Q1. Hello, can you please introduce yourself? Readers would love to know more about you.
This question hard for me because I don’t remember a lot. Hello my name is Berandine A. Ziegler, I have Brown hair, smokey blue eyes, I am going to be 58 soon born on D-Day, I live in a town called Barberton, Ohio, I was born here. I live with my husband going on 16 years, everyday a challenge, but I love marriage life, I am a fur mom no human children. I always worked when I was younger in age but I always got laid – off so I always had to find another one, they seemed to fall into my lap. I am very disabled now because of two of my jobs from the past, so is my husband for almost the same reason. I always came back to writing, never knew why.
Q2. What were the key challenges you faced while writing your book “His Ultimate Path”?
I really didn’t have to much of a challenge, when someone would say a word a thought vision would travel through my head and by my eyes. My husband found all my written journals you think I would be mad but when he said why don’t you finish and publish them? I always have problems with spelling because of my Epilepsy, which I don’t have now. Just poor is all.
Q3. What books or authors have most influenced your own writing?
When I was being told I would never be able to read or write. So I never knew what my health issue was I went to the schools library. I always read Edgar Alan Poe, Robert & Elizabeth Browning, Emily Dickerson, but most of all my most favorite St. Francis De Sales, which is also my favorite Church. I also read old poems from the old days.
Q4. What’s your favourite spot to visit in your own country? And what makes it so special to you?
My favorite places in my country is all of the Roman Catholic Churches, I am so at peace In God’s House, just being there at mass or my Adoration Hours, I feel so cleansed from the outer world, I also love to go cruising on the open sea waters, I feel free to be my true self, I feel so a live, one with God’s Creations.
Q5. Is there lots to do before you dive in and start writing a book?
There is a lot of work but for certain piece of “His Ultimate Path.” I did have to do some research just to make sure I am on the right path, so I don’t end up using someone else’s words. Since I am disabled I just make sure all my chores are completed for the day, so I don’t have any interruptions.Once I my hand and thoughts get going there is no stopping.
Q6. How long did it take you to write your book ‘His Ultimate Path’?
This is kind of hard to say because some of the pieces were written way before I met my husband and I was was still fight through my Epilepsy, and some are from a child who is not with us and her poems are about 54 years old, I taught my husband how to write poems until the year 2006. I took a few years to get published, it stalled in the middle of processing for at least 3 more years, while it was stalled I did more research on a few more poems and short stories. When my husband and I finally won our disability cases back in 2018.
Q7. On what platforms can readers buy your books?
Well all of my books have different publishing companies: “The many Wonders Of Deanie” is from Page Publishing, in New York. “His Ultimate Path” is from Dorrance Publishing from Pittsburg Pennsylvania, My audio book is in New Jersey, a company called audio book network, but all can be found books-a-million barnes & noble, goodreads, I can’t name them all but everywhere you can find books and anywhere you can download e-books.
Q8. Tell us about the process of coming up with the book cover and the title ‘His Ultimate Path’?
The title I am not sure if that was an accident because I was working on some research a story called “His Ultimate Path” Then a e-mail came through from my publisher, the next step was the title and cover. I didn’t have a title for it then as I was typing God must of been using my hands because “His Ultimate Path” is what was written. The cover was from a vision I was seeing through my eyes for many years.
Q9. When writing a book how do you keep things fresh, for both your readers and also yourself?
For my reader’s I guess things are always fresh because I make some things funny in both of my books I make some funny, sweet, and thought provoking always about everyday things in a persons life, but they are all messages of hope, written by people who in a public’s eye didn’t have any hope. As for keeping things fresh for myself well every time I write and complete something my husband does the editing for me and after he is done and God approves he erases it from our minds even though our names are there and so is the date and time we still don’t remember any of them.
Q10. What is the most valuable piece of advice you’ve been given about writing?
I actually have never been given any advice about writing, I did a lot of research and going to many different English classes, to try and understand or figure out what I needed to learn to self teach I tried many different writing school in the mail and they didn’t help, so I went back to looking for more books. I also tried to enter some writing contest didn’t work. This was long before my husband, I also took some typing classes at night school, some poetry classes from libraries many classes many libraries no advice along the way it just clicked one day.
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