Samantha Atzeni On The 5 Things You Need To Be A Successful Author or Writer

Read. All. The. Things. Seriously, read everything you can find. Read the classics, read the trash, read the literary canon, read the in-between titles.

Some writers and authors have a knack for using language that can really move people. Some writers and authors have been able to influence millions with their words alone. What does it take to become an effective and successful author or writer?

In this interview series, called “5 Things You Need To Be A Successful Author or Writer” we are talking to successful authors and writers who can share lessons from their experiences. As part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Samantha Atzeni. Samantha Atzeni (she/they) is a multi-genre, award-winning writer of prose, comics, plays, and academic scholarship of ethnography, sequential art studies, and trauma theory. Along with comic writer Adam Wilson, Samantha Atzeni is the co-founder of Read Furiously Publishing and serves as its editorial director and its head of acquisitions. Through Read Furiously, Samantha Atzeni is proud to publish great books, be a part of an amazing independent literary community, and participate in literary activism.