This Is the Author

"My personal journey inspired the book. By turning 40 myself, I had suddenly entered this age that no one could define for me. For the first time I had to sort of define it for myself."

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"This book is the second part of a three-book series that is taking the stories told through my podcast called LORE as well as stories that aren’t public on the podcast, and presenting them in an organized, collated, curated sense. The first book was about monstrous creatures, about things, and this book, being called WICKED MORTALS, is about all of those dastardly and tricky human beings who have done unspeakable things."

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"I knew I wanted to write another book about time management, and really the phrase “off the clock” popped into my head while I was running in Maine one morning. I had gone there for a long weekend trip with my husband, and it was one of those strange experiences where in the morning I suddenly realized I had nothing I had to do that day, which is kind of a rare thing in my life. I took off to run and as I was running along, that phrase, “I am off the clock” popped into my head. And so I wanted to explore that idea a little more."

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"The book is about how each of us have the power to create movements and walks you through the steps of how to do that, as told through the real stories of people and sometimes surprising people who have already done it."

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"My novel Star of the North is a thriller set in North Korea, American and China. It’s about three characters, all unconnected, whose lives cross in unusual and unexpected ways."

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"Getting Back to Happy is really the journey of the lessons we learned from losing two loved ones back to back to illness and suicide and then losing Angel’s breadwinning job in the downturn of the economy. Certainly, there’s people who have it worse but everyone internalizes pain and depression and grief in different ways. It was a very low point in our lives."

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"What planted the seed for me to write this book was my own postpartum healing experience. As I was in my own recovery process, I recognized that I was having individual considerations but I could also tell that what I was going through was a collective and archetypal experience."

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"I wrote my book because I really felt like Jim Brown is a complicated figure, and we don’t write enough about complicated people. He is not perfect, he is not evil, he is not an angel. I think that in itself provides lessons that are incredibly rich for us today. We don’t do much good in this world when we put our heroes so high up on a pedestal that we can’t even reach them."

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The Men in Blazers are two English-born, soccer-obsessed broadcasters who have savored the dizzying growth of the game along with millions of Americans, as if it was a rollicking, sporting telenovela playing out in real life. This is their behind-the-scenes interview discussing the recording of Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica.

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"The seed for this book was actually a vacation I took to Seattle a few years ago when I stopped in Pioneer Square. There was a giant totem pole there and there was a ranger wearing a smoky bear hat. He told me that in 1899, there had been a brief fad of stealing totem poles from Alaska."

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