This week on the show we get to wish an amazing author a Happy Release Day! Sandra A. Miller joins Michelle this week to tell us all about her fabulous new book, Wednesdays at One, and how her husband’s career and their real-life stalker inspired the story. She talks about the journey to being published and how it definitely wasn’t an overnight process, and she shares some wonderful words of encouragement by telling us all to never give up on our dreams. Join us this week for a wonderful conversation about writing, red carpets, and real-life treasure hunts.
In This Episode, Michelle Talks About
- The inspiration behind Wednesdays at One
- Sandra’s journey to become an author
- How Sandra used writing to search for meaning and connection
The inspiration behind Wednesdays at One
Sandra tells us about how her husband of 25 years came to her one day to tell her that someone had been stalking them. He had a patient that knew all kinds of specific information about them. She tells Michelle that it was a nightmare that went on for 3 or 4 years where they were stalked relentlessly. Sandra took this and started to think what if a psychiatrist who is used to being in control and in charge was suddenly in this situation where this woman knew all these things about him and makes him feel really terrified? Then add to this that he’s done something horrible in his past, and from this the idea for her novel was born.
Sandra’s journey to become an author
How Sandra used writing to search for meaning and connection
Sandra talks to Michelle about how she lost her mum in 2013 and was having a real struggle with it. She wanted to tell a story about searching for her mother as a middle-aged woman who had lost a mother that she never felt connected to. At the same time, she was on a real-life treasure hunt, and so ended up publishing her first novel about the actual search for gold and treasure, as well as the metaphorical search for meaning and connection with her mother.
Links Mentioned
Wednesdays at One By Sandra A. Miller
The Artists Way by Julia Cameron
