Last Thursday, “Her Mentor Center” hosted author Sarah Pleydell, on a Virtual Book Tour for 
The essential thing about my first teacher was she saw me as a person first and that allowed my authentic self to speak through the feminine lens slotted over my vision. I have never lost that. When I write I sense her presence as the other half of a conversation…
To a question about self-disclosure, Pleydell responded,
What I know about writing is that so much of it–non-fiction or fiction–is born from the self, and how much we veil the personal “I″ depends on our own comfort level. It’s a hard one for me too. During interviews I feel an almost moral obligation to speak out as myself in order to reach out to survivors of abuse, who as I know all too well, are afraid and yes ashamed to identify themselves as such. That’s what writing about ‘me’ can do, it allows the writer to offer her/himself as a mirror in which others can discover their own secrets and mysteries. But it is always a struggle…
Read the entire Virtual Book Tour at “Her Mentor Center”.
