John Winn Miller On 5 Things You Need to Know to Become a Great Author

You can do it! It took me nearly three decades to believe I could write a novel. I knew how to write news and tell a dramatic story. But I never thought I had that special something it takes to write a compelling novel.

As part of my interview series, I had the pleasure of interviewing John Winn Miller. John is an award-winning investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, editor, newspaper publisher, screenwriter, movie producer, and novelist. The Lexington, Ky., native was a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press and Wall Street Journal/Europe based in Rome, Italy; a reporter and editor at the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader; executive editor of the Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.) and the Tallahassee Democrat; and was publisher of The Olympian in Olympia, WA., and The Concord (N.H.) Monitor. He also helped produce four independent feature films: “Hitting the Cycle” with Bruce Dern; “Armed Response”; “Band of Robbers,” written and directed by Adam and Aaron Nee, and “Ghost in the Family.” Miller and his wife Margo live in Lexington. Their daughter Allison Miller is an actress-screenwriter-director currently starring in the ABC series “A Million Little Things.”