216: Wendy Adair - Author of The Broken Hallelujah

The podcast this week features Wendy Adair (The Broken Hallelujah, indie published, October 2022). Once Wendy had her core idea, snippets of facts as well as sources seemed to appear serendipitously, including the old trunk of a loved one. And we delve into genre – how she set out to write a women’s fiction novel that morphed into another often overlooked genre as well, what it was like to discover a new readership to market to, and the freedom and creativity she’s found in publishing her own work. And if you’ve been on the fence about audiobooks, her experience with that medium may help you decide to take the plunge. Wendy Adair is a former public relations professional who worked in academia and upon retirement, became a published author.  Her debut women’s fiction novel received the 2023 IPPY Bronze Medal for Wartime Fiction and she was a finalist for both the 2023 International Book Award and the Page Turner Award. She is currently at work on a trilogy of cozy mysteries set in a college town featuring a multi-generational family of women amateur sleuths. To learn more about Wendy, click here.