Glennon Doyle Melton w/ Martha Beck & Me on the Beautiful Writers Podcast
Oh my God, you guys. I can’t wait to share today’s Beautiful Writers Podcast episode with you! I’m totally addicted to Glennon Doyle Melton and her new book, LOVE WARRIOR. I’m serious. No exaggeration. You’re not even going to believe how good this memoir is....
Girls Rule & Other Publishing Success Stories
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to attend one of my writing retreats in Carmel—and wondered if signing up was right for you—allow me to share part of a blog from past retreater, Kelly Noonan. (She’s the one in the white pants, second from the right, with a few...
Launch Day: iTunes podcast w/ Liz Gilbert & Martha Beck
Early on, I listened to a podcast that I LOVED! Two authors talking about the creative process with an easy back-and-forth from years of friendship. I was in heaven! But before I could sit down with my cup of tea and settle in for a good listen, it was over. I swear...
Signed Big Magic Book Giveaway!
It's that time again. Book Mama book giveaway! Time for me to thank YOU for being part of my community (because writing is so much more fun as part of a tribe!). A few years ago, you may remember, I bought 10 copies of Liz Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things to give...
Fame Will Heal You
There’d been a big auction. Her memoir was about to drop in stores nationwide and become a New York Times bestseller. Twenty+ years of daily writing practice and pie-in-the-sky dreams were about to be realized. “I’m scared,” she wrote to me. “After all these years of...
Success Via Strangers: My husband’s lover did me a favor…
It's true. My family still jokes that we should send her flowers for "taking" my husband of 19 years away. Obviously that's a long story. But one I think about every time a Carmel Writing Retreat grad inks a new book deal. (Yay! See our latest below!) We came together...
Feel like a social media loser? Why you can still get a book deal. Part I
"How many social media followers do I have to have to get a book deal?" This question was posed to Danielle LaPorte and me on our recent Publishing Power Hour Spreecast call. D's answer--5,000 - 6,000--was pretty spot on, if not conservative, especially if you want a...
There’s an app for that: Just launched my first app baby
Hello my beautiful writer friends… I'm writing to you from a beautiful rainy spring day in upstate New York. When you live in L.A. and the sun bakes down on you pretty much all day every day, rain is especially BEAUTIFUL. I've been on the East Coast for a few weeks,...
Tortured by the words?
"Part of the problem is that you're weird and you know it. Whatever made you talented as a kid also served to make you a bit odd." ~Sam Bennett Sound familiar? Feel more than a little accurate? I spent bits of the weekend trying to explain to my boyfriend why I seem...
This Shit Writes Itself!
This graphic just made me laugh out loud. Think of it—Shakespeare actually saying something so damn funny. But you know what? After being on a long writing jag of my own, I have no doubt he uttered this statement. Exactly. I can see William—Bill—now, rockin’ back in...
The Last Letter I Ever Wrote My Mother
Back in 1996, when my mother was 59, her doctors diagnosed her with cancer. In the next breath they told her there was nothing they could do and that she very likely only had weeks to live. I became obsessed with wanting her to know what kind of mother she’d been....
A Writer’s Ache to be Heroic
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” ~Charles Dickens Being the hero of your own life. Ever wonder about that? What does that really mean for us “regular” people walking...
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#Carmelies! Now out in paperback, The Chateau, a Novel by @jaclyngoldis. 💜Have you read it yet? A total page-turner! Her latest thriller, The Main Character, is out in May. (If you saw the trades last week, you know she just sold two more books to @atriabooks!!!)
Jaclyn is the sweetest. 💕 And brilliant. She has a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and a JD from NYU School of Law. She practiced estate planning law at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago for seven years before leaving her job to travel the world and write novels (Lord in heaven, her retreat sisters and I were PRAYING that would work out… ha!). 😂 After culling her possessions into only what would fit in a backpack, Jaclyn traveled for over a year until settling near the beach to write from cafes.
Jaclyn’s debut novel, WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, historical women’s fiction, was published in 2021 by Hachette/Grand Central.
From The Chateau’s book bio: A dream girls’ trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and murder in this stylish, twisty thriller for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and Lisa Jewell. Welcome to picturesque Provence, where the Lady of the Chateau, Séraphine Demargelasse, has opened its elegant doors to her granddaughter Darcy and three friends. Amid winery tours, market visits, and fancy dinners overlooking olive groves and lavender fields, the friends begin to suspect each other of murder. Because the chateau houses many secrets . . . several worth killing for. Named one of the most anticipated thrillers of 2023 by Goodreads.
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💜 #Repost from @srwhmg . Splendor cannot stop kissing his little brother! Mom is advising caution ; )
Video by SRWHMG photographer Karen Carney. #saltriverwildhorses
💜Hard to believe, I know. If you’re in the slog, the messy middle, or have been rejected over & over, this sounds like fluff or LIES. But. I swear. I see it all the time—writers who don’t quit, keep showing up, edit and rework, and refuse to drop the faith (at least for long), see their books in stores and all over social media in people’s hot little hands.💚
Sometimes (often!), it takes years longer than they thought or hoped. But when they look back, they see the beauty in the delays and the magic in the mayhem.☀️
I just connected two retreat clients with their pinch-me wishlist agents on books they almost gave up on for how long they took to make beautiful. It’s TOUGH sloggin’ for nearly everyone until it’s not. Trust your desire.
Keep going is all I’m sayin’. 💕
LOVE you. x
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This is so true. The gift of permission is so important! And BTW/ this is a brilliant book promo. With QR codes to boot!!!!
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My husband just said the line of the day: “It’s always the people who don't have a pot to piss in who want to teach you how to be rich.” 🤣
#Carmelies! Now out in paperback, The Chateau, a Novel by @jaclyngoldis. 💜Have you read it yet? A total page-turner! Her latest thriller, The Main Character, is out in May. (If you saw the trades last week, you know she just sold two more books to @AtriaBooks!!!)
Jaclyn is the…
💜Hard to believe, I know. If you’re in the slog, the messy middle, or have been rejected over & over, this sounds like fluff or LIES. But. I swear. I see it all the time—writers who don’t quit, keep showing up, edit and rework, and refuse to drop the faith (at least for long),…
Pre-eclipse ride. 🤠😎🐴 Now it’s time to go hunker down and meditate. 🫣🙏 Yee-haw! Are you watching or looking elsewhere? 👀🤩 I wanna do both! Ha. We shall see. . . (Prob won't look, though, since my Native American & East Indian friends say their traditions recommend against…
