THE HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS: INTERVIEW AND GIVEAWAY

THE HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS
BY BETTY AUCHARD
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The eldest of 3 in an unconventional family making their way by The Great Depression, Betty narrates this humorous as well as touching recollection. Although poor in possessions, Bettys family leads the hold up so abounding in misunderstanding which it rivals todays sitcoms.

Bettys immature parents tie as well as extricate the marital tangle 3 times amidst the string of separations. When kin turn as well sap to keep the children, Betty as well as her siblings have been forsaken off during The Home for the Friendless where they suffer 3 meals the day, indoor plumbing, the grassy playground, as well as plenty of holiday parties.
The family reunites dual years after as well as the drum coaster resumes. The Peals pierce mixed times across dual states, proof which adore overcomes all as well as which normal isnt always better.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Betty Auchard is the writer of the IPPY Award winning Dancing in my Nightgown: The Rhythms of Widowhood, permitted by celebrity widows Jayne Meadows as well as Rosemarie Stack. In further to writing, she enjoys presenting to audiences as well as narrating her own audio books. Her stories as well as essays have been published in the San Jose Mercury News, Today's Senior, as well as Chocolate for the Woman's Soul series. Betty lives as well as writes in Los Gatos, California.
Visit the writer during www.bettyauchard.com as well as join her fans upon Facebook.
AUTHOR INTERVIEW:

1. Welcome,! Betty, as well as appreciate we for similar to visit BOOKIN' WITH BINGO. Before we go on, can we tell us the small about yourself as well as additionally where my readers can find some-more report about we if which is posssible?
Yes, indeed. My dual websites were created for dual different books: www.bettyauchard.com is for my brand new book, The Home for the Friendless. www.dancinginmynightgown.com is my publishers site for Dancing in My Nightgown.Im attaching multiform things which we can use any way we want.

• two-sided sell piece which advertises my brand new book, The Home for the Friendless
• the book cover
• my photo
• the cover of my initial book (Dancing in My Nightgown) only for your report Both books have been listed upon Amazon along with the Spanish book as well as audio book of Dancing, though Im promoting The Home for the Friendless.

Im the retired art clergyman who became the writer after my father of 49 years died of cancer over twelve years ago. we was 68 when we proposed essay about my adventures as well as misadventures while learning how to be single. Stories only floated out of me with no effort, while we was unknowingly which preserving my sad/funny experiences had turn my apparatus for healing. It incited me into the writer. Six years of stories became an IPPY Award-winning discourse in 2005. So after years of training art, we became the published writer during 75. During those initial 6 years of reinventing myself, we signed up for each essay category we could fist into my life. During those classes, we became motivated to write about my childhood. we had no thought which both subjects, widowhood as well as childhood, would turn into books. All we knew was which we couldnt stop writing. we was obsessed. The Home for the Friendless, my current book, took about 10 years to lift together. we only incited 80, as well as the book will be released November 1. It was many harder to write because which partial o! f my hol d up happened so prolonged ago which my dual siblings had to help me resurrect the family memories. Without my brother as well as sister, this book might never have happened. we additionally had some-more to learn about essay this time around as well as finally hired the tutor. It took me the year to correct my original publishing for Friendless. It was the frustrating, nonetheless exciting, journeykind of similar to removing all your teeth pulled during once as well as replacing them solemnly with implants. About my hold up now: we have 4 grown children, 8 grandchildren, as well as 6 great grandchildren. we see many of them often. we similar to to dance, swim, as well as grassed area when we can fit them in, though many of the time Im possibly essay brand new stories or operative upon my vocalization schedule. we adore the live audience roughly some-more than we adore writing. The personal rewards for essay as well as vocalization have been distant larger than the rewards in revenue. 2. Where did we get the impulse or thought for this book? The thought came to me eleven years ago in an online discourse category called LifeLore which provided prompts for essay about the growing-up years as well as immature adulthood. 3. How did the title of your book come about?There was never the disbelief about the title of this book; it was pre-ordained. The Home for the Friendless is directly continuous to only partial dual of 8 parts, though the homeless thesis is woven by all the stories. 4. Do we see yourself in your characters? As the narrator, we had to find out how to turn the main character. It sounded easy, though it wasnt during all. we hired the essay coach, Bruce McAllister (www.mcallistercoaching.com), who helped me immensely. When the revision was ready to go, my own editor, Sandi-Corbitt-Sears (sandi@threeviewdesign.com), helped me gloss the stories. Hiring the professional editor is the final, vicious partial of presenting the publishing for publication. 5. Which characters have been easiest o! r some-m ore formidable to write?Developing myself as the sense was the many formidable thing in the world. But once we got the cling to of it, we only let myself go as well as became the partial of the story. All of the other cast members in my family grown flattering easily.6. What books would have made the greatest sense upon you? This is hard to pinpoint because each book we read is my the the single preferred during the time. The ones which stick in my mind longer substantially have left the greatest impression. we felt moved by The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, as well as we still cant stop thinking about it. we only finished celebration of the mass the charming, poignant, happy, droll Guernsey Literary as well as Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shafer as well as Annie Barrows. we still smile about it. 7. What have been we right away reading?Right now, Im celebration of the mass The Hunger Games, the initial book in the trilogy by Suzanne Collins.
8. What is the next or current book/project we have been operative on?
Im having fun essay the discourse story called Living with Twelve Men. Its about my hold up as the brand new bride while vital in the boys dorm for dual years. My father was their supervisor. we dont devise for it to turn the book, though Im enjoying essay the story. After thats finished, we wish to write an additional the single called My Gin as well as Tonic Period about my dual years as the youth tall propagandize art clergyman while we was in menopause. The combination of kids in puberty as well as the woman in menopause is not the great mix. Its the spectacle we wasnt fired. 8. What is something about we which we would wish people to know which they substantially dont know?I was the marriage thespian in my other life, as well as sang in the contingent each week for the campus radio uncover during my beginner year in college. Also, after we retired from training art, we was the putting in service artist for 5 years, selling my work w! ith arti cles about my leaf-printing to multiform vital magazines. we was additionally the illustrator for stories submitted to the California South Bay Writers Club monthly newsletter. we have given traded the sketch coop as well as paper for the set of keys as well as screen. 9. What is your best advice to anyone, including immature people, who wish to be writers?If we have an eagerness to write, only do it. If we can talk, we can write. Do not revise as we go, only GET IT DOWN as well as regard yourself with modifying later. Read similar to mad. Never give up celebration of the mass because it inspires your own stories. we generally titillate seniors as well as grandparents to write about when they were kids. Theres no improved gift they can leave for their families. When we all die, the stories go with us. If were still here, were vital history.

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