Subject: Celebrate You and Your (Hard) Work!

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Celebrate You and Your (Hard) Work

Hi Friend,

Last week I asked you to send me your announcements on your published book so I could celebrate you and your book. A few of you did! Yay!


If you missed the announcement, you'll get another chance. I'll do this celebration announcement again in a few months in September.


What I've noticed over the 30+ years I've been developing and working in the career of being a professional writer is that it's important to take stock and see how far you've come.


That way you know you can do this going forward because look at all you've done so far.


Flexing the celebration muscle signals to your subconscious that you got this!

Celebrate These Authors and Their Books

Starting with Jasper Ezekiel's debut book! 👏🏽👏🏽

Good, Clean Mania is a collection of three zines that Jasper Ezekiel put together over the years of 2020-2022.


These zines have been further edited into completion to be the book you hold in your hands today.


Topics of Jasper's poetry spans from things like God and love to a bad day at the hardware store to a connection with his cat right before she passed away.

Jasper Ezekiel is a young, queer poet from the Bay Area. He is happy to share his heart with the world for the first time. In his free time, he mostly does a wide variety of fiber crafts like knitting, crochet, and handspinning. He has been published before in The Berkeley Times, Milvia Street, and Pedestrian Press.

Moving on to T. A. Gaylord's debut book! 👏🏽👏🏽

In The Blackstone Twins Face Off vs. Destiny: Book One of The Blackstone Twins Saga by T. A. Gaylord, Zoe and Zachary Blackstone are twins, born into a world of madness and survival.


Having lost their mother, they are dependent on their grandmother to guide them and a misfit group of wishful dreamers, as they journey hundreds of miles, in hope of finding a cure for the Night Madness.


That mysterious affliction takes all men older than puberty.


Motherhood is the only known surefire cure.


Zachary is doomed to share this fate, but for a rumor, a possible cure.


His twin sister Zoe is determined to help him discover this one hope of relief, so they can possibly return to a normal life, a thing of which they've only read about in books.

T.A. Gaylord writes for both young adults and the young at heart, transporting them into a dystopian future world without technology, where the world of today has blown away, like dust from the high desert. Growing up in northern California, T. A. Gaylord has hiked miles of that terrain, and knows it's possibilities and it's dangers. It's beauty and amazing variability has always been an inspiration. As both a nature photographer and later as a caregiver for the disabled, T. A. Gaylord is familiar with both nature's beauty and nature's injustice, including it's unexpected and miraculous possibilities.

In Making it in Country Music: An Insider’s Look at the Industry by Rich Redmond with Jennifer Della’Zanna, Rich Redmond, drummer for Jason Aldean, teams up with Jennifer Della’Zanna to inspire those interested in jump-starting a music career or learning how the industry works.


This is a behind-the-scenes and fun-to-read book for country music fans or musicians.

Rich Redmond (https://richredmond.com/) and Jennifer Della’Zanna (https://www.jen-dellazanna.com/). The best nonfiction collaborators ever--a songwriter and a novelist. That’s our story, and we’re sticking to it!

Upcoming Event:


The Art of Transformational Writing:


Craft Your Meaningful (and Best Selling) Book

I believe in the power of creativity to help us create innovations that will change the world for the better.


Sometimes that innovation will be in the form of an amazing conversation, movie, or training. Or sometimes that innovation comes through a book.


If you have such a book in you, then I recommend you join us for this upcoming training.



The Art of Transformational Writing:


Craft Your Meaningful (and Best Selling) Book



Here are details:



Come nourish yourself with the wisdom of supportive and best selling and award-winning women authors, editors, publishers and writing coaches.


Learn the art, craft and business of writing a meaningful AND best-selling book that touches hearts and changes lives.


We invite you to come learn how you can harness your story, tap into your deep message AND also get your book into the hands of thousands of people.


Join us to receive tools and support for your journey of writing and successfully launching your future transformational book. 


Upcoming event: Friday, June 16, 10am Pacific

Online.


On June 16th, 10am-11:30am Pacific, join me to resource yourself with the wisdom of experienced women authors at our uplifting training.


This event is a fundraiser.


100% of sales for this training are donated directly to WriteGirl, a nonprofit that matches teen girls with professional women writers who mentor them.


writegirl.org/about — WriteGirl has received numerous awards and was honored by Michelle Obama with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award.


To register and for all the event detail, go here:


https://www.femfrequency.co/transformationalbook


Scholarships available. Just write me with the nonfiction book you're working on and why you want to attend this event, and I'll send you the complimentary ticket.


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Have a happy and creative week.



Best,

Beth


PS. Occasionally I support nonfiction authors and this panel is one of the ways I do that.



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Beth Barany
Creativity Coach for Writers

Teacher, Speaker, Workshop Facilitator


Creativity is the answer. 


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I not only teach and coach novelists, I am one too! 


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Award-winning science fiction & fantasy novelist.

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