S2E10-048 The Storytelling world of Jo Henwood
Finding Elara
Show Notes To Jo worldbuilding means transferring what is in your brain to the audience. Linking to the senses and clothing that reality a way the audience will underestand Research is so important as an aspect of worldbuilding. Loop of the information coming in and the story you share. Fairytails were subversive when they were written and inspired collaborative work for Jo Be the creative you want others to see Guest Bio Jo Henwood is an Accredited Storyteller with Australian Storytellers, accredited Professional Guide with the Institute of Australian Tour Guides, and has been President of...
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S2E9-047 Mindful Growth with Jo Henwood
Finding Elara
Show Notes ‘I’ve constructed the life that meets my dreams’ Wrong Bassinet at the Hospital When you have the choice to learn something practical or something you Loe then go for the one that you love. Oscure path leads to Niche Started Australian Fairytale Society in August 2013 She lives and out of the Rut life because of her different jobs. Jo is not scared of hard work Motivation is easy to find when you are inspired and interested Was pleased to learn Storytelling was a profession Don’t need to be original to be a storyteller, you take the scaffolding from something that...
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S2E8-046 Detecting fictional Worlds with Ian Hooper
Finding Elara
Guest Bio Ian Hooper grew up in the coastal town of Larne, Northern Ireland. He joined the Royal Air Force at age eighteen and worked initially as an aircraft technician before being commissioned as an Intelligence Officer. After serving for two decades, he and his Australian wife relocated to the southwest of Western Australia. In 2014, writing under the pen name of Ian Andrew, his first novel, A Time to Every Purpose, was released to critical acclaim, and in 2018, the first of his ‘Wright and Tran’ crime series, Face Value, won the Publishers Weekly Booklife prize for fiction. In...
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S2E7-045 Being Present with Ian Hooper
Finding Elara
Guest Bio Ian Hooper grew up in the coastal town of Larne, Northern Ireland. He joined the Royal Air Force at age eighteen and worked initially as an aircraft technician before being commissioned as an Intelligence Officer. After serving for two decades, he and his Australian wife relocated to the southwest of Western Australia. In 2014, writing under the pen name of Ian Andrew, his first novel, A Time to Every Purpose, was released to critical acclaim, and in 2018, the first of his ‘Wright and Tran’ crime series, Face Value, won the Publishers Weekly Booklife prize for fiction. In 2024,...
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S2E6-044 Peeking into the world of Kylah Elliott
Finding Elara
Guest Bio Hey! I’m Kylah, a book editor and author. I’ve been a writer from the moment I could do so, writing music, poems and books. I have no published works yet, but my debut novel is in the works! I’m a cat mum of two and love them with my entire heart and I’m an avid fantasy reader. Links Contact Kylah Elliott Instagram: Tiktok: Contact Dianna Website: Facebook: (DL Nix) Instagram: Tiktok: Contact the Team Finding Elara Facebook Group: Discord : BCP Website: BCP Instagram: Things you can enter Starting a treasure chest Give-away this...
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S2E5-043 Mindful Chat with Kylah Elliott
Finding Elara
Guest Bio Hey! I’m Kylah, a book editor and author. I’ve been a writer from the moment I could do so, writing music, poems and books. I have no published works yet, but my debut novel is in the works! I’m a cat mum of two and love them with my entire heart and I’m an avid fantasy reader. Links Contact Kylah Elliott Instagram: Tiktok: Contact Dianna Website: Facebook: (DL Nix) Instagram: Tiktok: Contact the Team Finding Elara Facebook Group: Discord : BCP Website: BCP Instagram: BCP Tik Tok: Things you can enter Starting a treasure chest...
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S2E4-042 WorldPlay with Allie McCormack
Finding Elara
Show Summary Guest Bio Allie McCormack is a disabled U.S. military veteran who has transformed her life-long dream of writing into reality. Having lived across the United States and spent memorable years in both Cairo, Egypt as an exchange student and Saudi Arabia working at a hospital in Riyadh, Allie now crafts her stories from the beautiful California wine country she calls home, accompanied by her family and two rescue cats. When not weaving tales of romance and adventure, Allie explores the intersection of art and technology through AI-generated artwork, finding new ways to express her...
