Interview with author Bernadine Ziegler

Q1) What is your favorite line from the many many wonders of Deanie?

A 1) I actually have three lines: I will always love you and I will never let you go.

You still have to flush your cares away.

It just doesn’t make any sense to keep secrets.

Q 2) What would say is your strength as a writer?

A 2) Knowing that God, will always be at my side when I get stuck or can’t figure out something He fills in the blanks, and of course my Husband helps me a lot by encouragement and his love for me.

Q 3) How do you manage your work schedule?

A 3) I don’t really have a work schedule now, but when I did and something came to me I would always ask God to keep it in my head for when I get home. As for now I still have chores but there always seems to be time in between each chore or the day.

Q 4) How do you handle Literacy Criticism?

A 4) I really never had any criticism, I think because when I do write me and my Husband edit every piece I write. I did however go through some writing schools and entered some writing contest they did give give me a lot of red marks and I read the noted and re-wrote the pieces and published them in my books.

Q 5) What do I like about Audio books?

A 5) I heard of them but never listened to any I always thought that would be great for people who travel in their car or for anyone with any eye problems, Then I became a writer I was asked to do an audio book I thought to myself that would be great.

Q6) What inspired you to start writing?

A 6) I started writing things down when I was a kid I was mentally ill with Epilepsy, I didn’t know about this until I got better I read a story about Epilepsy, it said Epileptics write things down, so when they would have a seizure, it would wipe information out just like a bad chip or incomplete chip. I looked around all my things and found the writings that are in my book.

Q7) What in your opinion, are the most important elements of good writing?

A 7) Know your subject, have you ever heard the line? Write what you know this very true. Figure out the ending to your story first, then think of the title and then the beginning of your story, the rest will fill itself in. When you do all of this work, look up to see if this would be a good subject to publish see if anyone would like to read your work. I wasn’t sure so what I did I let chosen people to read my pieces and to tell me not what you think how did you feel afterwards.

Q8) What is your work schedule work schedule like when you are writing?

A 8) Very coming because when I do write it is when I would have time between chores, mostly at the end of the day. If there is some reason I had to stop I would write down where I left off but this usually doesn’t happen, when I start to write I always keep going to the finish line.

Q9) What is the significance of the title “The Many Wonders Of Deanie?”

A 9) The name Deanie is because it is shortened from my birth name that is what I was always called by my family, and The Many Wonders Of is because every writing is of different subjects none are the same, like I am bouncing around. Epileptics would write about everything they see and wonder.

Q10) What did you want to be when you grew up?

A 10) When I was young and still mentally ill I never knew if I was going to have a chance to grow up, so I never really had any direction but with all of my jobs I did have they never amounted to much, however when I discovered with every job I had I kept writing but I still didn’t think about being an author until my husband said why don’t you finish your writings? They are really very good!

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Interview with author Bernadine Ziegler

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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