by Linda S | Jan 23, 2021 | Beautiful Writers Podcast
“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...
by Linda S | Dec 31, 2020 | Beautiful Writers Podcast
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...
by Linda S | Oct 22, 2020 | Beautiful Writers Podcast
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...
by Linda Sivertsen | Oct 18, 2020 | Beautiful Writers Podcast
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...
by Linda S | Oct 7, 2020 | Carmel Writing Retreats
“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...
by Linda Sivertsen | Oct 2, 2020 | Favorites, Writing, Marketing & Publishing Tips
Focus. Focus. “Hey, you! Yeah, YOU! FOCUS! “It’s just you and me here. “Leave everything else. Out. There. “I’m all you need right now. “Give me your attention. “And I’ll come to liiiiife.” This was me a few years ago when I wrote this post, my...
by Linda S | Aug 14, 2020 | Carmel Writing Retreats
Your book. Your love letter—to all you’ve been, done, and learned. You probably had a timeline in your head about when you’d have your samples and/or book proposal ready to pitch agents—YOU WERE DOIN’ IT! And then the world changed. Everything...
by Linda S | Aug 2, 2020 | Beautiful Writers Podcast
What do writers Trevor Noah, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jay-Z, and Mira Jacob have in common? Chris Jackson, legendary publisher and Editor-in-Chief of One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House. He’s on today’s episode of the Beautiful Writers Podcast with Valarie Kaur,...
by Linda S | May 31, 2020 | Beautiful Writers Podcast
The world feels like it’s exploding. With Covid-19 and anti-racism protests raging through our streets, I had a sensitive, maybe even a bold question to ask Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Patchett, two longtime literary idols of mine. How are a couple of white women so...
by Linda S | May 14, 2020 | Book Mama Recommends
My beautiful writers, I want to talk about the things we don’t talk about—that which shall not be named. The unmentionable here is SHAME. The shame so many want-to-be authors have around not having the “right” credentials. It was my father—on his...
