On the Artsy Raven, Gina Carroll speaks to us about what she gained from leaving a corporate law practice, how she started an authorship services company and the important themes of dementia and mental illness in her latest book, The Grandest Garden.

Gina Carroll began writing, blogging and speaking after leaving a large corporate law practice to raise her five children. Her first book, 24 Things You Can Do with Social Media to Help Get into College, helped students show their best selves and tell their own stories online. Dedicated to the belief that everyone has a story worth the writing and the telling, she wrote A Story That Matters: A Gratifying Way to Write About Your Life, to help aspiring writers get their life stories written, polished and shared. She founded Story House, LLC (formerly InspiredWordsmith), a writing, editing, and authorship services company based on the belief that the storytelling universe needs more authentic and diverse voices. She is most proud of the debut Story House publishing effort, Stories Are Medicine: Writing to Heal, An Anthology, a beautiful offering from a committed and brave group of Black women writers from Houston and beyond. Gina is a graduate of Stanford University and UCLA Law School, currently living in Houston, Texas. The Grandest Garden is her debut novel.

At time 18:00 she reads from latest novel, The Grandest Garden

Link to Gina’s Amazon book page: https://www.amazon.com/Grandest-Garden-Gina-L-Carroll/dp/1684632366/

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