Midwife, public health nurse, and author Lisa McGeeney tells us all about her journey to becoming a writer, falling down rabbit holes, and the books she always returns to.
from Lisa McGeeney’s examination of nursing and midwifery in the nineteenth century, and today we’re catching up with the author to hear all about the making ofDid you always want to become an author?
The idea of becoming an author has been an emergent one as I’ve gotten older. I have friends who are writers and I’ve always admired their talent of expressing themselves through their words but I am a procrastinator so it took having a deadline to get me writing in earnest. I didn’t think my first book would be non- fiction but if my Masters in Local History has been the catalyst for me becoming an author then I rejoice in that.My earliest writing of any significance was letter writing.
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