Nothing Is Beautiful - Raven Harris-Keim
This week we chat with author & animal enthusiast Raven Harris-Keim who wrote the book 'Nothing is Beautiful' a Post - apocalyptic, Western themed story of love, danger, family and adventure.
S 5, EP 172
This weeks Special Guest - Raven Harris-Keim.
We chat with Raven about how the support of her family helped foster her creativity and creative journey, how pressing pause is not quitting in the creative writing process and Raven shares from her perspective as an author who chooses to give a voice to her story! Plus we get to hear some fun chaos in the beginning - Angela treks across many miles to be early but barely on time, Jozlyn quits her Diner day job and scores her biggest VO audition to date, and Raven contends with Mother Nature on her way home to see family during the Summer break..Plus why did an 8 foot alligator cross Jozlyn's path?!?
More about our Guest - Raven Harris-Keim, was born in the historical town of Lawrence Kansas. Growing up, her love for nature and animals, nurtured by her father, drew her to the field of animal science. She's currently an animal technician for a laboratory in Salt lake city Utah, and in her second year of a degree in Animal health and behavior. Animals have always been Ravens drive, but when posed with the question “Who are you?” The answer has always been the same; "I am a writer". First she published a short story, a science fiction book called ‘Ineffable’, when Raven was 18, and before then she'd spent years scribbling stories into school notebooks, and entertaining family with whimsical tales of fantastical lands, aliens, and adventures. Finally, after years of tireless work, she finished ‘Nothing is beautiful’, her magnum opus. The recent audio book rendition of this amazing novel, is narrated by the talented Jack de Golia who has brought new life to the story, and Raven is so excited to share it with you all.
'Nothing is Beautiful' -
Life is hard for Sharkey and the other scrappers in Lawrence.
After the Great Oil Crisis the Earth became a hot, wild, dangerous place. Those that could reach the portals left the planet long ago. Those left behind live a desperate and brutal existence, surviving on the bones of a ruined civilization, fighting and killing each other in a world taken back by the earth.
But Sharkey has hope. Can he and his band of followers make it through the Nothing alive? And if they do, will they find the salvation they are looking for?
Nothing is Beautiful is a post apocalyptic western sci fi story of love and friendship, terror and loss, and fierce determination in the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity. You will not soon forget this compelling and original book.
Raven's Links -
https://www.audible.com/author/Raven-Harris-Keim/B07GR3Q94Z
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Ray-Harris-Keim/author/B0
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Raven Harris-Keim
Raven was born in the wonderful town of Lawrence Kansas to two very supportive and creative parents. My childhood was spent going on fantastic adventures with my father, and it was he who helped nurture my imagination into what it is today. Some of the best years of my life I spent thinking up new worlds with my father, driving around with him going over ideas and new characters. All that I want is for my stories to be read by the world, so that they might inspire others to write their own stories and to realize that inside of us all are infinite universes filled with infinite possibilities.
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