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S2E3-041 with Allie McCormack and her mindful Tips
Finding Elara
Show Summary Guest Bio Allie McCormack is a disabled U.S. military veteran who has transformed her life-long dream of writing into reality. Having lived across the United States and spent memorable years in both Cairo, Egypt as an exchange student and Saudi Arabia working at a hospital in Riyadh, Allie now crafts her stories from the beautiful California wine country she calls home, accompanied by her family and two rescue cats. When not weaving tales of romance and adventure, Allie explores the intersection of art and technology through AI-generated artwork, finding new ways to express her...
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S2E2-040 Playing in the worlds of JA Duxbury
Finding Elara
Show Summary Guest Bio JA Duxbury has been writing since an early age, but only returned to 1998 after a hiatus of about 20 years. During the grey period, she worked full-time in places like records management and customer service. She spent a lot of that time writing procedural manuals, training documents and plans as well as creating Wikipedia type pages for her employer. Wver the last 10 years, she's been writing full-time getting all of her ideas on to paper and realising her dream of publishing books that people can lose themselves in. She has an extensive range of interest but her...
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S2E1-039 With JA Duxbury and her mindfulness tactics
Finding Elara
Show Summary Guest Bio JA Duxbury has been writing since an early age, but only returned to 1998 after a hiatus of about 20 years. During the grey period, she worked full-time in places like records management and customer service. She spent a lot of that time writing procedural manuals, training documents and plans as well as creating Wikipedia type pages for her employer. Wver the last 10 years, she's been writing full-time getting all of her ideas on to paper and realising her dream of publishing books that people can lose themselves in. She has an extensive range of interest but her...
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Ian Hooper grew up in the coastal town of Larne, Northern Ireland. He joined the Royal Air Force at age eighteen and worked initially as an aircraft technician before being commissioned as an Intelligence Officer. After serving for two decades, he and his Australian wife relocated to the southwest of Western Australia.
In 2014, writing under the pen name of Ian Andrew, his first novel, A Time to Every Purpose, was released to critical acclaim, and in 2018, the first of his ‘Wright and Tran’ crime series, Face Value, won the Publishers Weekly Booklife prize for fiction. In 2024, his poem, Just Enough won the Shore Lines writing for performance prize.
He is now the executive director of independent publisher, Leschenault Press and its imprint, The Book Reality Experience, as well as being an author, editor and ghost-writer. In addition, he is the co-founder of the international series of independent author book fairs. A fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, he holds qualifications in management, training, and learning design as well as a master’s in creative writing.
Living in rural Western Australia, surrounded by a resident mob of kangaroos, he is currently working on the next novel in the Wright & Tran series of detective stories.
Links
Contact Ian
Website: https://bookreality.com/project/ian-andrew-3/
Website: www.indieauthorbookfair.com
Things you can enter
Starting a treasure chest Give-away this season (By 04/06/2025)
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Calling for Authors to write about otherworldly Emergence (Before 07/07/2025)
Otherworldly emergence Novella: https://www.bushlandcastleproductions.com/emergence
Contact the Team
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Show Notes
- Ian was the go to for farewell poems and short stories.
- Started writing first story on the train
- Chose self publishing thinking only a few people would want his book.
- Ran training courses for others to self Pub
- Still provides assistance to other Authors through Book Publishing Experience
- Started writing first as Ian Andrew (first and middle name)
- Chose to have female leads in his detective series.
- Mindfulness means to be present
- Recommends App called ‘Balance’
- Reward to see Authors open their books for the first time.
- Reward self – Travel to Europe
- End of day Decompress = Bourbon and Coke.
- A part of Indie Author Book fair series.
- Discussed alternate perspectives of Indie publishers internationally.
- Superpower = Rewind button