Upcoming Writing Class: Flash Writing! 📝

Super excited to offer my Flash Writing class this summer! Mark your calendars now, and I’d love to have you and a friend join me for this online workshop, starting Friday, July 1, 2022.

Sign-ups are now open.

More info: Featured Online Flash Writing Workshop: In a Flash!

I’ll be using the book I wrote on this topic, which is also available and handy-dandy for all writers, whether you’re in the market for a class or for a prompt-filled read to get those words flowing.

In a Flash book

In a Flash e-book

Signed Copies

Upcoming Writing Class: Food Writing! 🍓

Who doesn’t love food?! 🥕🥔🥑

But what, exactly, is food writing?

It includes a diverse multitude of writing projects and styles to savor, including (but not limited to):

*fiction

*memoir

*review

*personal essay

*free-verse

*flash

*blog

*graphic novel

*recipe and/or cookbook

*haiku

No previous cooking or restaurant experience necessary for the class. If you relish words and the flavors of fabulous food (and haven’t we all?😋), this class welcomes you.

Join the nourishing fun in my next online writing class: Food Writing for Fun and Profit.

Starts: Friday, April 8, 2022. Sign-ups open now!

Blog: "Stalled? Here’s one way to jump-start your writing" 🎉

So honored to be a part of the conversation today at talented Kate Bradley-Ferrall’s marvelous blog. along with inspired author and writing instructor Sue Bradford Edwards. Check out how “writing in unfamiliar genres can reboot your writing and challenge you in interesting and inspiring ways.” 🎉📝

From Promising to Published: Cover Reveal! 🎉📔

Cover reveal time! @jessicabelldesign knocks it out of the park again!

Why, yes, there is both a dragon and a swan-diving swimmer in my forthcoming writing craft book.🎉📔

Arriving in May. More details about the book at: Vine Leaves . More details and other covers by my amazing designer at: Jessica Bell Design.

Mindset Medicine 📔📝

Mindset Medicine: A Must-Read for Motivation

Remember that feeling of opening the decorative cover of a new journal to the first crisp, fresh page, awaiting all of your musings, pens in myriad colors at the ready? That anticipation! That knowing that you’re not entirely sure where your written journey will take you but that it will surely take you on a good, introspective journey by book’s end.  

That’s the feeling, too, while reading award-winning author Mari McCarthy’s Mindset Medicine: A Journaling Power Self-Love Book.

Packed with authentic examples and can-do tips, Mindset Medicine explores a wide variety of life-applicable topics, from gratitude and respect from others to transforming your life through asking the right questions and establishing solid boundaries.

This book meets readers where they are in life and offers practical and positive next steps for setting goals step-by-step, elevating moods, and letting go of damaging thought-loops that keep a creator mired or stuck.

It’s like having your best friend who happens to be a life coach sitting with you and supporting your hopes and goals as you translate them into action steps.

Get your journals ready; you’ll surely fill them as you read (and, if you’re like me, reread—so many of these chapters invite a second and third visit) and explore an updated mindset that brings refreshment, renewed focus on your dreams, and a lot of self-knowledge along the way.  

Want to read more? Great news! This book, as well as books 1 and 2 in her Journaling Power Revolution Series) and other inspiring resources, such as workbooks, are available and ready for your perusal at: Amazon and createwritenow .

 Check out the other stops on Mari L.McCarthy’s Book Tour this month and next:

Featured Today on I've Got Questions 🥳

Great news! To celebrate my book birthday today, I’m featured on Clifford Garstang’s wonderful site, I’ve Got Questions.

It was a joy to talk about Writing It Real: Creating an Online Course for Fun and Profit as well as teaching, food, and other elements of the writing life.

Check out Cliff’s many excellent books as well as other interviews with talented authors.

It's Book Birthday Time! 🎉📚

I couldn’t resist staying up to ring in the book birthday of my next book: Writing It Real: Creating an Online Course for Fun and Profit! Woot! 🎉

Available at Amazon as well as signed copies at my Etsy shop, WritePathProductions.

Many thanks for celebrating with me and for all of your wondrous support!

Updates on the Writing It Real Series 🎉

🎉Just one more month until my book birthday @vine_leaves_press for Writing It Real: Creating an Online Course for Fun and Profit! Can't wait! Preorder today at Amazon.


It's even more awesome in person! 📕🎉@vine_leaves_press That holding the first printed copies feeling: priceless. Props to my amazing cover designer @jessicabelldesign . Couldn't resist sharing this moment with all of you. Writing It Real: Crafting a Reference Book that Sells has a book birthday in April, and it's available for preorder now at Amazon.

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 .