There are people who tend to do a lot of things behind the scenes. They are organized and efficient and there's no one who doesn't like them. She is able to rally the troops and she is good at asking for things. You might have seen Ruth at the library over the years, but I want to introduce you to Ruth is the conference director at Lakefly Writers Conference. This annual conference happened this weekend and I have to tell you, I think it was the biggest and best one yet. Ruth and her team of incredible volunteers and workshop leaders and keynote speaker all did a wonderful dream of bringing together writers to learn about the craft and the business of writing for publication. When I moved here six year ago Lakefly was my very first conference or event I did. It's always the first weekend in May at [...]

April was a crazy busy month. Lots of book signings and money raised for 2nd Chance Shelter in Boaz, AL. More on that later this week. But in between marketing and writing and getting ready to teach the E-Seed Entrepreneur Workshops at Fox Valley Technical College I've been on a few podcasts. I need to post them on my site, but for now, here's one of my newest episodes. I love this podcasts because we all have bucket lists. Roger interviews people about their lists and he likes to showcase unique ones to help inspire people to do all the things they want to do before it's too late. Writing a book or seeing a national park are great goals. But there are many who do that. So he looks for unique bucket list items and he heard my story and decided it was worthy of having a conversation. So [...]