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Interview & Book Review with Author Paulette Mahurin

Interview & Book Review with Author Paulette Mahurin
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Author’s Corner – Interview & Book Review with Author Paulette Mahurin

It was an honor to read Paulette Mahurin’s novel, His Name Was Ben and find out what inspired her to write the story story and what advice she gives to new writers. Below you will find my honest review and the interview.

About the Author

(Copied from author’s page)

Paulette Mahurin is an international best selling literary fiction and historical fiction novelist. She lives with her husband Terry and two dogs, Max and Bella, in Ventura County, California. She grew up in West Los Angeles and attended UCLA, where she received a Master’s Degree in Science.

Her first novel, The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap, made it to Amazon bestseller lists and won awards, including best historical fiction 2012 in Turning the Pages Magazine. Her second novel, His Name Was Ben, originally written as an award-winning short story while she was in college and later expanded into a novel, rose to bestseller lists its second week out. Her third novel, To Live Out Loud, won international critical acclaim and made it to multiple sites as favorite read book of 2015. Her fourth book, The Seven Year Dress, made it to the bestseller lists for literary fiction and historical fiction on Amazon U.S., Amazon U.K., and Amazon Australia. Her fifth book, The Day I Saw The Hummingbird, was released in 2017 to rave reviews.

Semi-retired, she continues to work part-time as a Nurse Practitioner in Ventura County. When she’s not writing, she does pro-bono consultation work with women with cancer, works in the Westminster Free Clinic as a volunteer provider, volunteers as a mediator in the Ventura County Courthouse for small claims cases, and involves herself, along with her husband, in dog rescue. Profits from her books go to help rescue dogs from kill shelters.

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Interview – Antoinette Truglio Martin – Author of Hug Everyone You Know

Interview with Antoinette Truglio Martin - Author of - Hug Everyone You Know

For the past few weeks, I’ve enjoyed reading Hug Everyone You Know by Antoinette Truglio Martin and write an honest review.  I also had the pleasure of interviewing Martin and talk about her works. Nothing has been altered in her answers, everything is in her own words.

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Interview with Antoinette Truglio Martin - Author of - Hug Everyone You Know

(Copied from Martin’s author’s page) Antoinette Truglio Martin is a speech therapist and special education teacher by training but really wants to be a writer when she grows up. She has been collecting writing and fashioning stories forever. Over the years, Antoinette had been a regular columnist in local periodicals and had several essays featured in newsletters and literary reviews. Her children’s picture book, Famous Seaweed Soup was published in 1993 (Albert Whitman Co.) She proudly holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Stony Brook/Southampton University (2016)  Continue reading “Interview – Antoinette Truglio Martin – Author of Hug Everyone You Know”