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Want a STELLAR 2021?
You've probably heard me say that I don't make a significant move without consulting the stars via my little sis, Carol Allen, one of the top Vedic astrologers (& love coaches!) in the country. Her predictions are so spot on that I've learned over the decades to...
Liz Gilbert & Marie Forleo: Behind the Bestsellers
"I'm glad I'm not competitive," Elizabeth Gilbert said when listing her dear friend Marie Forleo's assets and calling her a "quintuple threat" before adding how incredibly loyal, decent, and giant-hearted she is. It's with that kind of feel-good sisterhood that we...
Beautiful Writers Podcast “Best-Of” Part 4 Episode
It's here—our 4th annual Beautiful Writers Podcast "Best-Of" episode! Just in time to save your creativity in the New Year from all that binge-watching and doomscrolling. It's been a year—2020 (hence why this Summer episode's dropping in Winter). I don't have to tell...
YA Superstars Tomi Adeyemi & Sabaa Tahir on Living & Writing Heroically
Two of the top-selling YA Fantasy authors EVER give us a master class on earning, output, and living as epic a life as the stories they’re writing, on this fifth birthday of the Beautiful Writers Podcast. These #1 New York Times bestselling novelists—Nigerian-American...
I was warned she’d be kidnapped. And then she was. A tale of seduction and courage.
An astrologer once warned me that India Oxenberg was in danger of being kidnapped. This was woo-woo California in the early '90s, but I still knew to take him seriously. India was a wee babe when my family and I moved into Catherine Oxenberg's Beverly Hills estate....
Pastry & Writing w/ Me in Oct. in Carmel. Then, a Virtual Retreat!
“This is the best food I’ve ever eaten!” said all four of my Carmel Writing Retreat participants during our week together in Carmel-by-the-Sea last month. Food’s no joke when you’re bringing worlds to life. It’s a comfort thing. But also a brain thing. Glucose powers...
What do I put in my book proposal? And how do I build a “platform”?!
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@MoxieDude Great points! 😎
It means so much when literary agents or editors at publishing houses tell us WHY they're a No and not a Yes. My wo… t.co/L9BMl39qY4
Because you want to see a group of horses having a day at the beach.
