HFC Summer Series with AlzAuthors and Ruth Stevens, Author of Stage Seven, a Novel
Welcome to the first in our 2022 Summer Series with HFC. We kicked off this season on June 14th with Ruth Stevens’ novel, Stage Seven. Christy Byrne Yates moderated.
About Ruth Stevens
Ruth Stevens believes in stories that make you laugh and cry. She says, “I like to write about the topics that worry me the most. Since I worry about a great many things, there is never a shortage of material. A resident of Torrance, California, Ruth is a former public relations professional (in New York and Los Angeles) and proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America and Women’s Fiction Writers Association.
Ruth has been writing professionally for her entire career—including hundreds of articles for magazines, newspapers, and journals—but creative writing is her passion. She took up this endeavor full-time after quitting her day job in 2017. At last count, she’s written two plays and three novels. In her spare time, she enjoys travel, hiking, wine tasting, hip hop, Broadway musicals, movies, leading a book club, and visiting her grandsons in Manhattan. Stage Seven is her first novel.
About Christy Byrne Yates
Christy is the mother of two – now adult – children. She is an expert in navigating the challenges and opportunities in life including living in the “Sandwich Generation” (those raising children who are also caring for an aging parent), special needs education, and parenting. She incorporates meditation, mindfulness practices and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) into her work along with other evidence-based practices to support growth, goal achievement and a pathway to living your best life now. In California she is a Licensed Educational Psychologist (LEP), an author, speaker, and coach. She is the author of Building a Legacy of Love: Thriving in the Sandwich Generation available on Amazon.
After the Podcast
Read Ruth’s AlzAuthors post: Ruth Stevens Pens Dementia Tale as a Play and a Novel: Stage Seven
Purchase Stage Seven on Amazon
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Book Mentions
The Forgetting, David Shenk, available on Amazon
Connect with Ruth
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