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Hello, Reader,
This month has been much better than the previous one—those of you who have been subscribers for a while know what I’m talking about! The TLDR is that we spent the holidays and part of January in and out of the hospital and dealt with major house issues, including a truly horrible sewer issue. So the bar was pretty low.
Here are the highlights from this month:
- We started welcoming new future authors into my six-month program, Idea-to-Draft! The cohort starts in April and we have six spots left. If you’d like to explore joining, I invite you to schedule a free clarity call—we’d love to explore your book idea with you.
- I finished my book proposal draft at a hefty 20K+ words, and I’ll be sending it out to agents starting next week (!).
- I got my passport just in time for a trip to London, where our wonderful marketing coordinator, Rita, and I will be attending the London Book Fair. (If you’re in London and interested in joining a meetup there, let me know! I’m considering organizing one.)
- My husband finally, finally got online access to renew his very-expired residency here in Portugal. It’s been such a mess immigration-wise, and he hasn’t been legally allowed to leave the country.
I’m just . . . happy. Life is really good right now.
That’s my joy list for February so far. How about you? What’s a highlight of yours from the last month? Hit reply and share. I love hearing from you!
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From the writer’s room
How to Rethink The Rules That Define Your Success
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New Year, New Book: How to Make 2026 Your Author Era
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Top Book Awards in 2026—for Nonfiction Authors
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Featured authors
Happy bookversary to our amazing clients! It’s incredible to get to celebrate the work these authors put out into the world, and to see the continuing impact their books make long after their release. Learn more about our fantastic four of February.
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Dr. Luissa Kiprono, Push, Then Breath
—fetal medicine specialist & author
From fond memories of growing up in her native Romania and the social changes of the communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu to shocking captivity and abuse at the hands of her father in the United States, Dr. Kiprono details her eventual escape to freedom, independence, and success.
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David Morales, American Familia
—health-care executive & author
Told as a conversation between David and his two sons, American Familia is David’s story of growing up in rural poverty in Puerto Rico and urban poverty in the United States, detailing hopeful and transformative life lessons along the way.
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Regina Lawless, Do You
—author, speaker & spiritual teacher
Before her husband’s sudden death, Regina Lawless was at the height of her corporate career as head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Instagram and seemingly had it all. Then tragedy struck, forcing her to rediscover who she truly was inside and what she wanted moving forward.
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Lindsey Weigle, Enough Already
—coaching partner at Bluewater Advisory & author
On the surface, Lindsey Weigle had it together. Great career, wonderful family, clean house. Like many, she ticked off the boxes each day from when she woke up to when she collapsed into bed wearing her exhaustion as a badge of honor. Until one day, when the unrelenting standards she’d set for herself finally became too much. Sobbing in a puddle on the bathroom floor, she realized it was time to make a change.
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💫 Your writing inspiration
💡 Writing tip: : Let your excitement be your sign!
If you’ve been thinking and talking about your book for a long time and feel a strong inner pull that now is the moment, trust that feeling. That fire and enthusiasm aren’t just excitement; they’re fuel. Use them to build momentum and carry you all the way through to a finished book.
💭 Writing quote by Shannon Hale
“I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
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