Featured Interview With Sherilyn Powers
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in Canada, pretty much all across the country and settled in the frozen north. I have 1 1/2 dogs (one mine, one inherited from my daughter) and a large collection of magpies that live in the trees outside my house. The magpies wouldn’t really count as pets but they like to play with my dogs and they are quite entertaining so I have adopted them.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I believe it was just before the ark set sail. I was quite young then. I love words, and languages, and communicating. I started writing as long ago as I can remember. I have poetry, songs and short stories from my early teens, two fiction manuscripts (one fantasy and one romance) that may never see the light of day and to this day I write constantly. My writing got me through a lot… I passed Grade 9 English only by submitting to the teacher all of my previous writings. I told him I couldn’t just write whatever he asked for on demand and he bought it!
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Authors… oh man, Terry Pratchett is brilliant – Tolkien on hallucinogens. Anne McCaffrey, Robert Jordan, Geoffry Hodson, Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas, and so many more!
My inspiration comes from everyone and everything. I get my curiosity from my mother (as well as a million allergy genes).
Tell us a little about your latest book?
“I’m Not Crazy… I’m Allergic!” – a look at the relationship between allergies and depression, and a discovery that sometimes there are many more reactions to allergens or sensitivities than are commonly accepted by the medical profession.
What would you do if, after 50 years of antidepressants, you discovered the reason for your constant depression and suicidal tendencies, and not only that but you could control it with diet and desensitization?
This is the journey of a woman that had been dealing with “mental illness” all her life and how we stumbled on the fact that most of her depression, panic attacks and other strange inexplicable mental and emotional (and even some physical) symptoms could not only be explained by exposure to certain foods or environmental triggers but also consistently replicated by that exposure.
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