PHOTOJOURNALIST and AWARD WINNING AUTHOR [Jeannée Sacken] - Wordsleuth's 28th Pass-the-Baton Instagram Live Interview (Word Improv Community) (June 11, 2023)

A former English professor, Jeannée Sacken is now a photojournalist who travels to the ends of the earth, documenting the lives of women and children. She also photographs wildlife and is deeply committed to the conservation of endangered species. Described by MKE Lifestyle magazine as “Indiana Jones with a camera,” Jeannée has summitted Mt. Kilimanjaro, canoed the Zambezi River, kayaked the North Pacific, and driven through far-western Mongolia in a blizzard. Many of her adventures have been fictionalized into her novels. Her debut novel,

Behind the Lens, won numerous awards, including the 2021 American Writing Awards Novel of the Year and The Hawthorne Prize. Her second novel, Double Exposure, won the Firebird Awards for Suspense, Romantic Suspense, and Women’s Fiction. Her third novel in The Annie Hawkins Series launches is October 2023. When not traveling, Jeannée is at home in Shorewood, Wisconsin, with her husband and cats. Follow Jeannée at jeanneesacken.com.

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Pass-the-Baton Interview # 28 is the twenty-eighth in a series of Instagram Live interviews where contributors to our Word Improv challenges interview one another so that our community and audience learns about Word Improv writers and their work. 

@carolvandenhende interviews @authorjeanneesacken

@sarenastraus is Alternate

by @wordsleuth 

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The Word Improv Community by @Wordsleuth is an eclectic, collaborative and evolving social media-driven collective of stakeholders from the writing/publishing and entertainment industries. The Word Improv Challenge, central to what we do, challenges participants to identify and use unusual words.  Participation in this challenge unlocks access to our Pass-the-Baton interviews, where participants interview one another via Instagram Live, in order for our community and followers to learn more about the interviewees and their work.  The interviews are converted into a podcast called ‘Wordsleuth’s Pass-the-Baton Interviews’.  We recently launched on social media a new, leaderboard-driven, Word Improv-inspired game/competition to help put our knowledge of the words we learn to the test: Scribe Wars! Virtual book tours and creative collaboration will be incorporated into our efforts to maximize value and engagement for our community.