The Womenpower Movement is (re)born!

I am launching a new initiative because because, you know me, I like to launch initiatives.

The latest, greatest idea from Christina Katz is The Womenpower Movement.

Like many ideas I have been pulling together and dusting off this year, this idea is not new for me.

I have been teaching writing-for-publication skills for writers since 2001. You have heard this a hundred times by now, but did you also know that before I became a professional writer, I used to facilitate a women’s empowerment circle in my living room?

It’s true. I was a tie-dye skirt wearing, drum-banging, caffeine-free hippie for a while there. And you know what? It was awesome and I would not trade that period of my life for anything. It was very healing and profound, and it changed the trajectory of my life.

Then I met my husband, got married, moved to the Pacific Northwest from the Southwest, had a baby, and decided to get serious about my writing career.

Fast forward a few years until I started offering writing-for-publication skills for writers based on what I had learned. This eventually morphed into offering writing skills from beginner to book deal. And then my teaching morphed into offering writing skills from beginner to become your own imprint.

As I grew as a journalist and author, I started expanding my services to include writing challenges, writing career classes & training groups, books, e-books, and workbooks, and phone consultations.

And that’s where I am today. I am my own imprint now. This means I still partner with folks in traditional publishing, but I also get it — I am 100% responsible for producing my own writing and publishing success, just as I have been saying to all of you for years, and I encourage all women writers to view their career trajectories this way.

So, the first initiative of The Womenpower Movement is encouraging women to be more expressive not only as professionals but in every area of their lives. This is the part where I get to take everything I have learned thus far about how to express yourself to yourself, then to small audiences, and eventually to global audiences, and share it with you.

I am excited! And I am going to start by weaving this initiative into what I already do, beginning with the Every-Day-In-May Writer Mama Book Giveaway LINK.

Therefore the theme for this year’s giveaway is expressiveness. How do women express ourselves, what prevents us from expressing ourselves, and how can we become even more expressive and transform the world through our individual contributions?

I have always been passionate about this topic, ever since I was a little girl. So I hope you will join me in supporting The Womenpower Movement and by participating in The Writer Mama Every-Day-In-May Book Giveaway LINK!

There is much more to come. So if you have fallen off my e-zine list for any reason, now would be a good time to subscribe or resubscribe to my e-zine, so you won’t miss any important announcements about the upcoming giveaway.

Thanks for participating! And get ready to express yourself more in May! We’re going to have some fun, as usual.