Dear writers, I'm leading a three-week writing workshop at Subterranean Books in May. Want to join me? It's a hybrid creative writing/productivity class designed to arouse you from your torpor. If you want to get back into writing regularly, come write with me. I'll teach you productivity hacks and guide you through timed writings that get your wheels turning again. Open to writers of all genres and experience levels. All you need is a notebook, a pen, and a hankering to write. Creating a...
9 months ago • 1 min read
Happy New Year, storytellers and book lovers. May 2024 bring you perfect health and brilliant physicians. Renewal. Inspiration. Courage. Immunity from shame. My heartfelt thanks go to all of you who followed me and my husband through my battle with cancer over the last two years and my liver transplant in April. My scans are clear, my labs are perfect. Your messages brought light and strength to me and my husband, and it looks like we made it. Thank you for sending your love so steadily....
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Dear Wild Beta Reader, The next read is ready for you! We’d love your notes on this one. Does Murder on Market Street sound good to you? Jaded website editor Jessica Reagan is on the verge of a midlife crisis. Her job is a joke and now her ex-husband is engaged to a much younger social media influencer. A chance encounter at their engagement party sends her on a quest to get her mojo back. In the process, she confronts her past and dives head first into a twenty-year-old murder. Can she save...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, I hope you're doing well and reading good books! You may have noticed that we took a hiatus for a while; I had to get rid of some pesky stage-4 cancer and assimilate a new liver, but I'm cancer free now and we're ready now to get back to business -- which means bringing you two new novels to beta-read! But first, a question: Do you still want to be a Wild Beta Reader? If you're not, just hit Unsubscribe & we'll leave your inbox alone. What is a Wild Beta Reader? From time to...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
How well do you know Microsoft Word? We're curious! Follow this link to take a quick quiz. We hope you're safe, warm, and WRITING GOOD STORIES. Happy mid-January, all! Meghan
almost 4 years ago • 1 min read
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almost 4 years ago • 1 min read
Hello, writers -- Twelve days into 2021 and it's already bananas . . . [insert grievous moan and a wild rush of hope]. Here's our way of helping you stay on (or get on) track. Let me know if we can help. Accountability Partners for Writers Strategy, Accountability, & Critique for your 2021 projects. 4+4+1 Plan : $250/month (4 weeks) 4 Email Check-ins on Sundays 4 Strategic Assignments on Sundays 1 Critique: Notes on 5,000 words delivered on one Sunday a month 4+4+4 Plan: $500/month (4 weeks)...
about 4 years ago • 1 min read
Hello, writers -- Twelve days into 2021 and it's already bananas . . . [insert grievous moan and a wild rush of hope]. Here's our way of helping you stay on (or get on) track. Let me know if we can help. Accountability Partners for Writers Strategy, Accountability, & Critique for your 2021 projects. 4+4+1 Plan : $250/month (4 weeks) 4 Email Check-ins on Sundays 4 Strategic Assignments on Sundays 1 Critique: Notes on 5,000 words delivered on one Sunday a month 4+4+4 Plan: $500/month (4 weeks)...
about 4 years ago • 1 min read
Happy New Year, writer. I hope it's off to a good start for you. Have you taken time yet to appreciate all the things you accomplished last year? You might be surprised at how much you managed to get done, all things considered. Whether you measure in love, coffee spoons, fingers, fingers, or books, you made it through The Year That Wasn't, and that means you're a survivor. Against all odds, we got a decent amount of work done last year, which we owe entirely to the trust and flexibility of...
about 4 years ago • 3 min read
