In her memoir The Family Outing, author Jessi Hempel writes: "The more I live in the world, the more I come to understand that everyone has a closet."
I agree.
Maybe your closet is:
Claiming your identity as a writer—someone who has something to say to the world—is brave and it's scary.
I know what that feels like.
When I first came out in 2016, I couldn't say I was gay or lesbian or queer—let alone that I was a queer writer. I didn't really know what label to attach to the life-changing awakening I'd experienced at midlife.
Shortly after my husband and I decided to divorce, I...
I smiled earlier this month when my business coach asked a fill-in-the-blank question during a goal-setting workshop:
Really? My memoir, GRAVEYARD OF SAFE CHOICES, is all about breaking free from a play-it-safe and small life. Do I have to keep being brave? Wasn't leaving everything I knew behind and starting over in my mid-50s brave enough?
Yes, that's a photo of my condo on move-in day five years ago.
But as I held a pen in my hand, the answer came quickly:
I’m going to have to put it out there soon—my coming out later-in-life memoir will be published in late Fall 2023 or early Winter 2024.
It feels so VULNERABLE. So visible. So public.
This is especially true for people in the LGBTQ+ community who've been judged and shamed for simply being who they are.
These writers are brave souls who know there are readers...
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