Always Write Author Interview Series #1: Robbie Cheadle

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Thank you to writer and blogger, Marsha Ingrao, for this wonderful author interview. I really appreciate Marsha’s showcasing of This Is How We Grow, stories and poems for perspective taking, compiled and edited by Yvette Prior. Marsha is a fellow contributed to this amazing anthology and is also the host of Story Chat Y3, a unique story writing blogging challenge. Marsha is showcasing, and hosting a discussion about, stories contributed by her current followers and also other interested writers and bloggers. You can find out more about it here: https://alwayswrite.blog/2023/09/14/story-chat-y3-story-writing-tips/

Welcome to Always Write. My goal in this Author Interview Series is to interview the talented authors who participated in Yvette’s anthology This is How We Grow, as well as the authors in the upcoming Story Chat, Online Literary Conversations.

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I met Robbie several years ago blogging, and now rarely a day goes by in which we don’t chat through our blogs. She has been so supportive of all my challenges commenting on almost all of them in spite of how busy she is. Everyone I know in the blogging world adores her, and if you don’t know her well yet, I hope you will by the end of this series. This is the first of several posts. In some of the posts she will offer writing advice, and others tell about her writing and blogging journeys.

I finished reading Yvette’s anthology, This Is How We Grow. Robbie, you have done so much. We all have to pant to keep up with you. In all of your activities on your blog, you don’t mention much about the difficult health issues you talked about in this enlightening book on perspectives that had me in tears as I read it. However, our readers will have to read Yvette’s book to get that glimpse of your life as we are going to veer away from that in these interviews.

That’s true, Marsha. I never shared much personal information on my blog because I didn’t think it would interest people, and it wasn’t in line with the purpose of my blog. My blog was a bit of an escape from home anxieties.

I started my first blog, Robbie’s Inspiration, in October 2016. It was after the launch of Michael and my first Sir Chocolate book, Sir Chocolate, and the Strawberry Cream Berries story and cookbook. The blog was intended to be a platform where I could share my cake and fondant art and poetry, and promote our Sir Chocolate books series. We had a contract with TLS Publications for 8 books at the time. I didn’t know anything about blogging initially, so I never really expected to develop friendships the way I have. 

Robbie’s Fondant Self-portrait during Covid

I was lucky enough to find Sally Cronin’s blog Smorgasbord early on, and I modelled my blogging off her approach and started sharing book reviews and recipes and interviewing a few blogging friends to help them promote their books.

I started my blog, Roberta Writes in October 2018 while I was writing my first YA novel, Through the Nethergate. I deemed it appropriate to split my children’s and adults writing. My split is a little blurry, though, as I tend to share poetry and photographs on both blogs. Although there are some cross-over followers, many of my followers are unique to one or the other blog.

Continue reading here: https://alwayswrite.blog/2023/09/19/author-interview-series-1-robbie-cheadle/

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  3. Everyone is loving your interview, Robbie. It was a pleasure to interview you on my blog, and that’s only Part I. Jo said you are a whirlwind. I agree! Then we’ve got the pleasure of your Story Chat story coming up on December 5th. It’s all ready to go! 🙂

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  6. Lovely post! Thanks for sharing at your blog Robbie, I’ll hop over to read more.
    I’ve just posted the review of This is How We Grow and I must say Robbie, your experiences are extremely well-written. All the time I was thinking how do you manage your writing and now I know that you keep yourself distracted from the moments of anxiety by writing! A big hug dear friend.

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  11. Great job, Robbie. And thanks for sharing this interview and information about This Is How We Grow. I’m another who has to pant to keep up with you! I think sharing some of our personal lives on our blogs can help us connect with fellow bloggers. You do a great job balancing that.

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