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Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

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5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Prue Batten writes award winning historical fantasy and fiction from her farm in Tasmania in her native Australia. After working as a journalist/researcher for Australian Broadcasting Corporation and raising a family, she writes novels and farms with her husband in a cropping and grazing operation. Dissatisfied with a librarian job, she walked up the street. At the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, she thought “I'll go in there and ask for a job.” Hired on the spot for a human resources slot, she was a researcher three months later. “It was the best job of all time. I loved it.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:17.0	Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered her talents to do work she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:28.6	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Prue Batten. Welcome, Prue.
0:33.6	Thanks very much, Don. Hi.
0:36.6	Hi. Question, are you using your talents doing work that you love?
0:41.3	I think so, and I hope so.
0:43.3	Good.
0:44.3	So do I, and we want to hear the whole story.
0:46.3	Prue Batten was born in Australia and studied history and politics at the University of Tasmania.
0:53.3	She's been a journalist researcher for the
0:55.7	Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She now farms in Tasmania with her husband in a cropping
1:02.0	and grazing operation. She has two adult children, two dogs, and claims she has too much garden
1:08.6	and too little time to write. But right she does.
1:12.1	Pru writes historical fantasy.
1:14.1	She has concluded the Gisborne trilogy and has just finished writing Tobias,
1:17.9	the first in an historical fiction trilogy called The Triptych Chronicles,
1:23.0	due to be published in August of 2015.
1:26.1	Each of her novels has ranked in Amazon's top 100 since publication
1:30.7	and continue to rank for which she thanks her readers. Prue, that's a pithy summary of your life so
1:37.5	far. Take just a few minutes, if you will, and tell our listeners what you're up to now that has you
1:42.1	engaged and fascinated, if you would.
1:50.3	Well, right now, I'm just waiting for my editor in the UK to come back to me with the final edits of Tobias.
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