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. […]
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 […]
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. (more…)
Most of you know that seven years ago after some wild happy success in the publishing industry, I had a crazy dream: I wanted to make new writers into authors. By leveraging some kick-ass studies on creative brain science, I began working with writers to build their work up, rather than breaking it down. I […]
Last week was my birthday and as a gift to me: I lazed around for two whole days and wrote whatever I wanted to. I didn’t check email or even get on my phone much, I just let myself go wild on the page. It was unbelievably luxurious and actually things happened in my writing […]