Write it & they will come (your idols, even!)
Book countdown continues! Four days until my book’s birthday. Sheesh! 💜 In preparation for next Tuesday, the 23rd, I just recorded a new episode of the Beautiful Writers Podcast: Pub Day Celebration: A Writer’s Roundup to air that morning. In true dream-come-true...
Memoirists Zibby Owens & Silvia Vasquez-Lavado on the Beautiful Writers Podcast
New York’s # 1 book influencer, author, DAILY podcaster, and publisher, Zibby Owens, is on the Beautiful Writers Podcast! Joining her is Peruvian mountaineer, humanitarian, and social entrepreneur, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, the first openly gay woman to climb...
Laying Low: Sometimes grieving is all you can do
Books on tape. I thank God for them. This week’s found me mainly on my couch surrounded by dogs, listening to beautiful books for upcoming podcast interviews. With less than three weeks until pub day for Beautiful Writers, you’d think it would be a...
It’s YOUR Time. (Even when it takes time.)
Happy weekend! Wow, yesterday was magical. I sent a writing retreat client’s query letter to literary agents. This writer is ready, having crafted a beautiful tale. She perfected her book proposal, including several fabulous blurbs, and had it professionally...
My Finished Book is Here! God, that was SLOW/FAST! (Delays don’t last. Phew!)
Ever work for YEARS on a book? Maybe it’s still parked on your desktop as you sequester in your bed office, feeling like a complete bore as you forgo countless invites. So desperate to get to the last page of your story, your days could be mistaken for a whole...
Book ARC vs. Galley: What the heck?
My galleys for Beautiful Writers are here! Is it weird that I slept with her by my pillow the first night? 🛌 To be more accurate, these babies are my “uncorrected Advance Review Copies”—or ARCs. What’s the difference? Galleys are rough proofs of your book...
Live Virtual Event + Q & A with Danielle LaPorte
Where’s your book at? In your heart, on your hard drive, or in your client stories and service in the world? Let’s talk about incubating creativity and what it takes to make book babies—or just great content. Join me and my soul sister Danielle LaPorte for a...
Danielle LaPorte & Me Pod Reunion, Post Deadline Truth Tellin’
We’ve missed you, Danielle & me! Our season of book delivery kicked our asses. (How to Be Loving for Danielle and Beautiful Writers for me, both available for preorder.) But that’s what it takes, often, to create our best work. So, since we know...
Feeling Testy? Mars & Saturn Conjunct. Whoa
On edge lately? Goodness, who hasn’t been?! My sister, Carol Allen, a Vedic astrologer who makes incredibly accurate predictions on the timing of things, sent out the below newsletter last Sunday morning—hours BEFORE the Oscar slap heard ‘round the world. I’m sharing...
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