Ask the Author: Amy Jo Hawkins
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Amy Jo Hawkins
I created a playlist called "Just Listen." It is full of relaxing songs, instrumental music and scores from some of my favorite movies. Listening to the hours of inspirational music allows me to do my best work.
Amy Jo Hawkins
That I have an opportunity to impact others. That my words might influence someone to find hope and believe in defying odds.
Amy Jo Hawkins
Marketing for my first book, "It Doesn't Have to be That Way" and letting ideas flow for the follow-up book.
Amy Jo Hawkins
I started journaling at a very young age. I had always thought that maybe some day, someone would find my journal and finally understand me. But, as I've learned this past year, I was the one that was supposed to figure out or understand me; for me to hear my own voice.
Amy Jo Hawkins
Sitting in church one Sunday morning about 3 years ago, I felt a very prominent voice telling me to write our story. While I questioned it often, the story of defying odds and overcoming addiction, brokenness and divorce needed to be told to a world that is desperately in need of hope.
Amy Jo Hawkins
Keep a pen and paper handy, or a notepad app on your phone, at all times. You never know when an idea is going to pop (or bloom as I like to call it) in your mind.
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