As most of you know, this is the time of year we have our annual pot luck gathering to celebrate 12 months of Gateless Writing Salons. We meet in the wilds of West-West for a potluck of delicious vittles and some sweet community around what we have created together through writing. Even if you only read more…
bestselling author Marshall Chapman, winter sunbathing at Santa Rosa Beach In the past six months over a dozen of my writers have happily trotted off to top agents, stuffed their hats with pub credits, signed book deals, gotten phone calls from Hollywood folks, gained audiences of over 2 million and basically sky-rocketed to the moon. read more…
These days of steamy late July always send me back to my first ever (terrifying) writing retreat when I was 24 and searching for the muse. Five hot highway hours, a tiny dormroom, a stolen laptop (I’ll tell if you ask), 10 fantastic women. Though I’d never written anything but journal entries, I burned up read more…
You worked you’re ass off. You managed endless hours at the keyboard staving off doubt and hunger and martinis and sometimes sex. You spent thousands on a kick-ass development editor and/or an expensive MFA program and/or workshops and conferences. You dotted your i’s and read the draft so many times you memorized it.
There’s my home! And somewhere in those gables and gothic pointed windows is my very own sweet spot! What’s yours? The most exciting thing is happening right now, and it has to do with one of my favorite longhaired, green-eyed fashionista writers and lifestylists: Desha Peacock. When Desha was hosting her award-winning television series, The read more…