VOTM: What’s the strangest experience you’ve ever had at a literary event?
YOUNGER: At one of the first TV appearances I’ve done in promoting the book, the host introduced me not as “award-winning journalist” or “author” like other have (cue the author bio), but as “Disaster Expert Sandra Millers Younger.” Who knew?
Journalist SANDRA MILLERS YOUNGER is the author of The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California’s Epic Cedar Fire. Sandra’s writing credits range from academic journals to Seventeen magazine. Drawn to journalism by the opportunity to explore diverse subjects, meet fascinating people, and ask endless questions, she has written about everything from garden mulch to bionics. During 10 years spent researching and writing “The Fire Outside My Window,” she did more than 100 interviews with subject experts, first responders, fire survivors, and families of victims. For the past ten years, Bob, Sandra and their Newfoundland dogs have lived in Wildcat Canyon, where 12 of the Cedar Fire’s 15 victims died.
Come see Younger read at 3rdSpace on Saturday, August 24 at 7pm.