What inspired you to write your memoir?
Life changing events before and during our four years in Australia occured and a friend said.’you couldn’t make that stuff up, you need to write a book.’ so I did!!
About your Book:
Is the glass half empty or half full? Ironically, sometimes life influences our view, and alters our perception.
Life changing events, up to 1997, almost destroyed me. At my lowest point, and just in time, I met Nigel. He helped me to discover how a positive attitude can change everything. I decided not to squander anymore of my time or energy on undeserving people.
This new positive approach helps me to perceive my glass as half full, with my aim being to achieve a happy and healthy life for my family. Together, we live life to the full. In 2008 and with good times ahead of us, my glass was half full. As a family, we made the biggest and most difficult decision of our lives; part of our family would immigrate to Australia.
We lived the Australian dream; embracing the adventure until adversity came to test us. A sequence of life changing events including, a close family bereavement, PTSD ( Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,) following a road rage car accident and the shock of losing the roots to our Australian adventure as a result of the Brisbane floods tested us on many levels.
Glass Half Full follows our journey into happy, sad and challenging times. Find out, what it takes to survive, when the odds are stacked against you. Do you fight back, and if so at what cost physically and emotionally? Could we maintain our positivity and family values against the odds?
This is our story.
How did you decide how to publish your book and where is it published through:
I decided to self publish because to be honest I thought only family and friends would be interested in reading it, however the reaction has been amazing and heart warming.
I have published Glass Half Full with Amazon Kindle, Smashwords and Createspace for the paperback version. I have to say it was very straight forward, daunting at first as I am a bit of a PC dinosaur, but if I can do anyone can. There are numerous free guides available and I just worked my way through them.
How do you see writing a Memoir as different from writing other genres of books?
Writing a memoir enables you to write with true feeling and passion, as the events and feelings are real, genuine and experienced.
Author Bio:
My name is Sarah Jane; I am a wife and mother, and for 27 years I was a qualified nurse. I have always loved writing and for the majority of my life it was confined to my journals. However, at a time when you have to make life-changing decisions, what really counts is what is inside you, how you feel and the love of the people around you. Sitting in a caravan in Queensland after the floods contemplating our future, my husband Nigel, said, “If you want to be a writer you need to just do it. Do something about it, learn how to write or just write.”
Taking these words to heart, I realised that, I was the only one who could make it happen. So I did. I enrolled in two Diploma courses. A Diploma in Journalism and a Diploma in Creative Writing; I started my first assignment, in our caravan whilst we were still trying to work out our future.
I currently live in Southwest France with my husband, and with his support, I now write full time. I am busy writing the sequel,’ Two suitcases, two dogs and one big idea’ which follows our French adventure. We are currently renovating a rural French cottage and life is good.
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