Blisscraft Life With Christina Katz

Today we are honored to be hosting the illustrious and critically acclaimed Caroline Leavitt, who is now touring for her most recent novel, Is This Tomorrow. We are giving away three copies of the book to three winners. Here’s a little taste:

Introducing Caroline Leavitt

Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Pictures of You, which was also on the Best Books of 2011 from the San Francisco Chronicle, The Providence Journal, Bookmarks magazine and Kirkus Reviews. Is This Tomorrow is an Indie Next Pick.

Caroline is a book critic for the Boston Globe, People and the San Francisco Chronicle and she teaches writing privately and at UCLA and Stanford online. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, More, New York magazine, more.

Learn more at www.carolineleavitt.com.

Learn about This Is Tomorrow from Algonquin Books May 2013

In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a working mom. She finds her neighbors less than welcoming. Lewis yearns for his absent father, befriending the only other fatherless kids: Jimmy and Rose. One afternoon, Jimmy goes missing. The neighborhood—in the throes of Cold War paranoia—seizes the opportunity to further ostracize Ava and her son.

Years later, when Lewis and Rose reunite to untangle the final pieces of the tragic puzzle, they must decide: Should you tell the truth even if it hurts those you love, or should some secrets remain buried?

I asked Caroline three questions about our giveaway’s theme topic, self-expression:

1. Is self-expression an important part of your life today, why or why not?

I would go completely crazy if I couldn’t express myself or show the world who I really am. I learned early on, when I was a sickly, bullied little girl, that being able to escape in story, saved my life I so many wonderful ways. I spent years in high school trying to get my wild curly hair straight so I could be like everyone else. I ironed it, I used chemicals, I even once Scotch taped my whole head to try and set it straight (it was a disaster)! But no matter what I did, I couldn’t look like others and to my amazement when I let my hair do what it wanted, it was the first time I ever got compliments on it!

When I first started to write, I tried to emulate the masters and my work was sort of stiff. But when I sat down and poured out what was haunting me, I never thought anyone else would want to read it. I wrote it for myself, but I ended up selling it and it became a sensation. I’ve found that by being brave enough to go into some of those dark places, I can understand both myself and the world much better.

2. What does self-expression mean to you and how do you do it in the world?

I grew up being made to feel that who and what I was was wrong: I was Jewish in a Christian working class neighborhood. I was smart in a high school where only 10 percent went on to college. And I was sickly. It wasn’t until my senior year of high school that I began to celebrate who I was, to dress flamboyantly, to talk about wanting to be a writer, and to steel myself against the negative comments I would hear.

When I got out in the world, I began to realize that the more I was myself, the more honest and brave I was, the more I could really connect with people. It’s been my honor to talk to people at readings about things that would have shamed me before, and have people come up to afterwards and tell me that they felt the same way and had always been too afraid to talk about it–but now they would! We owe it to everyone to show who we are. To share it.

3. How does your self-expression impact the world—your family, your friends, your readers, and everyone else?

I think being able to be brave and really open up to people, sometimes jumpstarts others to do the same. That old chestnut “the truth will set you free” is really true! I, of course, express myself through my work, but I also express myself in the clothing I wear, the cowboy boots I have to have on, the way I let my hair be wild and curly, even as hair stylists trail after me and beg me to tame it!

Not everyone likes me or my work–but I have learned it is a much more joyful life for me to not hide who I am or what I want, but to be fully present all the time. The most wonderful thing for me is when I get emails from readers or readers come up to me and tell me that they felt my books were speaking directly to them. In digging deeply into what haunts or obsesses me, I had reached others and impacted their lives. What could be more magical than that?

And Now, Your Turn…

You remember how this works right?

Please read the complete rules at least once!

I ask you a question.

You answer in the comments for your chance to win a book each day.

Please just respond once, even if you make a typo.

Answer in the comments in 50-200 words (no less and no more to qualify to win one of today’s books).

Do you dig deep? Are you brave? Do you go into your dark places? Do you think you will ever share them?

Ready, set, comment! I will hold the drawing tomorrow and post the results here in my blog.

Thanks for participating in the Writer Mama Every-Day-In-May Book Giveaway!

And thanks for spreading the word. We will be giving away great books by wonderful women authors all month.

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Heather Vogel Frederick is a real gem of a person and a blast to read no matter what your age. My family is working our way through her Mother-Daughter Book Club series and enjoying every minute. Please help me welcome Heather!

