Tina Sloan plays many parts and confronts a lot of drama as an actress and author.  Among her many roles in film and television, Tina spent 26 years portraying Lillian Raines on the CBS soap The Guiding Light.  Over the course of time, she watched Lillian’s character get fewer and fewer lines and become more and more invisible.   At the same time her personal life took twists.  While caretaking her parents and seeing her son shipped off to the war in Iraq, she spent less time turning the lens on herself.  Her extraordinary remedy?  Run in several marathons, climb to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, write a book in her 60’s, and tour a one-woman show.  Tina’s life picked up and, not incidentally, so did Lillian’s plot on the soap.  

Today, Tina talks with us about her second book, Chasing Cleopatra, a novel that launched this month on her 77th birthday.  And she’s not done yet.  Tina Sloan is a twister supreme.  

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Chasing Cleopatra: A Novel of Love Betrayal and Suspense

Changing Shoes: Getting Older – Not Old – with Style, Humor and Grace