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Nancy's Bookshelf: Switching roles into fiction writing

Two guests transitioned from other careers into fiction writing. Jim Bottomley, formerly an attorney, honed his writing abilities while incarcerated.

Maurice Huffman, a local musician who began writing music at age 15, recently published a bedtime story he used to tell his young son.

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Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.