An editor herself, Debbie interviews her husband, Dr. Sam Harrington, about writing a book and about the experience of becoming a first-time author. If A BOOK is on your bucket list, don't miss this episode.
Debbie chats with her husband, Sam Harrington, about the experience of writing a book and about being a first-time author. Yes, writing a book was on Sam's bucket list but he never seriously considered it until their gap year when he had the time and mental space to focus on it.
A practicing physician in D.C. for 31 years, he realized he had deep knowledge and a strong point of view about how the elderly should make decisions at the end of life. The result is AT PEACE: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life (Hachette 2018). Debbie is a nonfiction writing coach and editor and she asks Sam the tough questions about writing his book.
This episode will be of interest to anyone who has A BOOK on their bucket list - lots of practical tips and truth-telling.
Mentioned in the episode:
Gap Year After Sixty: Debbie and Sam's gap year blog (where the book began)
AT PEACE: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life by Samuel Harrington (Hachette 2018)
Read the Introduction to Sam's book
Interview: The inside story: from stomach doctor to first-time author by Debbie Weil
Sam's twitter: @gapyearsam
Other end-of-life books
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Knocking on Heaven's Door by Katy Butler
How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland
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Show creator and host: Debbie Weil
Producer/editor: Julie-Roxane Krikorian
Music by Manuel Senfft
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