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25 Authors and What They'd Be if they Weren't Authors

25 Authors and What They'd Be if they Weren't Authors

25 Authors and What They'd Be if they Weren't Authors

Ever wonder what your favorite authors would be doing if they weren’t writing your favorite books? Is writing their full-time job or is it something they do on the side? Do they have secret passions and talents like furniture making or tennis or sand-up comedy? Or would they be unemployed? Scroll down to find out.

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Stephanie Dray

unemployed without other marketable skills

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Denny S. Bryce

Anyone of the other careers I've had and loved including professional modern dancer in Chicago and New York City, Media Relations Specialist, Owner of my own Event Management, Marketing, and PR firm, amateur Tennis player:)...

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RaeAnne Thayne

High school English teacher

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Michelle Major

Animal rescue person, librarian, singer/songwriter – but I can’t carry a tune.

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Idelle Kursman

Librarian. I love to be surrounded by books.

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Jane Healey

product manager in high tech, which I used to be

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Lisa Renee Jones

I can’t even imagine being anything else at this point in my life.

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Jennifer Dupee

architect or furniture maker

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Patti Callahan

interior designer

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Harold Schechter

College Professor. Which I was for 42 years.

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SJ Bennett

Designer or jazz singer (ideally)

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Michael Schauch

Creating some other form of artistic expression.

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Debbie Johnson

journalist, probably, as it’s what I did before. And I did love it. But if I was to ever be in a position to retrain and start a new career now, I’d probably be drawn to working with older people or vulnerable adults.

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Alexis Landau

Religious Studies professor or art historian

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Tatiana de Rosnay

opera singer or rock star

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Daniel Pyne

Graphic artist

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Christina McDonald

I'd still be writing, just doing digital copywriting for websites rather than telling stories in books.

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Jenny LeCoat

Probably retired! But I’ve also been a stand-up comic, a TV presenter, and, since 1994, a TV/ screenwriter, so I’ve had a really fortunate career.

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Suzanne Redfearn

I am also an architect, and I still love designing and building the physical world.

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MJ Rose

Painter

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Gabrielle Korn

Being an author is actually my side hustle. I'm a journalist and digital media strategist.

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Sue Buyer

Newspaper journalist - which I was before I was an author.

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Connie Palmen

Stand-up comedian

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Rob Swigart

Neuroscientist or marine biologist or historian or party clown

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Serena Burdick

An actor

Bonus:

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Jenny Milchman

Psychologist--I practiced psychotherapy for 10 years (left graduate school when the cursed dissertation got me). But writing was always the dream.

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