A.R. Grosjean

I had the luxury to meet a new author with several books. Here is her interview. Please enjoy and be sure to check out her books, available on Amazon. Thank you!   I see you wrote a memoir. What drove you to write it? A newly published author in 2008, I prioritized increasing my visibility while adding to my credibility by binge-writing my way out of obscurity. Having grown up during the Sixties, I drew upon those experiences to write my first memoir, “A Mini Tribute to Twiggy,” and submitted it for publication at The Sixties Official Site . When the webmaster graciously invited me to write more and offered to set up my own page there, I eagerly accepted and turned out a memoir every week for approximately two years, contributing 100 in total. Encouraged by a friend to compile them into a Nonfiction Memoir, I did so primarily to celebrate the spirit of my father, the inspiration behind many of these memoirs.   When did you begin writing? What was the force behind it? By ...

  I like this picture because it does show everything in one picture. The tools I use, laptop, tablet, and my phone. I don't know what I'd do without them lol. Inspiration comes in many forms. People, places, things, actions, a memory......And they all inspire me to write stories. I've always been able to see things within objects. For instance, when you look at a floor made with dots and blobs. If you stare at them long enough, you begin to see things forming. I see faces a lot of the times lol. Once I saw a frog lol. It was funny because the person who painted the wall wasn't trying to make one. He had just thrown paint on the wall and used a sponge to create patterns. One pattern looked like a frog to me. Once I pointed it out, after laughing, everyone else saw it. Now it's the frog room lol. I haven't been back to that place in years but I can imagine people are still talking about it lol. I don't know if they still are but I'd like to think so. Grow...

I can speak from experience that having support from your loved ones, can be difficult to get or easy to achieve, depending on your own family. Growing up, I was part of that first list. I heard multiple times that I wasn't going to succeed and if I did get a book published, I wouldn't make any money with it. It tore me apart hearing my own mother saying these things. And she refused to read anything I wrote, so she didn't even know if I was good or not. She didn't care because all she wanted was to see me fail. And then I met my husband, and he went on the second list. The moment he heard I wanted to be a writer and publish my stories, he supported me so fast it gave me whiplash. Yeah, that was fast lol. He encouraged me to write instead of watching TV. And when my first book was accepted by a publisher, he couldn't wait to brag about it. He showed me how someone loves someone, how they show support and I felt like I won first place in a contest. Actually, the feel...

Here's an interesting fact about my family, on my father's side........ My oldest sister had to create our family tree as a class assignment in high school. I wasn't with her when she discovered this information and my grandmother isn't alive to ask her about it so I'm not sure how she knew it, but during the investigation of our family tree, my sister learned that we are related to Samuel Morse. You know, the man who created the morse code? I thought it was the coolest thing because this guy (pictured above) was a writer too. I believe this is where I got it from lol. On both sides of my family, there is a mix of heritages arranging from English, Irish, German, Swedish, and something else I can never remember. My new son-in-law's sister did one of those DNA things and she learned that she was 5% black. They are Mexican mostly. She has the same parents as my son-in-law, which means he would have the same DNA markings as she would. Or at least be close. Now my da...