Introducing Heather Vogel Frederick

After a 20-year career as a journalist, Heather Vogel Frederick decided it was high time to fulfill her lifelong dream of writing fiction for young readers. Today, she’s the author of over a dozen books, including Once Upon a Toad and the popular Mother-Daughter Book Club and Spy Mice series. Heather’s work spans many genres, from picture books to fantasy, historical fiction, fractured fairy tales, and contemporary realism and has been honored both nationally and internationally and translated into a number of languages.  A former staff reporter and children’s book review editor for The Christian Science Monitor, Heather has also written for the New York Times, Child, Family Life, and Publishers Weekly, where she was a contributing editor for many years. Learn more at http://www.heathervogelfrederick.com/.

Learn about Spy Mice: The Black Paw

In Book 1 of the newly repackaged Spy Mice series, a savvy secret agent mouse teams up with a kid who has superspy aspirations.

Fifth-grader Oz Levinson has always dreamed of being a spy, just like his hero James Bond. In real life though, Oz’s 007 moves are seriously lacking, and he’s a target for bullies. Then he stumbles upon Glory Goldenleaf, a secret agent mouse based in Washington D.C.’s International Spy Museum.

Glory is a tiny spy with a huge problem: The evil rat Roquefort Dupont has kidnapped her father, and she needs to launch a rodent rescue! Recruited to lend a helping hand, Oz and his new friend D.B. are swept into an exciting world of small-scale espionage. Armed with high-tech gadgets, pigeon power, and a whole lot of cheese, Glory and her team won’t rest until her father is rescued and justice is done.

Learn about For Your Paws Only

In Book 2 of the Spy Mice series, adventure is in store when a secret agent mouse and her fifth-grade friends travel to New York City.Glory Goldenleaf, spy mouse extraordinaire, is assigned her first solo Silver Skateboard mission—to tail the evil rat Roquefort Dupont all the way to the Big Apple. He’s paws-deep in a diabolical plot that could affect the international rodent community, and Glory’s determined to find out what it is.

Joining Glory in the big city is fifth-grader Oz Levinson, who’s a finalist in a junior bake-off contest. He and his friend D.B. will be competing against the best bakers in the country on live TV! But when Glory gets mouse-napped in Manhattan, Oz and D.B. need to stage a rescue mission. It will take all of their spy skills to save their favorite mouse, stop the rats’ dastardly scheme—and pull off the perfect dessert.

Learn about Goldwhiskers

In Book 3 of the newly repackaged Spy Mice series, the secret agents head to London—and uncover an international mystery.Oz Levinson is beyond excited when his family decides to spend winter vacation in England. The chance to tour London (a.k.a. James Bond’s home base) and get a break from the school bullies will make this a very jolly holiday indeed. Even better, his friend Glory Goldenleaf—world-renowned spy mouse—is along for the ride.

Soon though, their vacation turns into a business trip. A series of jewel thefts have left the police baffled, and Glory has her eye on some pocket-size suspects. It looks like Goldwhiskers—the richest rat in the world—and some familiar rodent villains have their paw-prints all over this. Then the rat thieves go after the big cheese: the Crown Jewels. In a race to return England’s national treasures to safety, Glory Goldenleaf, international mouse of mystery, and her friend Oz are on the case!

I asked Heather three questions about our giveaway’s theme topic, self-expression:

1. Is self-expression an important part of your life today, why or why not?

Self-expression is as natural to each of us as breathing. In fact, it’s basically the first thing we do when we enter this world. What is an infant’s cry, if not self-expression? We are literally born primed to create. Each one of us has unique gifts, unique talents we’re meant to share, and mine happens to be writing. Is it an important part of my life today? Absolutely. I get restless when I’m not writing. If I’m between stories, even if I have no clear end in mind I’m still scribbling things that come to me—lines of dialogue, character’s names, snippets of description—into notebooks and onto napkins at restaurants or stray pieces of paper fished from my purse. Writing is simply what I do; it’s how I make sense of the world.

2. What does self-expression mean to you and how do you do it in the world?

After every book I finish, I nearly always think, “That’s it; I’m done. I’m out of ideas for good.” I’m sincerely convinced of it. And then, after a while, the restlessness sets in and a story begins to nibble at the edge of consciousness. It starts as a drop or two, grows to a trickle, and soon it’s a deluge that can’t be ignored and I’m off and running again.

