If you're a storyteller, helping you is my full-time job. As a book shaman, I collaborate with novelists and short fiction writers to develop and finish the best stories they can tell. My brand is: Better stories make better people.®
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What Are You Reading? October 2026 Edition
Merry Halloween 🎃 and Happy Samhain 🔥 whether you celebrate or not. 😈
Half this past month got lost under a blizzard of Repatha side effects. Blech. 🤒 The patriarchy failed me. I thought they tested drugs to avoid side effects for whit...
Assemble Your Team
Photo by Vlad Hilitanu on Unsplash
This is part three of a series of posts that’s planned to be seven, but will probably be lots more than that as I make (more) mistakes and learn as I act as my own guinea pig planning a brand new book (Sm...
Draw Your Story Sketch
Photo by Kit (formerly ConvertKit) on Unsplash
This is part two of a series of posts that’s planned to be seven, but will probably be lots more than that as I make (more) mistakes and learn as I act as my own guinea pig planning a brand ne...
Write Your Guiding Blurb
Photo by Santa Barbara on Unsplash
All the best things do … begin as mistakes. At least that’s the story I'm telling myself right now. 😉 It’ll be fun. 😅
Part of what (I think) distinguishes me as the Book Shaman® is that I am a writer...
Unpacking DFWcon 2026
Nasrin, Madeline, Estee, Dr. Bob, and Yours Truly [Henry is MIA pitching his novel at the time of this photo]
Six of us (clients, writing partners, and me) snuck into DFWcon26 together this year. And a grand time was had by all. Of course,...
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