Ten Minutes of Tips With Author Maggie Smith

In this segment, our featured author answers questions about what they’re reading, books they like, tips on how to find good books, books that influenced their writing, tips on writing craft and what’s next for them in their writing and reading.

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In a career that’s included work as a journalist, a psychologist, and the founder of a national art consulting company, Maggie Smith now adds novelist to her resume with the publication of her debut, Truth and Other Lies. In addition to her writing, Maggie hosts the weekly podcast Hear Us Roar, where she interviews debut authors about their novel and their path to publication and blogs monthly for Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers.

A board member of the Chicago Writer’s Association, she’s Managing Editor of their Write City Magazine, and coordinator of Book Nook, which highlights Chicago-area independent bookstores. Her short story, The Devil You Know, was published in the 2018 Anthology False Faces: Twenty Stories About the Masks We Wear.