Author's Note

In this portion of my Writers’ Room interview with author Kathy Mexted about her book Australian Women Pilots, she talks about learning to trust her voice, put herself into a story, and present a subject in longer form to write this collection of ten biographical sketches of pioneering women pilots throughout the last hundred years of Australian aviation history.

In this portion of my writers’ room interview with Amy Goodpaster Strebe, she talks about publishing her masters thesis, which was a comparative study of the Women Air Force Service Pilots and the Women who flew for Russia, including the Nacht Hexen or Night Witches, entitled Flying for Her Country.

In this expert from my Writers’ Room interview with Merryl Tengesdal (which is actually S2E2), she shares her lessons learned from pressing to get her memoir published on a tight timeline driven by her appearance on the reality TV series, Tough as Nails, and she tells all of you out there who are on the fence about writing your memoirs to Just Do It!  

In this portion of my Writers’ Room interview with thriller novelist, Sandy Parks, whose books have been both traditionally and self-published, talks about how she developed her craft. 

In this Aviatrix Writers’ Room discussion with literary agent Amy Collins, she outlines the different requirements to query both agents and publishers depending on whether you’re writing fiction, memoir, prescriptive non-fiction, or narrative non-fiction. 

In this portion of my interview with publisher Brooke Warner of SheWrites Press and Sparks Press, we do a deep dive into hybrid publishing. 

In this Writers’ Room portion of my interview with author and writing professor Lauren Kessler, we talk about how she might approach the question of memory in memoir writing. 

In this portion of my Writers’ Room interview with Julie Tizard about her military lesbian romance novel, The Road to Wings, she starts off talking about developing conflict for her fictional characters and then we transition to talking about where we draw our creative inspiration. 

We’re jumping ahead in the process in this excerpt from my interview with book publicist Jennifer Coburn. Once you publish your book, you’re probably going to want to sell it. Some publishers will include a budget for book launch promotion, and others won’t. In this clip, Jennifer, who is the author of eight of her own books, worked as Robing Kardon’s publicist for the launch of her Flygirl series. Jenn tells us what that process and timeline look like, and how much it might cost. All things you’ll want to think about when envisioning the full picture of what writing and publishing your book looks like. You can find the full interview in The Aviatrix Writers Room on my website or YouTube Channel from August of 2021. 

As military members, and/or as pilots, we are not accustomed to exposing our emotions, but in order for our stories to resonate with an audience, we need to make an emotional connection. Author Adam Sikes and I commiserate.