You can learn more about this author and her books by visiting her website at jnksansone.com or lulu.com.
Meet author Katie Sansone, mother, grandmother, child of God.
CB: Welcome Katie. Let’s begin with a brief description of who Katie Sansone is:
KS: I am a woman who puts GOD and family above all and friends too! Loyal, compassionate, caring, loving are things that could be said about me as a person. I don’t mean to sound prideful, but I do tend to love others a lot (must be JESUS in me, as the flesh is not that way)! I love to garden (with all this rain we have now I may as well take up boating)! I smile as I say this, but it is really a serious situation up here in Iowa now! I love taking walks, crocheting and other things too! Getting wordy here! You said brief, didn’t you? Ok. That’s about it.
CB: Tell us a bit about your work. What books have you written?
KS: I have Katie-Bear out now and my Christian fiction My First 24 Hours In Hell will be out very soon... this month! I have about three or four other kiddie books coming out, hopefully by the Holiday season. Also my Life Journal is being written too, so I have been pretty busy! Anyone out there have a TAC for me!?
CB: What goals do you have in mind for future books, if any?
KS: Oh, I don’t plan too far ahead, but as I said, I have several other books that will be out soon and more sitting here looking at me, waiting their turn to give lots of readers a good laugh or maybe a tear or two.
CB: What one thing in your life has inspired you the most while writing?
KS: Probably my love for children. Wanting to make them laugh or smile by my funny-side that I share just with them (sometimes a few adults see it too)! I have always read or told my own made-up stories to my children while they grew up (even into teens). Guess the girls will never forget Miss Winnamaker! Or Mrs. Hyde-Smythe! LOL! Some really off-the-wall stories I made up for them!
CB: What do you like the most about writing, the least, and why?
KS: The most is to bring pleasure to others. The least? Probably because I haven’t got more time!
CB: What one piece of advice would you care to give aspiring writers who are yet to be published?
KS: Well, that also includes me, too, since I am an aspiring writer! I think the thing I would tell others is to “put themselves” into the story. Make the characters like them or from a personality of someone they admire or love.
CB: Would you say that God is an important part in your writing and why?
KS: Oh by all means! Without HIM, I may be the one who does not have my right mind to do anything except sit in a wheelchair and stare outside all day, and have others tend to my needs. Yes, HE is my all in all in life!
CB: How do you get your ideas for your books?
KS: Mostly from the feelings I have inside. Like I told Jessica one time, it is like a diver who just “has to come up for air”! I have to get my ides on paper because they are like bubbles bursting inside me! Also, my own children and grandies have inspired much of Katie-Bear!
CB: What avenues have you taken as far as marketing you and your work, and of those, what has worked best and least for you?
KS: Advertisements all around the web, lots of sites and slides online, and I’ve told lots of friends and family. I sent out promos in newspapers (hometown, etc.) and have passed out my name cards. I had a book signing in a new Super Mart! And I’m having another in my hometown of Ashland, KY in August of this year. I even have a sign in my car like a “friend” told me to do. Things like that.
This interview appeared in Writer's Block - July 2008
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