{"id":15121,"date":"2015-11-28T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/?p=15121"},"modified":"2015-11-27T18:22:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:52:36","slug":"interview-with-donna-maguire-author-of-the-silly-willy-winston-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/interview-with-donna-maguire-author-of-the-silly-willy-winston-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Donna Maguire, Author of The Silly Willy Winston Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"BookBuzzr - Interview with Donna Maguire\" title=\"BookBuzzr - Interview with Donna Maguire\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled.png 640w, https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an effort to understand Children\u2019s Book Authors, their inspirations, their writing process, their needs, their problems,\u2026 we reached out to Donna Maguire, author of the Silly Willy Winston series who after close to 40 years in the advertising business Donna left it behind to care for her grand niece and nephew in Nevada some years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Donna believes that the love for reading is more nurture than nature and reads to her grand children often. It was this reading that led her to pursue her life-long passion of writing children&#8217;s books. A collection of 4 books and fifth in the making, Donna joined me for my first ever video interview. I\u2019m so exited it turned out so well. :)<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v_0v8AKq4vs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In the interview Donna answers my questions about &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>her journey to becoming an author<\/li>\n<li>her inspirations, her muse, her learnings<\/li>\n<li>the challenges she has faced and what she did about them<\/li>\n<li>marketing activities she has done and her learnings<\/li>\n<li>why she has her own online store for her books &amp;\u00a0her favourite tools for book marketing<\/li>\n<li>her plans for the next book launch and the Silly Willy Winston Review Club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can see all of Donna\u2019s books and read more about her at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillywillywinston.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.sillywillywinston.com<\/a>. Also connect with her on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DmmSilly\" target=\"_blank\">@DmmSilly<\/a> and on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillywillywinston\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/secure.bookbuzzr.com\/bbflipper\/embed.php?content_id=21496&#038;widgetwidth=320&#038;widgetheight=240&#038;widgetbgColor=e87728\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/secure.bookbuzzr.com\/bbflipper\/embed.php?content_id=21441&#038;widgetwidth=320&#038;widgetheight=240&#038;widgetbgColor=27c0bf\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/secure.bookbuzzr.com\/bbflipper\/embed.php?content_id=21392&#038;widgetwidth=320&#038;widgetheight=240&#038;widgetbgColor=7fc225\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/secure.bookbuzzr.com\/bbflipper\/embed.php?content_id=21391&#038;widgetwidth=320&#038;widgetheight=240&#038;widgetbgColor=4393cd\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to understand Children\u2019s Book Authors, their inspirations, their writing process, their needs, their problems,\u2026 we reached out to Donna Maguire, author of the Silly Willy Winston series who after close to 40 years in the advertising business Donna left it behind to care for her grand niece and nephew in Nevada some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[1,898,897],"class_list":["post-15121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-useful-interviews","tag-author-interviews","tag-childrens-authors","tag-video-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}