Pump Up Your Book Chats with Tamara Elizabeth

Tamara Elizabeth Tamara Elizabeth is a speaker, author, self love coach, radio host, a master motivator of women in transition, conductress of motivational seminars, professional photographer, small space designer, lover of social media, mother of 5, and a fabulously loveable woman after her first 50 years.  She is determined to create a revolution of women.

Tamara started her life over at fifty and believes that if she can do it, any woman can.  That’s when she decided to take her experiences and help others with her latest book, Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It! – Discovering My Loveable Me.

I have 4 greatest accomplishments in my life – my 4 grown children.  My next greatest joy is my step son that I have had the honor of nurturing for the past 7 years.

Visit her website at www.moximize.me.

Follow her on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Moximize_Me and Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/moximize.

Q: Thank you for this interview, Tamara. Can you tell us why you wrote your book?

I didn’t start out with the intention of writing a book. I was writing essays about my life as a healing process to journeying through a major transition in my life. As each essay was completed a natural reflective question developed and seemed to naturally want to be answered by me. I thought that if these stories could be a therapeutic tool for me then possibly they could help other women traveling through their own personal transitions. My mentor saw a pattern and encouraged me to create a workbook and see it through to publication. The more I thought about the possibility, the more I dreamed it a reality and the more excited I became about the possibility. This has been a fabulous project and a goal that I never thought would materialize. I am now just basking in the glory of a small dream realized.

Fabulously Fifty Q: Which part of the book was the hardest to write?

The writing of this book was emotional but cathartic. What was the hardest part of the process was reading the book again once it was in print. It stirred such deep emotions and old wounds. But what was so calming was that I realized this had all happened to me but didn’t affect me anymore. I have shaken hands with all these demons and now can move forward exploring what the universe has to offer me with a pretty clear slate and a file folder full of lessons.

Q: Do you remember when the writing bug hit?

I was raised in a very strict household. I was instructed to “be seen BUT not heard,” “To only speak when spoken to”, and ONLY say what might be of interest to others, not wasting their precious time with drivel. So I wrote to tell my imaginary friend what I needed to say. As a mother, I wrote children’s stories because I had the best seeds for stories right in my back yard. My favorite thing was to take jokes and write them into stories fit or children and teens. Now I write to motivate and inspire. I write so I can be heard not necessarily seen.

Q: Besides books, what else do you write?  Do you write for publications?

I write for my blog @ http://moximize.me and I am a contributing writer for LivingBetterat50, SelfGrowth, DivineCaroline, fabulously40 & beyond and I am the Canadian Global correspondent to EnlightendLifeLovers

Q: Do you have a writing tip you’d like to share?

Write from your heart and soul a follow the “bar stool test” -write, as you would tell your story to the person who is sitting next to you at the bar. Not to worry about the formalities of correct writing – just write the streams of thoughts that flow from your inner being, it can all be tweaked into a more formal way later if so desired. When you write to pass the barstool test you reach the masses and you relate better to the niche you are destined to write for.

Q: Where’s your favorite place to write at home?

Sitting on my couch with my laptop, looking out my picture window at the harbor. I watch the ferries travel back and forth between this harbor and the mainland and wonder what the lives of the passengers are like. Since I have ridden these large vessels many times I can just envision the dram they hold.

Q: What do you do to get away from it all?

Go hiking with my two Bichon Frises – Buddy and Jackson. I always take a camera and fuel my creative fires with the taking of photos. I take pictures of absolutely everything – just in case it can be framed a perfect piece of art for a gift. I find inspiration in looking at life through a lens. I have been told that I can see things most people would just pass by.

Q: What is the most frustrating part of being an author?

Unending Solitude. I love being by myself but as a writer you tend to squirrel away and let your thoughts and creativity flow to you in the quiet confounds of your space wherever that may be. With the rising need for promotion via the Internet, it is even harder to get out and meet people because even your book tour is now viral. But that is only a minor frustration. It would never blow out the flame of my creativity.

Q: What is the most rewarding?

Right now for me it is the knowledge that I formed a goal, persevered and achieved it! I survived the tough transition I was gong through by placing my eyes on a carrot and moving forward one tiny step at time. I made it. Everything else that happens with this book is now gravy. I also have had the amazing experience for working with your company on this VBT. I am learning so much and having so much fun that publishing the book was one thrill but be part of this tour is another.

Q: If you had one wish, what would that be?

That my book help at least one women to get “unstuck” from a challenging transition and move slowly forward until her dreams are realized. Then I will know that my journey was traveled with more than one purpose.

Q: Your book has just been awarded a Pulitzer.  Who would you thank?

I would thank every single person who has crossed my journey and mad my life possible. It I hadn’t experienced these people and situations I would not have the lesson to pass onto others so as to make their passage on their own journey a bit smoother sailing. I write from life experience – they create the stage.

Q: Thank you so much for this interview, Tamara.  Do you have any final words?

With the increasing ease to get published today, every budding author ha something of value to share with the world and the world is open and waiting to embrace your gift. So just do it! Publish your works and share your expertise no matter what it is with the world. Eventually this planet and its people will be a better place for doing so – one book at a time.


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