BOOKS BY MY FRIENDS
The Glory Road: A Gospel Gypsy Life by ANITA GARNER
Welcome, Anita, to Books By My Friends! Congratulations on your new memoir. It sounds absolutely fascinating. Let’s begin.
JH: What’s the blurb for your book?
AG: Teenage honky-tonk singer marries a handsome country preacher. It's Saturday night versus Sunday morning, faith versus ambition with two little harmony-singing children fighting against the touring life.
JH: What inspired you to write The Glory Road: A Gospel Life?
AG: To help secure my parents' place in the history of American roots music and share details from a way of life that no longer exists.
JH: What one thing do you love most about writing?
AG: Getting to put down scenes in whole, not just a fragment, but a full picture with sound and visuals, all done in words on a page.
JH: What’s next for you in the way of writing/publishing?
AG: I'm working on another book which exists within the same universe as The Glory Road but follows even more characters into the 60s and 70s in the continuing Southern Migration to Southern California
JH: How can readers contact you?
AG:
www.anitagarner.com
BIO:
Anita Garner enjoyed a long career in radio, on the air in San Francisco and Los Angeles and as host of nationally syndicated shows, The Great Starship and Something Special. She was an announcer for decades for KCET-TV in Hollywood, PBS for Southern California. She won a John Steinbeck Short Story Award and a Marin County Arts Grant for her story, "Hank Williams Was A Friend Of Mine." Her work appears in Saturday Evening Post’s Great American Fiction anthology and her articles appear in Reminisce and Reminisce Extra magazines.
JH: Thanks for visiting BBMF today, Anita! Best wishes for success with The Glory Road! Please come back when your next project is ready to share.
All good things,
Joy
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