I can tell you a funny story about how one of my books came into being. We have fabulous berries here in Oregon, and I was at my favorite farm one beautiful summer day picking boysenberries for a pie.  Like most writers I know, I’m constantly noodling around with words no matter where I am or what else I’m doing, and all of a sudden it struck me what an odd word “boysenberry” was. “There really should be a girlsenberry, too,” I thought. From there my mind leaped directly to “babyberry,” and since I was planning to go home and make a pie, naturally that expanded into Babyberry Pie, which ended up being my first picture book.

3. How does your self-expression impact the world—your family, your friends, your readers, and everyone else?

As a writer, you obviously hope that what comes from your heart will touch other hearts. There’s no greater joy than hearing from a reader, and I’ve been tremendously fortunate in this regard. As for family and friends, their support for what is often an odd lifestyle—we literary types can be distracted, even peevish creatures, and my family has endured a great deal of pizza over the years when I’m on deadline—means the world. So does their encouragement and praise. The very best compliment I’ve ever received was from my son Ian, who was in middle school at the time. After he finished reading my book The Voyage of Patience Godspeed, he came to me and said, “Mom, that last part was so exciting I forgot you wrote it!” It doesn’t get much better than that.

And Now, Your Turn…

You remember how this works right?

Please read the complete rules at least once!

I ask you a question.

You answer in the comments for your chance to win a book each day.

Please just respond once, even if you make a typo.

Answer in the comments in 50-200 words (no less and no more to qualify to win one of today’s books).

Where do your best ideas come from? How do you track your ideas? Do you think you could ever run out of ideas?

Ready, set, comment! I will hold the drawing tomorrow and post the results here in my blog.

Thanks for participating in the Writer Mama Every-Day-In-May Book Giveaway!

And thanks for spreading the word. We will be giving away great books by wonderful women authors all month.

View the complete list of authors and books.

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Today is my turn to be the featured author and I’m giving away my entire collection of books and e-books—as well as a Writer Mama bumper sticker—to one lucky winner.

Introducing Christina Katz

Christina Katz, AKA The Writer Mama and The Prosperous Writer, is the author of three books from Writer’s Digest: The Writer’s Workout, Get Known Before the Book Deal, and Writer Mama. Her writing career tips and parenting advice appear regularly in national, regional, and online publications.

A “gentle taskmaster” over the past decade to over a thousand writers, Christina’s students go from unpublished to published, build professional writing career skills, and increase their creative confidence over time. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in English from Dartmouth College.

Known as a champion of mom writers, Christina is a popular speaker on creative career growth and writer prosperity. She keynotes for writing conferences, literary events, MFA writing programs, and libraries. She lives near Wilsonville, Oregon with her husband, her daughter, and far too many pets.

Learn about The Art Of Making Time For Yourself, Inspiration For Moms

This e-book makes a great gift for a mom-to-be or a new mom, for a mom who is choosing to stay home with her kids, or for a mom who is trying to juggle work and home life, for a WAHM, and even for a veteran mom with kids in school or leaving the nest.

Moms who read this book will gain:

• Inspired ideas for creating more you-time
• Multiple approaches to finding time no matter much time you have
• Enduring, encouraging advice about the benefits of taking better care of yourself
• A clear understanding of the meanings of self-love and deservingness
• Less admiration for self-martyrdom and more admiration for self-care
• A complete list of resources to inspire self-care
• A questionnaire to encourage you to take more time for you

Written expressly for moms, this e-book collection is written in short, inspirational selections.

Learn about Write For Regional Parenting Publications For Fun & Profit!

Writers who read this book will gain:

• An overview of how the process of writing for and earning from regional parenting publications works
• Complete how-to instructions for writing for and mass-submitting to regional parenting publications
• Insights into what sets successful RPP writers apart from those who don’t succeed
• A clear understanding of what it takes to create and maintain a writing business
• A better understanding of what professional writing looks like in day-to-day terms
• A whole new respect for hardworking parent writers

Written expressly for busy parents, this e-book guide is written in short, instructional chapters like a mini-workbook. Readers who follow the advice in this e-book will find themselves successfully writing and submitting articles to regional parenting publication editors in a professional manner.

