Authority

Hello, I am Maddy Dammerman, and welcome to From Expertise to Authority, where I talk with people who have succeeded in building their professional presence for a sideline or second act.

You can find out more at theindyauthor.com, that's Indy with a Y, where you will also find links to all the episodes of the From Expertise to Authority podcast, my Substack, my YouTube channel, and a downloadable worksheet you can use to track your own journey.

And today my guest is Joanne McLaughlin.

Hey, Joanne.

Her novels include Murder in Act One, which is available in September of 2026, A Poetic Puzzle, Chasing Ashes, and the vampire trilogy, Never Before Noon, Never Until Now, and Never More Human.

You can find her most recent short fiction in Behind the Revolving Door, volume one.

And so I know Joanne from various Philadelphia area author events, and she has also been a guest on the Indy Author podcast, and I think that her career trajectory is so interesting, I thought she would be perfect to talk about that on From Expertise to Authority.

So Joanne, I think that there are probably, like, a number of ways you could answer the question, what was the first or main career where you developed your expertise? But when you think about where you are today, what part of your professional career do you feel like fed most directly into the kind of work you're doing today?

Authora Level Psychology.

Authority: Milgram and Bocchiaro.

Study Guide podcast episode.

Hello, and welcome to your OCR A Level Psychology Study Guide podcast.