Author and Award-winning journalist, Marjorie Simmins talks about her latest book, In Search of Puffins

If you enjoy learning about an author's writing processes, how they come up with their ideas, how they published, and other insights into the writing life, I invite you to take in some of the interviews we've done over the past few years on The Author Journey. This week's show featured Marjorie Simmins, a journalist, teacher, and author whose recent book, In Search of Puffins (Pottersfield Press 2025), was the third in a memoir trilogy that began with Coastal Lives (Pottersfield Press 2014), followed by Year of the Horse (Pottersfield Press 2016).

For those who are writing memoir, Marjorie's book, Memoir: Conversations & Craft (Pottersfield Press 2020) should be on your must read list.

I hope you enjoy this episode of The Author Journey and I invite you to subscribe to our channel where we broadcast live on Tuesdays at 4 pm Atlantic. If you are an author or industry expert and would like to be on the show, drop me a line at anne@ocpublishing.ca.

OC Publishing is a hybrid publishing company that mentors new authors and provides coaching, editing and publishing support from story idea and outline, through plot and character development to finished manuscript and publication. OC Publishing creates book development programs just right for each author’s personal journey. The genres published include women’s fiction, mystery/suspense, memoir, historical fiction, YA, middle grade, first chapter books and children’s picture books. Writing workshops and retreats are also offered regularly.

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