Jolene Philo

In 2003 I left teaching after 25 years as a classroom teacher to pursue a career as a writer and speaker. It was a risk, but God made his will so clear, it would have been a bigger risk not to follow it. For four years, I split my time between writing newspaper and magazine articles and working as Director of Discipleship and Assimilation at our church. During those years I landed an agent. We met at a writing conferences. Those conferences were a way to meet people in the publishing industry. Much better than waiting for them to find our little gravel road.

In September of 2009, Discovery House Publishers released my first book, A Different Dream for My Child: Meditations for Parents of Children with Critical or Chronic Illness. In November of 2011, the same publisher released Different Dream Parenting: A Practical Guide to Raising a Child with Special Needs. Since then, I’ve published three more books:

The Caregiver’s Notebook (Discovery House, 2014)
Every Child Welcome: A Ministry Handbook for Including Kids with Special Needs (Kregel, 2015), co-authored with Katie Wetherbee
Does My Child Have PTSD? What to Do When Your Child Is Hurting from the Inside Out (Familius, 2015)

My agent is also pitching my first mystery novel, See Jane Run! to select publishers, also. The big YAHOO! you’ll hear when you least expect it will let you know a contract’s been offered.

http://jolenephilo.com/about-me/

Books on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Jolene-Philo/e/B002BML7ZW%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Music for Podcast
Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-grove
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Original Broadcast: 11/02/2020