Author to Author Interview with Ellen Booraem
Write Better Now
Those of you who hang out here may have noticed that I didn’t post much this week. Apologies for that. I had a very busy week for the paper and was reminded once again how evil people can occasionally be.
This always shakes me.
And when I’m shaken? I’m not quite as productive.
So, I’m sharing this interview I did with Ellen a couple of years ago. Ellen was once my boss at a newspaper in Ellsworth, Maine. She became a fiction writer, too. And she is very wise and very smart.
Apologies for how big my head is here! I really should have sat back a bit more.
I hope you have a lovely and amazing week and don’t have to deal with evil people.
The amazing writer and human, Ellen Booraem, spent nineteen years as a small-town journalist before quitting her day job to write four award-winning fantasies for readers ten and older (The Unnameables, Small Persons with Wings, Texting the Underworld and River Magic.
In this bonus podcast, we talked about Ellen’s writing tips to deal with writing blocks, the big leaps she took to start a fiction career at 52, and the incredibly cool WORD festival (the annual Blue Hill Maine literary arts festival) that happens every October in Downeast Maine (which you should all check out).
We also touch on how working at a newspaper made us both visual writers and trained us for fiction.
Ellen volunteers as a writing coach for students in her local middle school and is a founding organizer for Word, the annual Blue Hill (Maine) literary arts festival.
Having ventured from her early time as Alton Hall Blackington’s next door neighbor in coastal Massachusetts, she now lives in coastal Maine with her partner, painter Robert Shillady. Publisher’s Weekly called Ellen’s latest novel, “A dense emotional core, resonant voice, and themes of grief, shifting friendships, and family enliven Booraem’s contemporary fantasy, reminding readers that ‘hope is everywhere.’”
To find out more about Ellen and her books, check out Ellen’s website.
To find out more about WORD (which is online this year), you can check out its website here.