I was honored to be interviewed on the Inspirational Indie Author podcast. Howard Lovy asked me about my adventurous spirit and ideas on how I’m dealing with self-isolation during the COVID 19 pandemic.
Partial transcript
Howard Lovy: I’m Howard Lovy and you’re listening to Inspirational Indie Authors.
Every week I feature a member of the Alliance of Independent Authors to find out what inspires them and how they are an inspiration to other authors.
My guest this week is Sonja Dewing, an adventure writer who enjoys living on the wild side while she writes about it; whether it’s touring the Amazon or mixing it up in the roller derby.
Sonja decided to quit her job a few years ago to focus on her writing, travel, and helping other authors, and has not regretted the decision for one second.
Sonja Dewing: I’m Sonja Dewing, I am an award-winning creative writer. I have two published novels and one published nonfiction. I love writing fiction and I also enjoy helping out other authors get into the writing process.
Oh my gosh, I realized I was a writer when I was a kid. I remember writing “a novel” when I was like 13, and I still have it. It’s handwritten, maybe a hundred pages, and it’s awful. But I knew back then that I wanted to write stories and be creative. I took some creative writing courses in college and in high school as well, and I still have some of the papers. And my professors would note on my papers, “Don’t stop writing,” which unfortunately, I did. But I always loved writing stories and being creative about them, and my main interest was always sci-fi, which I thought was interesting that, my first novel, was adventure. But I always enjoyed writing sci-fi originally, in the beginning.