Ciji Ware is a bestselling historical novelist who spent nearly 20 years on the radio at ABC in LA. Several years ago, she made a big splash with her self-help book “Rightsizing Your Life.”

In 1997, she wrote a successful novel called “The Cottage By the Sea,” and she just couldn’t get the characters out of her head. 

So she decided to see where those characters would take her. She traveled back to her ancestral home of Cornwall, England, and discovered that in many ways, life had begun to imitate her art and the fictional world she’d created. She even found herself staying in the real-life castle that served as the inspiration for the home in her novel.

She’s now self-published the follow-up to that book and it’s called “That Summer in Cornwall.”

Ciji, who just celebrated her 70th birthday, explains why she and her husband wanted to experiment with publishing. For someone who has been published by the biggest publishing houses in the world, it was a bold step but one that she says was life-changing in so many ways.

She explains the revolution that’s underway in publishing and how anyone can use the digital tools available to create their own platforms and distribution methods.

Plus, find out why she believes the people who age the happiest are the ones who never stop learning and having a community of like-minded people and kindred souls around them.