Books are slippery mother-fers! And memoir? Heaven help you.
On your path to authorship, there’s something or someone you believe you need, a piece of the puzzle that still eludes you. You can see the outcome, even feel it, but you’re not 100 percent sure how to attain it. So, you plan and scheme, plot and pray,...
Frozen fingers? The cure to writer’s block (hint: it’s not about you)
I’ve got a quickie shine-your-light reminder for you today. This morning, while recording a podcast, the interviewer asked how I stave off writer’s block. I took a beat and blurted out the first thought that popped into my head; that whenever the words...
Who doesn’t wonder: Was it good for you too?
No glam shots today. Instead, real-life editing pics with a client. Connection and brainstorming over a manuscript is pure JOY to me, even if the dang glasses hurt the bridge of my nose (is it just me?). I ask questions, listen for what’s said and isn’t...
Avoiding your website edits? Me too!
Hello from rewriting land! Not for a book but for my website. Is it just me, or do you ever agonize over writing ABOUT yourself? (That sounds odd, perhaps, coming from a gal who just published nearly 400 pages of a partial memoir. LOL.) But I’ve been...
New Carmel Writing Retreat Schedule
A funny thing happened while launching my book, Beautiful Writers, over the past six weeks. I started smelling the Carmel seashore. Like, for reals—an unexpected happening, seeing as how I’m 703 miles away in the desert of Arizona, loving my life and my horses...
Silencing the bullies for max courage
You’re talented. Amazingly strong. You’ve overcome more in the past ten days than some people do in a lifetime. You know what you know, and you’re great at what you’re great at. You’re on a mission! So, why the high-stakes fear? Have haters from the past taken up...
When the Universe rearranges itself in your favor
During my early writing years, I chased interviews with several celebrities in the desperate hope my agent would finally have those “bigger names” he was always telling me I needed to get my first book deal. If you’ve read Beautiful Writers: A...
Book launches leave clues + magic
When it’s time to market your book, is it all on your shoulders, or can you look to the Universe for some of the heavy lifting? As I promote Beautiful Writers, I’ve thought a lot about that. I just learned that some of my Beautiful Writers Group members...
Fun book launch update + other news
As you know, launching a book into the world is not your everyday occurrence. Certainly not something most of us do with any regularity. As such, we dream and toil over our manuscripts for YEARS, and by the time we release them from the privacy of our laptops into the...
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