Learn about The Writer’s Workout, 366 Tips, Tasks and Techniques From Your Writing Career Coach

The Writer’s Workout is like having a personal trainer for your brain every day of the year.

In the age of information overload, writers need the ability to focus and feel satisfied at the keyboard on a daily basis. The Writer’s Workout greets you each day of the year with fresh advice that helps writers coach themselves to produce an impressive body of published work, whether in print or online.

You’ll learn manageable, no-nonsense techniques for every aspect of your writing career from getting organized to connecting with your audience to relationship building.

The Writer’s Workout contains 366 tips for writers in every genre on how to:

• Make your writing as strong and powerful as possible.
• Pitch and sell your work at every opportunity.
• Overcome rejection to come back better than ever.
• Promote your work and build an audience.
• Learn how to balance your creative life with your daily life.

Veteran writing coach Christina Katz draws on her knowledge from more than a decade in the business.

With her no-more-excuses wisdom, you’ll find your stride and motivate yourself to career-long publishing success.

The Writer’s Workout gives you substantial suggestions every day to help you build a robust, unique writing career.

Learn about Discover Your Platform Potential, A Self-study Author Platform Workbook

An eight-chapter companion workbook for Get Known Before The Book Deal, Use Your Personal Strengths To Grow An Author Platform also by Christina Katz.

Learn the keys to:

• Uncovering your strengths
• Making you and your work visible
• Promoting your work authentically
• Connecting with readers
• Creating a lasting, profitable platform
• Finding your niche
• Understanding your unique platform dynamic

This workbook contains:

• Lessons that summarize key platform strategies
• Field trips to explore what others are doing
• Brainstorming exercises to help you consider your options
• Key considerations that will save you time and money
• Reading assignments
• Writing assignments

Finish the workbook in eight weeks, eight days, or eight hours! It’s up to you.

Learn about Author Mama, How I Became A Published Author & How You Can Too!

Have you ever considered writing a nonfiction book?

Have you ever wondered if you have what it takes to become a published author?

What would the process be like?

What are the steps?

What do publishers do for authors?

How long would it take from start to finish?

Can you make any decent money?

Should you self-publish or traditionally publish?

Now you can find out the answers to these questions and more when you order my e-book, Author Mama, right here.

In Author Mama, I share my personal experience walking through the traditional book-deal process and book-writing experience and offer tips along the way, addressing common myths and challenging writers to get ready for the marathon that is writing a book.

Learn about Get Known Before The Book Deal, Use Your Personal Strengths To Grow An Author Platform

Before you can land a book deal—before you can even attract the interest of agents and editors—you need to be visible. How do you become visible? You develop a platform, or a way of reaching your readers. Everybody can develop a platform, and this book shows you how to do it while you’re still writing.

This book offers:

• A step-by-step approach to creating, growing, and nurturing a platform
• An economical approach to self-promotion (no need to spend thousands)
• A clear way to uncover your strengths and weaknesses as an author
• The strategies that are essential (or not) to online promotion
• A philosophy of authorship that leaves you confident, empowered, and equally partnered with agents, editors, and publishers (instead of waiting to be discovered)
• A diverse set of tools and methods for getting known (not just web-based tools or ideas for extroverts)

After you read this book, you’ll be able to answer the inevitable question: What’s your platform?” You’ll learn the hows and whys of becoming visible and how to cultivate visibility from scratch. Best of all, you won’t need any previous knowledge or experience to get started.

Growing a writing career isn’t just about landing one book deal and then scrambling like crazy. There is a more strategic and steady way to lay the groundwork so you can avoid scrambling altogether—and Get Known Before the Book Deal is the only comprehensive book that shows you how.

Learn about Writer Mama, How To Raise A Writing Career Alongside Your Kids

As a mom, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. But you’d also like to make some money doing something you enjoy. How do you get the best of both worlds? Writer Mama by experienced freelancer Christina Katz tells you how. You can start a stay-at-home freelance writing career tailored to fit your family and lifestyle.

Writer Mama will answer all your questions about how to get started, in realistic, easy-to-follow steps. While conversational and easy-to-read, this book also does a lot of hard work for you. It gives you practical advice and exercises that help you get started in a matter of weeks. You’ll get tips on how to:

• begin with the easiest routes to publication for moms
• network with other writer mamas, editors, and agents
• write cover letters and queries
• choose your own writing specialty
• create a web presence
• set up a home office
• make time for yourself, your kids, and your writing

You’ll love the short chapters, sidebars, and exercises that let you get the information you need in small doses that fit into your busy schedule. Plus this book was written to grow with you. Once you master the skills of being an article writer, it teaches you how to pitch a nonfiction book idea and explore other areas of writing.

