Better Know An Author – Trish Stukbauer
Our weekly spotlight series on authors from around the world. This week we sat down with Trish Stukbauer!
Please give a brief introduction, including your name and where you are based
Author and editor Trish Stukbauer was pretty much born with a pencil in her hand. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, this northern transplant has called Lake Norman, NC home for the past two decades.
The recovering journalist is editor of Showtime magazine as well as the former editor of 9 real estate magazines across the country, and a newspaper veteran. She is Director of Communications for a church in Charlotte and owns a marketing company, ie marketing, whose clients range from an international business incubator to a globally recognized home décor retailer as well as advertising agencies on both coasts and several authors and celebrities. She is creative partner in REDDjobb Communications.
In her spare time, she loves spending time with family and friends and helping causes that are near and dear to her heart – including children and veterans.
What book or books have you published or are working on at the moment?
I’ve ghostwritten and edited quite a few. My first novel – My Guardian Dear –follows an intriguing scoundrel of a demon over the millennia as he searches for what will truly satisfy his soul. It’s currently with my editor and should be on bookshelves in the fall. I’ve co-edited two compilations by over a dozen authors – Change, Creativity, Curiosity and Hope in a Crisis Called Pandemic, which is available on Amazon, and Why Do We Love, which will be out soon.
What drives you to write?
I have to. There are characters in my head and words that simply demand to be committed to paper and won’t leave me alone until they are written.
Where can folks find you online and on social media?
On Instagram follow my new author account @wordsbytrish or my book account @myguardiandearbook
Landing page for the new book – https://myguardiandear.carrd.co
What is one piece of advice you would give to another author out there who might be struggling?
Write. Put real words on paper that genuinely capture what you are feeling and trying to convey. Even if they don’t form a cohesive whole. Even if you don’t like where they are going. Even if you are disappointed in your word choices. There are two main reasons for doing this. First, we are our own worst critics. If you overcome your inner skeptic and make the effort to put words on paper, you will be amazed by what you write. Second, even the worst writing contains gems if you are brave enough to look for them. You might look back on what you wrote in a week, or a month, or a year, and be blown away by a turn of phrase, a description, or a fragment of a plot that would have been lost if you had not captured it on paper.
What are some of your five-year goals with writing?
I hope to share my stories with others and that they find something meaningful in their pages. Whether it’s a line that makes them smile, solace and advice about something they are going through, or a character that lives on in their memory.
Final Thoughts?
The great books we all return to took on issues that were larger than life, but they told those epic tales of good and evil through the eyes and lives of characters who have since become iconic. Jay Gatsby. John Galt. Scarlett O’Hara. Harry Potter. Lestat. Paint your characters with all their grand ambitions and fatal flaws, and readers will see themselves in your characters.
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