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This week's guest is Shayla Dugan (Learning to Swim, Egret Lake Books, May 2024). We discuss how adding humor can provide a more grounded emotional experience for a reader. what it's like writing a character at a life stage you haven't yet experienced, and how a background in helping professions like nursing, social work, and psychology contributes to understanding complex family dynamics in a novel. Then stay tuned for how Shayla located, then partnered with a novice publisher and how a chance remark by her husband led to her most effective marketing tool.
Shayla Dugan is a writer making her fiction novel debut. She loves to write both fiction and creative non-fiction full of humor and heart. As a former social worker, her career centered mostly around the areas of grief, loss, and end of life care. Her experiences with clients helped her to understand and appreciate a variety of personalities, family dynamics, and the importance of storytelling. She resides in Arizona with her husband in their nearly empty nest where she spends her time replacing the roles of her adult children with dogs and relishing any visits with her young grandchildren whom she lovingly refers to as "the hurricane."
To learn more about Shayla, click here.
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This week's guest is Shayla Dugan (Learning to Swim, Egret Lake Books, May 2024). We discuss how adding humor can provide a more grounded emotional experience for a reader. what it's like writing a character at a life stage you haven't yet experienced, and how a background in helping professions like nursing, social work, and psychology contributes to understanding complex family dynamics in a novel. Then stay tuned for how Shayla located, then partnered with a novice publisher and how a chance remark by her husband led to her most effective marketing tool.
Shayla Dugan is a writer making her fiction novel debut. She loves to write both fiction and creative non-fiction full of humor and heart. As a former social worker, her career centered mostly around the areas of grief, loss, and end of life care. Her experiences with clients helped her to understand and appreciate a variety of personalities, family dynamics, and the importance of storytelling. She resides in Arizona with her husband in their nearly empty nest where she spends her time replacing the roles of her adult children with dogs and relishing any visits with her young grandchildren whom she lovingly refers to as "the hurricane."
To learn more about Shayla, click here.

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