Christine U. Cowin was born in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales, Australia, and is one of three siblings. She’s had an interesting life, venturing outside of her own country, where she found the inspiration to write books. Her greatest love is writing. Her favourite pastimes include reading, travelling and meeting people, and capturing these moments through photography. Her other passion is life coaching, helping people through her own life experiences that have given her a deeper understanding of life and people. She is an intuitive coach and the author of My Secret Self: Trials and Tribulations of an Innocent.

You can find Christine Cowin’s books on her website and on her Amazon Author Page.
You can also find her on Instagram, iTunes, Twitter, and Facebook.
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What motivates you to write and how did you get started?

As a child, I was never given books by my parents. I was only given a few second-hand books by my aunt. To read, I would seek out my father’s forbidden magazines in the cellar. I wanted to know about the world and how it worked and how I came here, and why I came to this planet?

Years go by; I was married and left him after 22 years. All my life, I had been experiencing life like I was set up to experience everything. So I played that game in life. I was born Spiritual, and on a level, I understood life without knowing what it was I was understanding or what I had to understand. I wanted to know who I was, where I came from. Where was I going after death?

In 1997 I attended an Esoteric College. There I found my answers and I found the words to tell me what I knew. I started to find the answers to my questions. I now knew I had innate knowledge.

Through this college; I had the opportunity to go to Italy to study. Before I left for Italy, I was reminded about a memory I’d had while I was still married. In 1984, I had got a message to go to Turkey.

I did Italy, left everyone and I went off to Istanbul. I had never travelled outside my own country before this trip. I travelled to Kusadasi and then around Turkey like I knew it. On reaching Istanbul, an opportunity opened up for me, through the angelic realm. I returned to Australia and sold all I owned and returned to Istanbul to live there forever, but I stayed only six years.

In my first year in Istanbul I was taken to an Esoteric Astrologer. He told me: you have to write books on your life’s journey. My answer to that was, ‘Me? I have no grammatical skills – how can I write a book?’ But I’d had a desire to write, when I left my husband.

Nonetheless, God works in mysterious ways and God organised it that I would find the right person to put me on that path, and that person told me, “you’re a natural writer,” so we did Reiki and I wrote.

During this I was asked to teach English. When that happened I shook my head; how can I teach English? However, the schools insisted I teach because I was a native English speaker. So I learnt the grammar to teach the English to the students. The students taught me grammar and I taught them to open up and speak up. So there the journey began, and in two years I wrote 887 pages and 409000 odd words.

I returned to Australia in 2008 and here I found out I was mildly dyslexic and I got an editor. Poor editor, he edited my book, but it needed more work. However, live and learn; eventually my book was self-published in 2018 and I had it re-edited in 2019, and now it has been all corrected.

Now I am a prolific writer of my own stories, other stories, poetry and phrases, and all flow off the top of my head.

What’s most rewarding about writing?

Most rewarding is telling my story that may help other people in their lives. We each have a story to tell, and I hope my books may inspire others to tell their story. I still have many books to write with many experiences to share. Also, seeing my story printed in a book and being sold all over the world has been so rewarding.

What’s your favourite genre and why?

Autobiography; as it’s what I am here to do. However, I have many, many stories written that are not completed, on many different genres. However, they seem to be linked to supernatural and spiritual.

Where do your characters come from?

Well for my autobiography that just comes naturally. However, for my other stories I’ve written and not yet published, the characters in those stories just seem to appear in my dream state and I watch their movie, and I write their story after the dream.

Who is an author who inspires you and why?

Dan Brown. Why, because I like symbology and I like to question what’s been taught to the masses, and I like to dig deep into the truth of life, and there is more to this world than meets the eye.

What do I look for in other people’s books?

Truth! Books, fiction or non-fiction or other genres, all hold an element of truth of the self or those you encounter.

Tell us about your newest book or what you’re writing now.

My newest book is coming out in May or June 2019. It’s the next story in the series: My Secret Self. It is telling the reader how spirituality is catching up with me, and I am searching for answers and the truth of life.

What kind of book would you like to be known for?

I want to be known as the author who tells the raw truth and questions life. I want to be known as the author who has dedicated her life to experiencing life to understand it; then wrote on those experiences to help others who may benefit from her experiences. I write for those interested in truth and who aren’t ready to travel on their own path to their own truth yet.

What has writing taught you about yourself?

Writing has taught me the impossible is possible. I never believed I could write a book with my poor grammatical skills; however, they improved as I wrote. I have learned to trust others with my work. I have let go of my need to control, in doing that I have found some great people to help me to edit my books. That has been a battle. Finally, I’ve found the right ones. And it’s really been about me letting go. I realise on this writing journey the importance of other people’s eyes to help you present good books for the world arena.

How has your life experiences influenced your writing?

My life experiences have influenced my writing greatly, because I had to experience life to write about it; to show others not to be afraid of life and the unknown. The fear you feel is in you, not outside of you; if you get scared, search within to see what it is you are not facing in your life. I have faced my life and I have lived my life, to know who I am.

What encouraging advice can you offer new writers?

If you have the desire to write, do it. If you are a natural writer, write, don’t think about it; the more you think, the more stuck you’ll become. Just write. Don’t correct your writing, write and then when you stop writing, then correct it.

If you need guidance to learn how to write, seek out a good teacher to help you. Or join a creative writing course. If you know a writer or two, ask them for advice.

Just write with no attachments, no beliefs or self-conditionings. A gift is not a conditioning; it will flow.