by MontanaCoauthor | Feb 23, 2019 | News
ALERT to MONTANA CLIENTS: Right now the Montana state legislature is presently considering a bill that would strip prescription authority from Naturopaths. Trillium Clinic in Bozeman recently shared the following: “LC3275 threatens Naturopathic physician...
by MontanaCoauthor | Jan 28, 2019 | Sketchbook, Writing Process Tips
I have multiple author clients who are struggling deeply right now—not with their writing, but with the world of book marketing. It’s a keen vulnerability of the creative brain: the qualities that make it easy for us to get lost in a manuscript, lose track of time as...
by MontanaCoauthor | Dec 14, 2018 | Sketchbook, Writing Process Tips
To make a little cash. There’s a saying in the horse world: It takes a million dollars to make a million dollars. One could say the same about book publishing. In this day of easy e-publishing, over 1 million new self-published titles were released in 2017 alone. ...
by MontanaCoauthor | Nov 14, 2018 | Writing Process Tips
“How can you possibly find the time to write?” Oh boy, that question. What people are really saying is, “How do you justify writing instead of doing all the other way more important things?” The reality is that most people view writing as a leisure activity, not real...
by MontanaCoauthor | Oct 15, 2018 | Writing Process Tips
What to do when content comes in a wild and disorganized mass… Sometimes I take a weekend to “write in the far away” (to adapt Georgia O’Keefe’s reference to “painting in the far away”). Content comes quickly. Sometimes it comes in a remarkably organized...
by MontanaCoauthor | Sep 12, 2018 | Writing Process Tips
I’ve had a lot of client inquiries about the not-so-simple task of managing all the physical paper we still use in the writing process–and how to manage multiple digital draft files too. Here are the tools I use to help organize myself on a daily basis. Index...
by MontanaCoauthor | Aug 21, 2018 | Writing Process Tips
The old Zen Koan appears to hold true: The way you do one thing, is the way you do everything. To help me get out of my office once in a while, I am completing coursework for a Permaculture Design program. For the moment, that means I’ve developed a number of...
by MontanaCoauthor | Jul 2, 2018 | News
“…scattered throughout this darker narrative, we also see Brigitte reveling in small childhood pleasures: learning to ride a bike, finding a blanket-stuffed nook to read a few precious books, and picking blueberries in the summer, mushrooms in the spring...
by MontanaCoauthor | Jun 5, 2018 | News
“Yearman’s remembrance…is poignant, filled with vivid details but unembellished by maudlin sentiment. She allows the genuine power of her autobiographical drama to speak for itself. ” So states a recent Kirkus Review posting about “Don’t...
by MontanaCoauthor | May 17, 2018 | Writing Process Tips
All of my clients struggle with writer’s block at some point, and they can become frustrated with themselves over their “procrastination”. But sometimes writer’s block is intelligent. Sometimes the subconscious needs to tell us something through that block. Gentle...
