Write a book you want to keep talking about with Antoinette Truglio Martin
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Welcome Antoinette Truglio Martin to The TufFish Show, a place to help writers and aspiring authors get out of their own way to leave a legacy by telling the stories they want to share through writing their own books and confidently sharing them with others. The writing process can be tough and the business side can feel scary, but TufFish makes both feel smoother and achievable. Visit https://www.jennifermilius.com/tuffish to learn more.
\\nDuring our conversation, Antoinette shared so many nuggets such as writing a book you want to keep talking about after it\'s published, leveraging your listening skills to help your writing, and tips for world building.
\\nAntoinette Truglio Martin is a speech therapist and special education teacher by training but really wants to be a writer when she grows up. She has been collecting and writing stories forever. Over the years, Antoinette had been a regular columnist in local periodicals and had several essays featured in newsletters and literary reviews.
\\nAntoinette\'s popular children\\u2019s picture book, Famous Seaweed Soup was published in 1993 (Albert Whitman Co.). Antoinette\\u2019s memoir, Hug Everyone You Know: A Year of Community, Courage, and Cancer (She Writes Press 2017), chronicles her first year battling breast cancer as a wimpy patient. Becoming America\\u2019s Stories (Red Penguin Books) a middle-grade historical fiction series, debut in 2020. The award-winning first book, The Heart of Bakers and Artists, takes place in 1911 and follows nine-year-old Lily Taglia, an American-born child of Sicilian immigrants, coming of age in a crowded New York City three-room Lower East Side tenement. The Dreams of Singers and Sluggers picks up where The Heart of Bakers and Artists leaves off. Lily, her family and friends reach for their dreams as new Americans. Read Becoming America\\u2019s Food Stories where there are always good stories around good food.
\\nAntoinette proudly holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Stony Brook/Southampton University (2016). Be sure to stop by her website and blog, Stories Served Around The Table at https://antoinettetrugliomartin.com/ to read about past and present family adventures, book happenings, and life musings.
\\nVisit www.storiesserved.com
\\nBook purchase links:
\\nThe Heart of Bakers and Artists
\\nThe Dreams of Singers and Sluggers
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