Ep. 530 Nurse Turned Award-Winning Author with Helen Starbuck (@HelenSStarbuck)

Published: July 4, 2022, 4:43 p.m.

\u201cBeta readers and editors are worth their weight in gold.\u201d \u2013 Helen Starbuck

Today\u2019s featured award-winning author is a third-generation Colorado native, former OR nurse, editor, and speaker, Helen Starbuck. Helen and I have a fun chat about her award-winning book series, \u201cAn Annie Collins Mystery\u201d, how her career as an operating room nurse translated into her current career as a writer, and more!!!

 

Key Things You\u2019ll Learn:

How she became a writer

How Helen\u2019s work as a nurse affects her writing

Why great books need good editors and honest beta readers

Why you must be as accurate as possible as an author no matter what genre you write for

The mindset to have about receiving bad book reviews

Why she does not get free coffee.

 

Helen\u2019s Site: https://www.helenstarbuck.com/

Helen\u2019s Books: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B076KPPQ52?_encoding=UTF8&node=283155&offset=0&pageSize=12&searchAlias=stripbooks&sort=date-desc-rank&page=1&langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader

 

The opening track is titled "Pilot Wings Remix" by Rukunetsu (aka Project R). Click on the following link to listen and cop the full tune. https://soundcloud.com/rukunetsu/pilotwings-4-results

 

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