Interview with Mrs. Shelby Hailstone Law

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  I have been working on something special for this blog post. I attended the Independent Book Fair in Marietta, Georgia, a few months ago. This was my first time going. I walked to many tables and networked like crazy. I even broke my budget for books. Lesson learned: expect to spend money, as if I didn’t know this already.   While at this event, I met this young woman (an author, wife, and mother), Mrs. Shelby Hailstone Law, who has written many books: the Scaleshifter Series, Lady Thief, Birthright Unknown, and Death Flirts Back, which I am currently reading.   When she spoke about being on the spectrum during a seminar on writing fantasy, her next book’s main character is on the spectrum. I knew that I had to reach out to her. Much to my luck, she graciously agreed to let me interview her for this blog post.   Death Flirts Back is about a woman, Abigail, whose family is watched by reapers. For years, Abigail has had reapers follow her but never talk, unti...
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Book Recommendations

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Hello Everyone!


I hope everyone is doing well. To be honest with you, my schedule has been all over the place lately so this time I'm providing you with recommendations for books that I have found written by people on the spectrum.

As a writer, I wanted to see who else on the spectrum is writing about autism. I have heard of a few people such as John Elder Robison with his book Look Me in the Eye, along with Dr. Temple Grandin who wrote multiple books on autism and animal rights as well as being a public speaker. Below I posted two of her books. I have a copy of her Thinking in Pictures.

After doing some googling I was pleased to find even more books on autism written by authors that are on the spectrum themselves. I absolutely love that there are so many out there, and hope that one day mine will be out there as well. There can never be too many books on autism, and every writer is going to have their own thoughts and experiences with the autistic spectrum.


As for me, currently, I'm reading But You Don’t Look Autistic At All by Bianca Toeps and I am enjoying it.


I also found an entire list! I may not get around to reading them all, at least not at once, but I will definitely attempt to read them because one is never done learning! Here is a link to the list of books that I found:

https://aheartforallstudents.com/books-about-autism-by-autistic-authors/#30-best-books-about-autism-by-autistic-authors

I do have a tendency to start reading a book while in the middle of reading another. I am also reading Deborah Harkness's A Discovery of Witches and Markus Zusak's The Book Thief in German.

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