Catherine Devore Johnson On The 5 Things You Need to Become a Great Author

…Try to write regularly (daily, weekly, whatever works with your life), and don’t get discouraged if you can’t always stick to your schedule.

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 Catherine Devore Johnson. Catherine Devore Johnson was born in Chicago and raised in Texas, with a short sojourn on the East Coast for college. A former attorney, she now works as a writer and editor for a children’s hospital in Houston, Texas. When she isn’t writing or haunting one of her favorite coffee houses (or, even better, writing in one of her favorite coffee houses), Catherine loves spending time with her husband and two children.

Thank you so much for joining us! Can you share a story about what brought you to this particular career path?

It is a pleasure and a privilege to be here! About twelve years ago, my husband brought home a course catalog with the newest continuing education program offerings at Rice University. He had flagged a one-day seminar for aspiring novelists. “You should do this,” he said. I’d been talking about writing a book for a while at that point and realized that maybe it was…