Author Jackie Townsend: 5 Things You Need to Know to Become a Great Author

Your voice doesn’t just exist. It needs to be found, honed, and nurtured. You’re not going to find your voice in your first book, because you’ve yet to develop your platform. It’s only after this book is out there in the world, as you better define your audience and engage with them more, after you begin to complement your books with longer essays, blogs, and short stories, only then does your voice begin to find its way into your second and even third books.

As part of my interview series on the five things you need to know to become a great author, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jackie Townsend.

Jackie Townsend is the author of three novels that delve deep into themes of displacement and crossing borders, including The Absence of Evelyn and Imperfect Pairings, both of which won her finalist and winner titles at the Next Generation Indie and Indie Excellence Awards. Her fourth novel, Riding High in April, will be out August, 2021. Jackie is a native of Southern California who lived for…