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...
Pub Day celebration on the Beautiful Writers Podcast!
It’s finally here! Pub Day for Beautiful Writers: A Journey of Big Dreams & Messy Manuscripts—with Tricks of the Trade from Bestselling Authors. To celebrate this happy occasion, I invited a few of my fave writers to join me for a writer’s roundup for...
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...
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