Hey there, Hope you are having a happy steamy summer so far!! The muse tends to get restless during the summer, and I’ve had a lot of people asking when when when is the next Gateless Writing Retreat??? And YES! we are offering a staggeringly beautiful Indian summer retreat: September 10th-13th at Nicole Birkholzer’s stunning […]
Happy New Year!! I hope this finds you warm and cozy. Last time I wrote a blog post (lo these many months ago), Gateless writer Susan Strecker was launching Night Blindness, her debut. The book was a huge success, and your pre-orders and notes of encouragement set her on her happy journey as an author. Thank […]
I have a story to tell you. Something incredible happened last fall. A girl who had never published anything before, had virtually no social media presence or any fame sold her book. And she sold big. The book came to her like a downpour, it wrote itself between picking up kids and lacrosse practices, playdates […]
With Labor Day behind us, and the kids back at school, I like to drag summer out by thinking of my peak experience. And of course, for the summer of 2014, it was the week I ran away and fell in love. The third week in July, eight talented, sassy, beautiful, creative women (and Jeff […]
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. […]