6/30/2023 0 Comments Becoming Miss Izzy by Sue ZookMy first introduction to the visionary fiction genre was back in the late 90s when I read The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. I can’t wait to get back and have a regular presence there again. That being said, publishing this book has been very cathartic, and I am pleasantly surprised that I am missing Los Angeles now. Like my main character, Cate, I had grown disillusioned by everything around me in a predominately material-obsessed environment, and I needed to live somewhere more grounded for a while. I spent more than a decade in LA, but for the last five years, I’ve lived in Portland, Oregon and Saint Petersburg, Florida. That job eventually ushered me through the gates of Universal Pictures in Los Angeles. After college, I bravely took the train to New York City with only $300 in my pocket to take an assistant position in film production. I attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated as a Theatrical Production Stage Manager. I lived in my imagination and loved the stage, but I was admittedly not a very good actress, so I navigated into production instead. And otherwise, I was very involved in the theater department at the local University. I was an only child and spent a great deal of time in a densely wooded forest near my home. Overall, I do feel it was a safe and good upbringing, although I have always been more spiritual than religious. I was born on an American military base in Germany and raised in a deeply entrenched southern Baptist community in rural North Carolina.
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