61: YOU Are Worth Embracing Exactly As You Are - Erin Soderberg Downing Middle Grade Author Interview
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What happens when a group of extended family members who barely know each other spend a summer together on an island? Old family secrets arise. Is there a way to bridge old hurts and find ways to communicate? Can everyone learn that they are wonderful individuals just the way they are?
Find middle grade author Erin Soderberg Downing
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What Happened Then by Erin Soderberg Downing https://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-Then-Soderberg-Downing/dp/1546124985/
Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd
Chapters
00:00 Meet middle grade author Erin Soderberg Downing
04:05 What is What Happened Then by Erin Soderberg Downing about?
09:00 The audiobook for What Happened Then with exceptional narration
10:27 Powerful quotes from What Happened Then “Don’t Apologize because…”
The qualities you already have are worth embracing
15:45 How to be yourself?
25:10 Building characters
28:23 Having those conversations is the only way to break down barriers. The importance of communication
35:08 A book full of emotions and hard topics that also includes lightness and humor
39:17 What is next for author Erin Soderberg Downing?
42:23 Erin’s book recommendation
62 episodes