A highlight of my year is attending the Women’s Fiction Writers Association annual retreat each September. The group is made up of such savvy, smart, ambitious and generous writers. I was also honored to be the chairperson for their last two Agent Pitch Events.
Florida is so hot and sticky in the summer. Ugh! I’m grateful we can spend time at our cabin in the North Georgia mountains, where lower temps and lower humidity make life more bearable.
My adopted hometown of Jacksonville, FL, is the setting for my work-in-progress. The St. Johns river crisscrosses our city several times. Downtown Jacksonville, where much of my story takes place, sits right on the river.
I was honored to be the only Author Accelerator coach invited to their first ever in-person retreat for writers. Jennie Nash (founder and Chief Creative Officer), Laura Franzini (VP, Business Development) and I helped a group of twenty writers hone their craft. Four days of writerly talk was heavenly to me.
May is already a hot month where we live in Florida, so Hubby and I loved being in the cooler weather of southern Utah. We stayed in a small AirBnB cabin that was on a horse farm and visited Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park, shown here. I am so grateful our country protects these beautiful landscapes.
Even Sedona, AZ, which is normally hot in May, was unseasonably cool. We loved it!
Who needs to go to the gym when an eighteen pound cat naps on your arm while you’re trying to write?
I love supporting other writers and independent bookstores by attending author signings in their shops. Here I am with authors Lauren K. Denton and Jolina Petersheim at FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock, GA. I can’t wait to read these two new releases that I bought while I was there!
It’s so mysterious and eerie when the clouds are below the mountains. This is the view from my study at our cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia.
My retirement from Corporate America–complete with “reading glasses” cupcakes–took place a year ago. Here’s my post on how I wanted for years to one day be “immersed in a story world.” And now I am, both through my own writing and via my book coaching practice.
Author Accelerator Blog post: Immersed in a Story World
We had a light dusting of snow while at our cabin in the North Georgia mountains. I don’t mind because it won’t stay long. Snow also means that the fire inside seems that much cozier.
