1) Tell us a little bit about yourself. How did you get into writing?

I’ve been writing since I was a young kid. I had a cousin in England and had a regular correspondence with him. Then as a Sociology professor I was writing academic articles for 40 years. 

2) What inspired you to write your book?

I have been collecting notes about my own sessions as a patient and sessions I had with patients, for many years. The book has been in the works for more than 10 years.

3) What theme or message do you hope readers will take away from your book?

I hope readers will empathize with Rose’s growth and also learn about what psychoanalysis is about. Many people think it means the analyst is predominantly silent and just makes interpretations.

4) What drew you into this particular genre?

I wrote academic articles until I published Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents Even if They Didn’t Take Care of You in 2005. That book was a combination of personal experience with my mother and interviews with 50 caretakers across the country. My next book was a novel Two Sisters of Coyoacan which was about the assassination Leon Trotsky. Our Time is Up is my second novel.

5) If you could sit down with any character in your book, what would you ask them and why?

The main character is based on myself so I don’t have any questions to ask her.

6) What social media site has been the most helpful in developing your readership?

I have not had great success in promoting the book. I am trying Facebook ads now.

7) What advice would you give to aspiring or just starting authors out there?

Plan the publicity before the book is published. It takes a lot of time  and some things require doing before pub date.

8) What does the future hold in store for you? Any new books/projects on the horizon?

I am focussed on trying to promote Our Time is Up, but I am also thinking about a second book with the same protagonist later in her life.

About the Author

Roberta Satow, Ph.D. is a practicing psychoanalyst in Washington, CT. She is a senior member of the faculty and control analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Satow is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In addition to her non-fiction book Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents Even if They Didn’t Take Care of You (Tarcher/Penguin 2006), she is the editor of Gender and Social Life (Allyn

and Bacon, 2000) and she has written a novel Two Sisters of Coyoacan (2017). Dr. Satow writes a blog for Psychology Today: 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-after-50

https://www.robertasatow.com