I have an interview with Marya Hornbacher scheduled for sometime in July. And yes, it’s for this blog. I’m really quite beside myself. Marya, if you’re reading this…. hi.
For those who don’t know who Marya Hornbacher is, she’s an award-winning author and generally awesome person. I know because I’ve met her. She autographed my book and everything! (Thanks again, Marya!) You can find her website here.
She has written two amazing autobiographies (Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia and Madness: A Bipolar Life)about her struggles with an eating disorder and rapid-cycle Bipolar 1 (in that order, respectively) along with fiction best-seller The Center of Winter, Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the Twelve Steps and Waiting: A Non-Believer’s Higher Power. (As this is a faith-based blog, I can’t endorse the concept behind that last one, but in the spirit of endorsing good writing, I can attest that this book, along with her others, are written brilliantly.)
Before I set the interview questions in stone, I wanted to get some feedback from my readers. You’re who the interview is for, and I want to make sure that I’m asking questions that you want to know the answer to! What would you like to know about Marya? Is there anything in any of her books that you want us to discuss, or is there a relevant topic you feel hasn’t been covered yet?
To submit interview questions, please use the comment section below or email me at amber.hiddlestoned@gmail.com. You can also submit questions via Twitter to @anxietybug88.
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OMG I’m so jealous you get to meet Marya Hornbacher!!!!!! X
Oh, it’s not like that! I have met her twice before, but this is going to be an email interview. She’s super awesome though. It’s weird because I’m taller than her, and I’m pretty short. lol
What an amazing opportunity! I cannot wait to read your interview. I have read Wasted and Madness, and I have The Center of Winter on my Nook to be read. She is an incredible writer. I am constantly blown away be her descriptiveness and ability to transport you the where she is and what she is feeling. Reading her two memoirs has helped me a great deal in understanding two friends who are bipolar and fighting addictions.
That’s awesome! Yeah, she’s a cool cucumber. I don’t know how she does it. It amazes me what she’s been through, and she still manages to get out of bed in the morning. Please, if you have any interview questions you’d like included, submit them in the comments or to my email! It would be very helpful to me! 🙂