A Blog About Writing Books
Knowing the Field: Navigating Your Truth in Writing
How do you stay aligned with your own inner truth and purpose when you have a whole audience to consider? In this blog, I describe what I call Knowing the Field, a process of carefully considering the impact of your message on others while also staying true to your creativity, purpose and authenticity.
Why Hire a Book Coach?
A short history of book coaching and why most successful authors have a book coach. This blog also explores how a book coach is different from a writing group, editor, or workshop and the unique value a book coach will bring to your life.
Writing the First Draft of Your Book
There is something you need to know about the writing process…read on to learn more about what writing a first draft is really all about.
10 Reasons a Book is Good for Business
Read about the top ten reasons writing a book is good for your business.
Dating our Book Ideas
How do we go from many book ideas to one single idea we are willing to commit to?
Why I Wrote Birth Your Story
Today I wanted to offer you a behind the scenes look at why I wrote the forthcoming book Birth Your Story: Why Writing About Your Birth Matters, and what the process of writing this book was like for me.
Birth Books with Soul
Here are five of my favorite birth books with soul. Some of these cover the material-physical facts of birth (which is such important context for birthing families), but most tend toward the deeper emotional-cognitive-spiritual layers of the birthing journey. Because the latter is kind of my jam.
Oracle Journaling
Writing prompts can be a wonderful way to give direction to your writing but they don’t always resonate with where we are in the moment. Today I am going to offer another kind of prompting activity. To me, this one feels like collaborating with the divine to direct the course of my writing. If divine sounds too out there for you, let’s call it collaborating with our intuition or our subconscious.

