#Audiobook ~ No Names to Be Given by Julia Brewer Daily

Book Title:  No Names to Be Given by Julia Brewer Daily
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +)  
Genre: Vintage Women’s Fiction
Publisher:  Admission Press Inc
Release date:   08/2021
Content Rating:  PG + M. No bad language, but mature subjects like suicide and a rape scene. These are both mild and not explicit. Fade to black kind of scenes. 

“An insightful and sympathetic view offered into the lives of those who were adopted and those who adopted them.” Pam Johnson, author of Justice for Ella.

“A novel worthy of a Lifetime movie adaptation.” Jess Hagemann, author of Headcheese.
“Readers can expect deep knowledge of the world the characters inhabit.” Sara Kocek, author of Promise Me Something.

“I found myself thinking about Becca, Sandy, and Faith frequently as I went about my day—I was always excited to sit down and find out what happened next.” Sarah Welch, author of Austin Brown Dogs: The Shelter Dogs Who Rescue Us.

She has been a Communications Adjunct Professor at Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi, and Public Relations Director of the Mississippi Department of Education and Millsaps College, a liberal arts college in Jackson, MS.  

She was the founding director of the Greater Belhaven Market, a producers’ only market in a historic neighborhood in Jackson, and even shadowed Martha Stewart. 

As the Executive Director of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi (300 artisans from 19 states) which operates the Mississippi Craft Center, she wrote their stories to introduce them to the public.

Daily is an adopted child from a maternity home hospital in New Orleans. She searched and found her birth mother and through a DNA test, her birth father’s family, as well.  A lifelong southerner, she now resides on a ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas, with her husband Emmerson and Labrador
Retrievers, Memphis Belle and Texas Star.

Interview

When did the idea of the book occur to you? What prompted it?

No Names to Be Given is memoir-like in that I am an adopted child from a maternity home hospital in New Orleans. The story’s premise is about three women who meet in a maternity home hospital in New Orleans to relinquish their babies for adoption in 1966. I have carried this story in my mind for 40 years and just this year completed the manuscript.

What is your editing process like?

 I edit at the end of each chapter. Then, I have a developmental editor, copyeditor, and line/proof editor to create a clean manuscript.

 What is your favorite part of writing?

 I enjoy writer’s retreats to take a craft class in the morning with my fellow writers and have the entire afternoon and night to reach my word count goals. Also, being away from home allows me the gift of uninterrupted time without preparing meals or walking the dogs, and I can accomplish a lot in a small window of time.

Do you have a routine when you write?

I like to write mid-morning after a 20-mile bike ride. My muscles are tired, but my mind is churning with new ideas because I listen to audiobooks while pedaling furiously. Listening to others’ work always brings a childhood memory to my mind I can incorporate into the novel or discover a way to correct a problem in the mushy middle of the story I am writing.

What is your process when creating a character?

 I begin a story by “seeing” the main protagonist in my mind. In fact, I write with the story playing in my thoughts like a movie on a big screen. First, I can visualize the characters and setting. Then, once I know how they look, they begin to interact with each other, and the dialogue of how they might speak plays in my head like a recording.

What do you want readers to know about your book?

This book has been a long time coming. Because a thread of my own life is woven into the fiction, it is personal to me. I hope the characters linger in readers’ minds long after they close the book. Millions of people have adoption in their immediate families. I hope this story is their story and sparks a conversation about the complex topic of adoption for all involved.

Thanks so much for this interview. I feel your readers know you and your writing style a little better now.

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