Writing a book is not for the faint of heart. After it’s published, the marketing/selling/giving it away can go on for years. I’m happy to be in that boat; my first book will “always” be on the shelf, and perhaps a book signing every now and again - even after five years. A pickleballer friend of ours, Jim W. (Wereszczynski), has created the Yinzers Group on Thursday afternoons. Yes, Jim is from Pittsburgh and proud of his Polish heritage. When he moved to this area around tw

It’s such a treat to meet up with Akimbo Alumni (the original, that is), as I did today with Betsy Bowen. We met in WIC (Seth Godin/Kristin Hatcher’s Writing in Community), as many of our writing friends did back in 2020 and beyond. We didn’t know what we were doing, though publishing a book was the premise of WIC. Kind of like, “the blind leading the blind.” I found out then that writers are good people, like quilters. So, it was Betsy who hosted me and my friend, Jodie,in

On the first Saturday of this month (March 7), I went to the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. I had no idea that this was a thing, even though I write daily and am in several writing groups (all online). But when writer Susan Walter off-handedly stated on a Badass Sister Zoom call a couple of weeks ago that she was on her way to Baltimore in a couple of hours, I interrupted her (a big no-no on a Zoom call, or at least in my bo

Kira Higgs is an exceptional writer! We met in 2020, when Hubby Bill and I joined Seth Godin's Writing in Community, along with Kristin Hatcher, from the Akimbo days. The daily writing, the people we met from around the country and the world, and the accountability to show up for each other for a few years running were truly life-changing, at least for me. The premise at that first session, from the vernal equinox to the winter solstice (six months), was to write and publish

My friend and fellow book author, Julie Rains, recently published the following on her Substack platform. I liked her post so much I...

When a friend asked me recently how my second book was coming along, I became sheepish. Knowing what I know from The Focused Fight (first...