At the “Local Author Showcase”, held at the King’s English Bookstore on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010, Lisa and I had the opportunity to meet six local authors and hear them share a little bit about their book(s). Here are the authors that were there and the books they were discussing:
Susanna Barlow, “What Peace There May Be“; Ryan Shattuck, “Revolutions for Fun and Profit“; Charles Amonett, “Visible Darkness, Hidden Light“; Bonn Turkington, “Velwythe“; Steven Bates, “The Fortuitous Redemption of Mordekiah Liebovitch“; Lisa Mangum, “The Hourglass Door”
I was impressed with all six of the authors and their different approaches to life and writing.
I was also quite pleased with an answer that Bonn Turkington gave to the question, “how did you find the time to write while doing all the other things that living requires, like working?” His response, in a nutshell, was, “I made it a habit.” He elaborated a little bit by saying that everyone has activities during the day that are either non-essential or are being done in an inefficient way. By tightening those things up and making writing a habit, it is easy to write while doing the other things that life requires.