Using art, dance, and journaling, psychotherapist Jo Ashworth helps groups delve into and release their inner selves. This forty-five year old mother of three (teenagers) has been married for twenty-one years and currently resides in Mandurah, Western Australia. Read on to learn about how she uses journaling in her work and her life. How long [...]

It isn’t surprising that a creative soul would find solace and pleasure in the written word. Carolina grew up in three countries but she has always known she wanted to be a writer. She is celebrating the success of her first book (The Invisible Mountain) with her partner and nine month old son

She lives in Madison, Wisconsin but travels to the sandy shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts where she teaches at her writers’ residence (One Writer’s Place). This author and journalist has been writing for thirty years along with raising a family of seven children (age four to twenty-three).

This early morning writer and daytime University Professor from New York has been writing for more than thirty years. The single mother of one has published seven novels; her latest Anna-in-Between.

Sarah Dunant wouldn’t dream of switching careers; unless she suddenly woke up with a voice — singing that is. Her latest release, Sacred Hearts is about a young woman in Renaissance Italy who is forced into a convent against her will and is determined to get out.

Her outlet for things wordy is divided between the act of writing and teaching others to write — a dual compliment. Hope Edelman lives in Topanga Canyon, California with her husband and two pre-teen daughters. You may know her best from the international bestseller Motherless Daughters.

Lauren has three books published under Goldstein and a young adult novel as Jessie Elliot. Her latest release is A Friend of the Family. Read on to learn more about it and this author’s writing habits.

Miami Book Fair

September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Its official name is the Miami Book Fair International and it is one of the biggest highlights in November (this year it runs from the 8th to the 15th) for the Miami, Florida area drawing in fine authors, bookies, bookie wannabes and aspiring authors for indoor and outdoor events.

To be a success in the different areas of our lives one has to find balance. It seems Joyce Hinnefeld has. She currently resides in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania where she divides her time being a mother, wife, writer and college professor; and still finds the energy to be physically active.

Magazine sales are down, newspaper sales are down, and book sales are down. Sure we all buy less in a recession and with the price of books. But the recession is not the only factor affecting book sales.

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