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Peta-Gaye Nash never imagined myself as a children’s author. She started writing stories after she had children. She is the eldest of three girls but my mom says that she still acts like I’m 6. My stories all have important messages like road safety, being yourself and the importance of education. The inspiration comes from life experiences because there’s a lesson to be learned from everything. Peta-Gaye wrote my first children’s story Don’t Take Raja to School in 2003 but she put it at the back of my closet because the story didn’t have a happy ending. Six years later, the story got its happy ending and my first children’s book was published. It was inspired by my daughter Jade and her stuffed animal Raja. The other three books are inspired and written about experiences with my other three children, Reine, Liam and Meadow. Peta-Gaye was born in Jamaica and she has also lived in the United States and Norway. She now calls Canada home, along with my husband and four children. In 2015, she won the Marty Awards for Emerging Literary Art and in 2013, got an honorable mention for the same award. Peta-Gaye teach English as a Second Language during the day and write at night.
Recently, Peta Gaye was on our show. During our conversation, she talked about:
– Some background about herself including life growing up in Kingston, Jamaica including growing up with a large family while her grandparents were still alive
– Some of her experience living in the United States and experiencing bullying and her experiences in Canada and in Europe and coming back to Jamaica
– How writing became part of her life
– The story behind her getting her story and her first book being published
– The response to her content
– What insprired her to start writing children’s books and the story behind her first children’s book
– What is easier for her to write children’s or adult books
– What has writing done for her
– Something that has not written about yet
– What is her biggest writing challenge
– What does she want her legacy to be
– Her concerns for children of the world and suggestion to parents to overcome them
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