Claire O’Sullivan has been on the show before, to talk about her writing process. Here is her bio in her own words:
I’m a mom and grandmother. When my husband and I married, he already had 2 kids and 2 grandkids, and I already had my son, so I became an instant grandmother as well with the largest family on the face of the earth.
((What was funny at my wedding, I didn’t wear my glasses, well, because, who wants to, right? So we’re walking down the aisle and I see all of these folks crowding one side. I’d met my husband’s family at a Thanksgiving dinner, and there were at least fifty family members and their spouses, so going down the aisle I thought, wow, I knew his family was big but… Well, I’d lost my mom and dad years back, and so my son was with me, but no one else. And when I finally put my glasses on, my entire church had turned out and filled up the pews. It was pretty phenomenal. And funny.))
So I retired officially in 2018 though I’d closed my office quite a bit earlier, got our youngest son and his wife to move into the house while we remodeled and put in a mother-in-law studio, which is quite cozy for us. And we get to see our kids.
Besides writing, reading, and drinking coffee, I love to garden. My husband says I am low maintenance because I am always reading or writing… never grabbing the remote. We live in rural Southern Oregon weathering the changes.
I started writing in 8th grade with the encouragement of a teacher, and she suggested I get into journalism and creative writing in high school, which I did. My folks were old fashioned and they were firm: no writing, no archeology, no wildlife biology. So I became a nurse, and got married, had a son, and life sort of happened. I wrote a novel in 1989 but never got serious about sending it off, and that was a thriller. Then I went off to grad school and became a nurse practitioner, opened my own office, and didn’t start writing until 2012, and that’s when I started Romance Under Wraps.
Claire’s debut novel is entitled, Romance Under Wraps and can be purchased on her website at:
https://www.claireosullivan1.com/
or on Amazon at:
https://www.amazon.com/Romance-Under-Wraps-Claire-OSullivan-ebook/dp/B08MB43BSL/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2IMRWCOCRINH6&dchild=1&keywords=romance+under+wraps+claire+o%27sullivan&qid=1613957359&sprefix=romance+under+wraps%2Caps%2C244&sr=8-2
To Watch the book trailer, visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3mS-lsXv1s
Listen to Claire’s previous interview:
https://anchor.fm/inspirational-journeys/episodes/Special-Guest-interview-with-Claire-OSullivan-e44urm
Connect with Claire at the following links:
Website: https://www.claireosullivan1.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorclaire1
Twitter:
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorclaire1
USA.life at https://usa.life/claireosullivan
Gab: https://gab.com/authorclaire1
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