By Shannon Lukens.
A local author visited Sleeping Giant School today, to speak with 8th graders about how she started writing. Kendall Clarke now lives in Steamboat Springs. She is 25 years old and the author of a book called Drifting Light.
“Drifting Light relates to my own life and my journey to Steamboat because my main character, Lira, wants to explore the world and leave her small town and she does that and she explores and does not know where she is going to end up. Just like I left home of Tampa, Florida, traveled around and lived a few places and ended up in Steamboat myself, which I love and is a totally different environment from what I grew up in.”
Clarke says Drifting Light is fiction, and it took two years for her to write it, and another year to get it published.
Clarke told the students how she started writing for fun, and then she ended up writing a book. She said to keep doing the things you love because you might be able to make a career of it some day.
The school visit was arranged by Stephen Harbison, the School Resource Officer for the Routt County Sheriff’s Office.
