Nancy Christie has been living the writing life for more years than she can remember. Her writing background, like so many other writers, has been a hodgepodge of freelance work (newspaper, magazine, and corporate clients), short stories, and fiction and nonfiction books. And again, like so many other writers, she finds it challenging to balance income-producing work with what she really wants to write, which right now are the books in her Midlife Moxie Novel Series and more short stories for her fourth collection, The Language of Love, due out in 2025.

In her early years, she juggled motherhood and writing, then much later, caregiving and writing. And now, it’s book marketing—and writing. The central through line for her is always fiction writing—whether she only gets half an hour a day or can manage an entire weekend.

As for her novel series, she sees herself as the poster child for midlife reinvention. It wasn’t until she was forty that she had her first short story published, and she was fifty when her first book was published. Ten years later, her first short fiction collection came out and now, at the tender age of sixty-nine, she’s released her first novel, Reinventing Rita. And she plans to continue living this writing life as long as she can.

You can learn more about Nancy on her website, www.nancychristie.com, where you can find links to her books, her Living the Writing Life podcast, and her Midlife Moxie Novel Series on YouTube and sign up for her newsletters. Follow her on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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A little about today's host-

Author and musical composer Kathleen Basi is mother to three boys and one chromosomally-gifted daughter. Her debut novel, A SONG FOR THE ROAD, follows a musician on an unconventional road trip. Bestselling author Kerry Anne King writes, “In a novel filled with music, heartbreak, and surprising laughter, Basi takes us on a journey that encompasses both unimaginable loss and the powerful resilience of the human heart.”

Meaty, earnest, occasionally humorous, and ultimately uplifting, Kathleen’s fiction highlights the best within ourselves and each other. She writes monthly reflections on life, writing and beauty on her newsletter. Subscribe at https://kathleenbasi.substack.com/.

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