Author Archive: Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

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Five Weeks To Book Launch And How My Writing Practice Keeps Me Grounded

Five Weeks To Book Launch And How My Writing Practice Keeps Me Grounded

I am a woman with many morning practices, from skin care to yoga and meditation to blending a perfected breakfast smoothie, from walking my dog to writing long hand in my journal.  Needless to say, I need to rise and shine pretty early in order to squeeze in these beloved rituals. Very often, I laugh […]

July 22, 2019 | By | Reply More
Take Me Seriously??

Take Me Seriously??

A friend suggested recently I write an essay about how one went about being taken seriously as a female writer over fifty. My first reaction to this suggestion was actually surprise, and my second was wonder …. maybe she didn’t take me seriously? I sat back in my chair and regarded her more closely. No, […]

6 Months After Publishing…

6 Months After Publishing…

EDEN turns 6 months old on November 2.  After experiencing a dream come to life on my May 2 “pub day”, I had never understood that’s also when the meter started running on my book’s relevance.   Thirty or sixty days out and bookstores take books off displays and shelves; downright cantankerous with the suggestion of […]

October 30, 2017 | By | 3 Replies More
Get the Imp off my Shoulder

Get the Imp off my Shoulder

I’ve been having a hard time keeping pre-launch publicity efforts from totally derailing my creative spirit. These days I have two little imps, one on each shoulder, each spurring me in different directions.  One wants me to write content pieces, blog, update social media and my mailing lists, and the other screaming at me that […]

March 31, 2017 | By | 1 Reply More