Dawn Brotherton is an award-winning author and featured speaker at writing and publishing seminars. When it comes to exceptional writing, Dawn draws on her experience as a retired colonel in the US Air Force as well as a softball coach. Her books include the Jackie Austin Mysteries and the Global Ebook Bronze Award Winner, Worth the Wait. She is a contributing author to the non-fiction A-10s over Kosovo, sharing stories from her deployment. She has also written middle grade book Lady Tigers Series about girls’ fastpitch softball, encouraging female athletes to reach for the stars in the game they love. For more information about Dawn’s books and book signings, go to http://www.DawnBrothertonAuthor.com.
She offers a unique perspective from inside the military with her first book, The Obsession and its sequel, Wind the Clock. Dawn is currently working on the third book in the series, Truth Has No Agenda.
An avid fastpitch softball player, umpire, and coach, Dawn designed a new Scorebook that makes it easier to take notes and enables the coaches to re-create the game at a later date to pull out lessons learned for the players.
Inspired by her love of the game and her two daughters, Dawn is working on The Lady Tigers Series, fiction stories about a girls’ softball organization where the girls learn that being part of a team is about more than just playing softball. The target audience for this series is middle grade readers. Order your copy of Trish’s Team, Margie Makes a Difference, Nicole’s New Friend, and Tammy Tries Baseball today.
Time Stamped Show Notes:
How are you doing? [00:24]
What part of the world are you in right now? [00:35]
Which of your talents was responsible for us connecting at this time in history? [00:41]
On the book, The Lady Tigers [01:04]
Are you a sports person? [01:55]
How many brothers and sisters do you have? [02:13]
Did you grow up being called tomboy? [02:21]
Who did you learn the sports skill from? [02:38]
Why would you continue to be the person that does what isn’t the norm? [02:51]
Tell us about your military service. [03:07]
Where is the best place to follow up on the books you’ve written? [04:10]
What is one thing you’ve done consistently over the last 3 years? [04:19]
How do you teach people how to get published? [04:27]
How does it make you feel to see individuals that are publishing their book through what you’ve written? [05:20]
What is your earliest childhood memory? [06:24]
Why do you think this memory is so clear? [06:31]
How do you see that memory connecting to who you are today? [06:40]
What was your favorite song when you were twelve years old? [07:05]
Declaration Time – [07:31]
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