Pre-Order Time! 📚

Super excited to announce that the pre-order for my next book is all set!

Whether you’ve never taught an online class before or if you’ve been an educator for years, if you’ve ever thought about launching your own online course or brushing up on your teaching skills to bring extra pizzazz to your classroom this book is for you.

I’ve packed it with tips, advice, exercises, humor, and lots of can-do motivation to inspire the class-creation and class-launching experiences from choosing a theme through syllabus creation through marketing and more! Also, it’ll make the perfect gift for the favorite educator friend in your life this holiday season.

To pre-order and learn more: Amazon Paperback and Amazon E-book .

Vine Leaves Press .

A Marvelous Microfiction Anthology 🤗📕

Thrilled to have my work included in this anthology of rad 50-word stories among so many awesome flash fictionists.

The book will officially drop in November by Vine Leaves Press @vine_leaves_press , with pre-ordering now at Amazon.

But this book for your writing, for your favorite writer, and/or for your fiction class or workshop--they'll love it and find inspiration for their own flashes.

❄Featured in Snowflakes in a Blizzard ❄

Pleased to share that my craft book, Photography for Writers, is featured this week in Snowflakes in a Blizzard, a wonderful book blog.

Learn more about the blog as well as check out their other great featured books here and here.

✨Switch it up with Journaling Power! ✨

I’m pleased to be a part of talented Mari L. McCarthy’s WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour today. I love getting to share info about books that make a difference in writers’ lives. 😊📚 Ta-da, and read on!

“Switch it up with Journaling Power!”

 

“Life can only be understood backwards,

but it must be lived forwards.”

--Soren Kierkegaard

One of the coolest aspects of teaching creative writing and as a nonfiction writer myself is connecting with talented authors whose work inspires my own writing journey.

I’ve lost track of how many writers I’ve recommended Journaling Power: How To Create the Happy, Healthy, Life You Want to Live, because it’s the kind of book that I recommend so frequently to writers.

No matter what genres my students write—from poetry to nonfiction and novels to flash fiction and screenwriting—the wise tips and advice offered in Journaling Power sustain a hearty writing process with insights for all writers. It encourages writers to switch up their current thoughts to make and meet goals right now, right where writers are in their lives.

From mindful eating to reversing years of repressed emotions and from overcoming the Inner Critic to positive self-talk and encouraging your Inner Coach, Journaling Power is both warmly inviting and unafraid to tackle the big opportunities for development and healing that are present through an ongoing journaling practice.   

Spend time with Journaling Power and two things become immediately clear: 1. Mari has an authenticity and a zest for living and she’s candid about how journaling boosted her own life journey that has had significant bumps and shifts in plans, such as MS and her long-ago music teacher’s careless comments (you’ll learn more about both in her book), and 2. Mari’s enthusiasm for helping others live their best lives is inspiring and ever-present in her writing, in her courses, and on her website.

Lucky readers!

Journaling Power is packed not only with personal anecdotes and motivating quotes (including the one that opens this blog) that will interest readers, but also with journaling exercises that leap off the page and spark writers’ pens.  

No wonder it has won numerous writing awards, including a 2018 COVR Visionary Health and Healing Award, a 2019 NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite, and a 2019 Nonfiction Authors Association Silver Award.

Grab a journal, a pen, and a copy of Journaling Power today. It’ll inspire one of the best gifts you can offer yourself and your writing: the promise of your growth from this day forward.

As Mari says, and it’s brilliant advice: #JustWRITEON!

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Journaling Power is available in print and e-book on Amazon, Create Write Now, and Barnes and Noble. 

You can also add it to your GoodReads reading list.

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About the Author, Mari L. McCarthy

Mari L. McCarthy, Founder and Inner Work Tour Guide of CreateWriteNow.com shows curious health-conscious people how to use Journaling For The Health Of It®️ to heal the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual issues in their tissues and to know and grow their True Self. She’s the multi-award-winning author of Journaling Power: How To Create The Happy, Healthy Life You Want To Live and Heal Your Self With Journaling Power. She’s also created 20+ Journaling For The Health Of It® Inner Journey Workbooks that include Who Am I?, Declutter Your Life In 28 Days, and Take Control Of Your Health In 24 Days. 

Find her online at: 

Website: http://createwritenow.com/ 

Facebook: http://facebook.com/CreateWriteNow 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwtlBKKHXAfl_fZjLtOGMHA

My Poem Featured :)

Cool news this week: I was honored that a poem from my This Passing Fever collection was chosen and read online by Lee Ann Berardi Smith as a part of an awesome poetry project. Catch it here.

Care to get your own signed copy of This Passing Fever? I’ve got you. Here.

Want to learn more about writing poetry? I’ve got that, too: here.

I’m in the midst of exciting music collaborations with the poems. More details later this year. Stay tuned!