Discovered Wordsmiths

Besides being an author, Brooke is a Life and Career Strategist . She enjoys hiking and photography and lives in Colorado.

She started writing because it gave her a chance to get feelings out, like journaling. This grew into the thought that she wanted to write a book.

You can find Brooke at:www.rootsofabundance.comwww.facebook.com/rootsofabundance

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One of Brooke's favorite books:

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Favorite Bookstore: Tattered Cover - Denver, Colorado

Judy talks about what she has learned with setting a daily goal as a top priority. She's also learned that she can't take 17 years to write her second book, and had it being published the day we recorded the podcast.

Being a new author, Judy struggles with getting her book in front of readers without having money to market. Together we explore ideas to jump start her marketing and get her book in front of people.

We look at Story Origin as a great way to start since it is currently free while being developed.

Several other ideas are talked about, all of which can be used by any author that is starting their career.

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Judy Moffitt lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia and has lived there most of her life. At Longwood college, she majored in Political Science and minored in mathematics. She is now retired from a career in Data Analyst (which she did for the Navy), but has also been a sewer planner amongst other jobs.

Currently she lives with her two rescue dogs and when not writing likes to work with a local photography group and enjoys fractal art. In fact, some of her art is on permanent display at Longwood college match department.

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Her book is military science fiction involving a coup against the government.

Some of her favorite books:

David Weber Honor Harrington series

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Even though Judy doesn't go to many bookstores, a favorite close to her is Prince Book Norfolk Virginia.

Kevin and Stephen talk about how to market fantasy stories in today's world. Kevin doesn't like writing typical fantasy, and this makes marketing even more difficult. Publishing poetry also adds interesting elements to trying to market.

Kevin talks about not following marketing advice and why the general advice doesn't work for his books.

Kevin has lived all over the U.S. but currently lives in the southwest. He has daughters and loves to read. When he had a heart attack, he realized he needed to work on his writing if her ever wanted to get his books out.

He is published with Modern Folklore Press, where his current book is coming out.

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One of his favorite books is:

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Bookstores he enjoys:

The Writers Block - Las Vegas

Gibson's Bookstore - Concorde, NH

Kim and I continue talking, but we switch from her book to talking about communities. Specifically, author communities and how they benefit writers.

We have both been in different groups and met in a great mastermind group. Everyone has different experiences and all groups are different, but there are good and bad to look for.

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KS Barton Website

Kim has the best job as a writer - she works in a library! Besides writing, she enjoys drums, dancing and aikido - which she has practiced for 17 years. She writes and shelves books at her local library in Tucson, Arizona.

Her first book was about Aikido, but she has written her first fiction book that involves Norse mythology and history.

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One of her favorite books:

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A local bookstore she likes to frequent:

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Besides writing, Ran works in the mental health field, so discussing mental health and how it affects writers was a natural. We also discuss how writers can take care of their mental health to continue writing.

Ran lives in Ontario Canada, and as we talked, the temp was WAY below zero. She works in the mental health field, which is what we talk about in the second half, but she views her writing as a major part of her life, starting at the tender age of 6.

She's also an avid board/card gamer, which I can relate to. Playing games can be very creative and is also a good way to relax.

She is working on publishing her first books but she has been a part of publishing a memoir written by her grandfather. The book has been sitting around for over 30 years and Ran worked to get its story out to the world.

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Some of her favorite books:

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The bookstore she likes is 2 hours north of here - Chat Noir

Jeff has had several changes in his life - lawyer to politician to writer to CEO of a non-profit. We talk about how to handle those changes and why he chose to make writer one of those life changes.