I asked myself three questions about our giveaway’s theme topic, self-expression:

1. Is self-expression an important part of your life today, why or why not?

Since I am the one who came up with these questions, I am sure it will surprise no one that self-expression IS important to me. I feel like self-expression is the central force in my life and my family’s life and my work life, although I can’t say that it has always come naturally or easily. Maybe this is why I feel like I never tire of the topic and maybe this is also why I chose self-expression as the theme topic of this month-long giveaway. Self-expression is where the joy is, for me.

2. What does self-expression mean to you and how do you do it in the world?

I believe that each person on this planet is brimming with wisdom for the collective, but our biggest challenge is getting that wisdom out and sharing it with each other. I feel like the best way to serve the whole is for each individual to find productive methods communicating. My primary form of self-expression is writing. I also enjoy teaching, pitching, coaching, blogging, publishing, and encouraging others.

Obviously there are many ways to express yourself. I find that restocking the creative pond is an important part of self-expression for me. So a lot of what you will find me doing when it doesn’t seem like I am doing anything in particular relates to connecting with my deepest instincts, unlearning whatever it is time to unlearn, and heading for the nearest hot-spring spa for a soak and a massage. For pleasure, I enjoy reading, singing, acting, decorating, antiquing, gardening, collaging, flower arranging, and hanging out with my family. I also like watching funny sitcoms and romantic comedies.

3. How does your self-expression impact the world—your family, your friends, your readers, and everyone else?

I have learned to stop caring so much about how others respond to me and to instead pay more attention to what wants to happen next. When I listen to myself, and trust my instincts, I feel like I can’t go wrong. I try to encourage others to follow their inner lead, as well, not just to follow my lead.

After all of these years teaching, I feel like I have some pretty good techniques up my sleeves, and when I do my best work, I feel like it works for all of us, and that includes me, too.

Like everyone, my story is constantly evolving and unfolding and I’m always making adjustments as I go along. I find that when I focus on making good things happen, they do. If I can free myself a little more each day, then I can help others do the same. And that’s good enough for me.

And Now, Your Turn…

You remember how this works right?

Please read the complete rules at least once!

I ask you a question.

You answer in the comments for your chance to win a book each day.

Please just respond once, even if you make a typo.

Answer in the comments in 50-200 words (no less and no more to qualify to win one of today’s books).

Are you confidently creative? Why or why not? What would you create if you had no fear? What do you dare to do with your creativity? And who do you serve?

Ready, set, comment! I will hold the drawing tomorrow and post the results here in my blog.

Thanks for participating in the Writer Mama Every-Day-In-May Book Giveaway!

And thanks for spreading the word. We will be giving away great books by wonderful women authors all month.

View the complete list of authors and books.

View the giveaway Pinterest board

I am very pleased to announce that my first e-book of collected inspirational articles is now available in PDF!

If you are already spending plenty of time with yourself, you probably do not need this e-book, mom.

But if you are not, you might find yourself feeling resentful, discouraged, and unhappy in the rest of your life. These feelings can sneak up on even the most conscientious mom, when she forgets to put her own self-care first.

The Art Of Making Time For Yourself is interactive inspiration that will have you dialoging with yourself and others about your needs and wants.

By the time you are done reading this e-book and answering the questions it contains, you will find yourself planning your next getaway and feeling great about it, because making time for yourself is healthy and necessary whether you are a mom or not.

My articles about moms making time have appeared in dozens of magazines across North America for the past thirteen years. I have appeared on Good Morning America discussing the topic. And now I am inspiring moms everywhere to take time for themselves and to take up the torch in encouraging other moms to do the same.

Self-sacrifice and martyrdom are no longer a part of a mom’s job description. I don’t know a mom who is completely content with the state of the world today. But until we can right the state within ourselves, we can’t offer our best to any external cause.

I hope that The Art Of Making Time For Yourself will remind every mom that she is already enough and that she deserves happiness and personal satisfaction today, no matter what the state of the world.

We can all do a better job championing ourselves and our families if we feel happy and self-confident.

