Dawn Brotherton is an award-winning author and featured speaker at writing and publishing seminars. When it comes to exceptional writing, she draws on her experience as a colonel retired from the US Air Force as well as a softball coach and Girl Scout leader. Her variety of interests has led to a variety of genres including mystery, romance, young adult fantasy, middle-grade sports, picture books, and nonfiction. In this episode, Dawn talks about how the books she writes come from her life's experiences and how that way of generating a story can lead to a vein of gold for an author.