On today’s episode, we get to chat with Amy Hagstrom, a Contemporary Fiction author with her debut coming out this fall. Amy began her writing career as a travel writer and editor whose work appeared in US News, OutdoorsNW Magazine, Travel Oregon, and Huffington Post, among others, and for over a decade, she was lucky to travel all over the world, often with her children in tow. A lifelong outdoors enthusiast, she also served as a volunteer EMT with her local county search and rescue unit before launching her fiction writing career. After raising her three children in the Pacific Northwest, Amy traded the Cascade, Siskiyou, and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges for the Sierra Madre mountains, making her home in central Mexico with her wife.

Perhaps thanks to her love of travel, Amy finds much of her inspiration for her novels in a deeply entrenched sense of place, often considering the setting of each of her novels to be a character in itself. Amy's four completed manuscripts take place in treasured locations across the American West, ranging from the California Sierra to the Pacific Northwest's San Juan Islands, Wyoming's Tetons, and her longtime home in Southern Oregon. The many wildfires of this region inspired her second book deal in her novel currently titled, SMOKE SEASON, which comes out with Lake Union in 2024.

You can learn more about Amy on her website www.amyhagstrom.com and follow her on Instagram @amyhagstromwrites or on Threads under the same handle. Sign up for her newsletter on her website to stay up to date on her upcoming releases, and preorder THE WILD BETWEEN US on Amazon at www.amazon.com/dp/1662511485/ or support your local bookstore & this podcast by getting your copy of The Wild Between Us at https://bookshop.org/a/90599/9781662511486

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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