Writer Mom Life Episode 56: MJ McGriff and Seeing Yourself In Your Genre

Why is it important to see people like you succeed? To know it’s possible! This interview with SFF author and single mom of two MJ McGriff touches on that and related subjects, like diversity in characters and authors and finding your tribe. In 20 years, what an awesome world she’ll have helped create for her girls!

In this episode, MJ and Daphne talk about:

• How she decided to become an indie author
• Her short and long term definitions of success
• How her day job and her author job go hand-in-hand and how her day job has helped her writing career
• Her daily writing schedule with juggling two young children as a single mom and working full-time
• How our children can influence the kinds of characters we write
• MJ’s experience with diversity in the science fiction and fantasy genres and how indie publishing is helping more diverse authors publish
• The importance of finding your tribe of people who are in the same spot along their author journey as you
• Why her long term success goal is to cut down to 50% on her day job vs fully quit the day job
• What’s next for MJ!