Self-care today; change the world tomorrow. The Art Of Making Time For Yourself will remind you of who you were born to be and all that you have to offer.

Thanks for checking it out and spreading the word!

Today I’d like to welcome a timely author. Erika Robuck’s publisher timed the release of Call Me Zelda to happen alongside the new Great Gatsby film. Smart! Today Erika is giving away a copy of both her latest book and her last book, Hemingway’s Girl, please help me welcome her!

Introducing Erika Robuck

Erika Robuck self-published her first novel Receive Me Falling. Her novel, Hemingway’s Girl, was a Target Emerging Author Pick, a Vero Beach Bestseller, and has been sold in two foreign markets to date. Her next novel, Call Me Zelda, publishes on May 7, 2013, and begins in the years “after the party” for Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Erika writes about and reviews historical fiction at her blog, Muse, and is a contributor to fiction blog, Writer Unboxed. She is also a member of the Historical Novel Society and the Hemingway Society. Learn more about Erika at www.erikarobuck.com.

Learn about Call Me Zelda from NAL/Penguin, May 2013

From New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and queen of the Jazz Age, seeming to float on champagne bubbles above the mundane cares of the world. But to those who truly knew them, the endless parties were only a distraction from their inner turmoil, and from a love that united them with a scorching intensity.

When Zelda is committed to a Baltimore psychiatric clinic in 1932, vacillating between lucidity and madness in her struggle to forge an identity separate from her husband, the famous writer, she finds a sympathetic friend in her nurse, Anna Howard. Held captive by her own tragic past, Anna is increasingly drawn into the Fitzgeralds’ tumultuous relationship. As she becomes privy to Zelda’s most intimate confessions, written in a secret memoir meant only for her, Anna begins to wonder which Fitzgerald is the true genius. But in taking ever greater emotional risks to save Zelda, Anna may end up paying a far higher price than she intended….

Check our Erika’s YouTube trailer for Call Me Zelda.

Learn about Hemingway’s Girl from NAL/Penguin, September 2012

In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet, the daughter of an American fisherman and a Cuban woman, knows hunger. Her struggle to support her family following her father’s death leads her to a bar and bordello, where she bets on a risky boxing match…and attracts the interest of two men: world-famous writer, Ernest Hemingway, and Gavin Murray, one of the WWI veterans who are laboring to build the Overseas Highway.

I asked Erika three questions about our giveaway’s theme topic, self-expression:

1. Is self-expression an important part of your life today, why or why not?

It is. For better or worse, we are all the stars of our own Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, blogs, websites, Instagram feeds… It’s no substitute for human interaction, but it can be a valuable tool to share ourselves with our friends, our family, and other writers and readers. I’ve made new connections from the ways I share myself online. When the connection is true, it almost always leads to face to face meetings and real bonds, and I value the way self-expression through social media has enhanced my life.

2. What does self-expression mean to you and how do you do it in the world?

To me, communication is at the heart of self-expression. As a writer, words are my first and most comfortable form of expression. From notes to novels, I like the time and thought that go into writing, the chances we have at revision, and the way words on paper create permanence.

Second to writing, I enjoy photography. I love being able to snap photos of little moments of wonder with my children, my friends, or nature. When a single photo can communicate what a paragraph would, I prefer to let the images speak for themselves.

3. How does your self-expression impact the world—your family, your friends, your readers, and everyone else?

Specific to my writing, I’ve been surprised by and pleased with its impact on my relationship with other writers. Whether someone further on the path is reaching back to help me along, or I’m able to inspire and assist another who isn’t where I am, I’ve found a lot of generosity and willingness to help in my writing circles that inspires me to pay it forward.

And Now, Your Turn…

You remember how this works right?

Please read the complete rules at least once!

I ask you a question.

You answer in the comments for your chance to win a book each day.

Please just respond once, even if you make a typo.

Answer in the comments in 50-200 words (no less and no more to qualify to win one of today’s books).

Who is your favorite author who is no longer with us? If you could meet one deceased author and have a conversation with them, who would it be?

Ready, set, comment! I will hold the drawing tomorrow and post the results here in my blog.

Thanks for participating in the Writer Mama Every-Day-In-May Book Giveaway!

And thanks for spreading the word. We will be giving away great books by wonderful women authors all month.

View the complete list of authors and books.

View the giveaway Pinterest board