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listens to this show, maybe here in Fairview, to our audience, target

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audience, is if they want to tell their story, but they don't know where to

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get started, what's the thing that they could do just to get

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started? The way I

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got started was I read quite a few of them of

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memoirs to see, and I picked out what I liked and didn't

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like, but I did in this book, things I wish I

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told you. The first thing you need to do

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is write down childhood experiences that you

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really remember well. And when you write it, it might

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not feel. You'd think, well, that's kind of stupid. That's not. But the fact that

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you keep thinking about it means something. There's something in

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there, in your subconscious that. That.

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That tells you it really impacted you more than you thought

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it had. And then they. And then we kind of shift into

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adulthood and how. How that's impacted you. That's true.

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Yeah. And I would just. I would just tell them, learn everything you can

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about the craft of writing. Don't don't write a.

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Don't. Don't embarrass yourself and write it a terrible

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piece of work. Get help from people. Get people to critique it.

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Honestly, not your Aunt Mary Lou, because she's going to tell you

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it's just wonderful. You need someone like my wife who's willing to tell you

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that stinks. Don't do that. You do. That's what you

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need. Yeah. Maybe I'll have a red at my next book. Oh,

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that's great. So. Yeah. And where can people

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find. If they want to reach out to you or if they want to find

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your books? Amazon, you know, is there.

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How do they connect with you from. To

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learn more about what you do in the books that you have? They want to

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know more about what you've written. Where would they go or how would they do

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that? I have. I don't know if. Well, I sent

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you that, I think my website. Yeah, we'll put that in the show notes. And

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I really. Oh, good. Yeah. I pour myself

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into the newsletters. I only. I make them monthly. I took

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a break as my husband had some health issues. And now I'll be back

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to. To the newsletters. And then I tell releases coming

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up and I ask for readers opinion sometimes. And then

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I'm on Facebook and I think I sent that. Yeah, we sent the.

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Sent those links. So you have a personal site. We'll link in the show notes.

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We'll link your phone. And if they want to sign up to the newsletter, they

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go to the website. They can go to the website and

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sign up. Yes. And you can feel free to

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give my email address out. Sometimes I do that if, if

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people are interested, like in having me speak. Awesome. And teach

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because I have PowerPoints of how to write a memoir and then how to

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write a fictional book and then how to write. Okay. You know, so

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that. And I don't charge for that. That's amazing. All right.

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Well, this has been a fabulous conversation. I really appreciate you taking time

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out of your Friday to jump on here with us. I think it's. It's

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a quintessential story from Fairview and getting neighborly. It really

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is what we are trying to promote through the EDC and really

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the town of Fairview, what to experience when you live here. So thank

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you for joining us. You're welcome. Can I give one little

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plug? Absolutely. Okay. So

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I attend and love Creekwood United

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Methodist Church in Allen. It's right up the street from me, like a mile

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from my house. And. And as a disclaimer

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I'm in choir there. I'm taking a little leave, but I've been in choir

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and all of the characters are made up. They're not based on anyone

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because I write that in the beginning of each book. So I just want

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that out there. No one is. You don't get upset,

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okay? I had to get that in. I love that

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when you go sit down on Wednesday night for practice or something. You don't want

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somebody elbowing you. Go, hey, yeah, I know who you were talking about.

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No, you don't. You don't want that. So you won't get to sing a solo

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in church if that's the case. I love that. Gay, thank you so much.

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Thank you folks. Thanks. This has been another chapter in the Book of

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Fairview and what a story it was. Big thanks to Gay Ann Kaiser

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for sharing not just her characters, but her courage.

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Thanks from all of us at Getting Neighborly podcast. Remember, whether you're here in

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Fairview, Texas or dreaming from afar, you're always part of our community. And

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as we wrap up, I want to say a big shout out to our friends

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at venturex, the premier co working space in the heart of Collin County.

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over at venturex Fairview for supporting Getting Neighborly and the

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Fairview Texas edc. I'm your Super. I'm your host, Super Dave

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Quinn, reminding you that here in Fairview, Texas, you're not just a neighbor, you're family.

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And until next time, keep the creative spirit alive and stay

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neighborly and make it a great day.

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And that's a wrap on another episode of Getting Neighborly. From the heart of

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Fairview, Texas, this is your host Super Dave Quinn and I can't thank you enough

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Corporation, thank you for your incredible support. Here's to

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more connections, more stories, and more success together. Until next

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time, stay inspired, stay driven, and above all, stay neighborly.