Q: When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?

A: As a kid, I made up my own Janice Mann mysteries, inspired by Nancy Drew of course. But my mother always told us stories as kids, for me while getting my hair washed in the sink — which I really didn’t like much. Her Little Reddy Airplane stories got me through the beauty shop moments of my early childhood, and spawned the writer and the traveler in me. Reddy Airplane flew to far away places, taking his family with him on adventures all around the world. I think now that my mother wanted to go to all these places, but as a stay-at-home mom in suburbia in the fifties, stories were the best she could do.

Q: How and when did you this dream a reality?

A: Well, the answer to this really depends on which genre you mean. I wrote my first mystery-thriller novel, Sacred Night, in the mid-Nineties and published it upon forming Nightingale Press in 2003. Sidetracks followed in 2004. In 2006 I re-wrote and re-illustrated and then published Arthur, the Christmas Elf, a story I had first written in 1980 for my then four year old daughter. She’s 31 now. Time flies! I am just putting the finishing touches on Calling All Authors—How to Publish with Your Eyes Wide Open, to be released in August 2007. The advance reading copy did very well at BookExpo 2007 in New York City, and it has gotten great reviews and endorsements from authors and experts in the publishing industry alike.

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Q: When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?
A: I realized I wanted to be a writer when I noticed that all the cutest, smartest boys in high school were on the newspaper staff. Later, The bug for journalism bit, though. So I don’t mind admitting my ignominious beginnings.

Q: How and when did you make this dream a reality?
A: Only two years after that I was hired by the Salt Lake Tribune as a staff writer when this dream began to take shape. They call themselves a “Great Pulitzer Prize Winning Newspaper.” I based a chapter in my novel This Is the Place on what I did, completely unashamedly, to get that job so young. And, yes, This Is the Place is still available on Amazon. In fact, it has had a kind of rebirth since Mitt Romney is running for President and the novel is set in Utah. Coincidentally, even one of the minor characters in it is running for an elected office.

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Hi Women Writers!

Do you have a blog (or an online newsletter)?

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To your success,

Sheri McConnell–NAWW President

www.sherimcconnell.com

Q: When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?
A: I’ve always wanted to have “important stuff” to write, but never really thought I’d ever be a writer. When I was a kid, I’d copy down information from the encyclopedia because I thought it was so much more important and official than anything I could ever write. I had always admired others who wrote well, but never thought I was a particularly good writer because I had nothing original to say.

Q: How and when did you make this dream a reality?
A: I’ve been complimented on my writing ability my entire life. Quite frankly, the act of writing, while I was skilled at it, always gave me a massive headache. As I began to take a long, hard look at why writing was so painful, it occurred to me that I was always writing to adhere to someone else’s rules—the rules of an English teacher, the rules of a college professor, the rules of my boss, the rules of a client. It wasn’t until I made up my own rules—and started writing for me, in my own voice—that writing became a joy, rather than a chore.

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