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Hi Women Writers,

Welcome to all the new members and subscribers this week!

I hope you enjoy our member interview this week with NAWW Member, Kelly Epperson. I LOVED her interview because she threw in a few unexpected comments that almost made me pee in my pants. Thank you Kelly for sharing and for helping all of our women writers laugh a little bit more this week!

Are you a NAWW member? Want to be interviewed? Send your name and website link to info@naww.org for consideration for our weekly interviews.

Upcoming Member TeleSeminar for February

Organize with Confidence–Simplify Your Life and Make Every Moment Count

Date: February 6
Time: Noon (PST), 1 pm (MST), 2 pm (CST), 3 pm (EST)

Stop disorder from stopping you! It’s time to make your life easier.

Do you?

  • Find yourself being overwhelmed by all the clutter?
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  • Wish you had a plan each day so you could feel like you got something important done by the end of the day?

Face it; disorganization can be a disaster – both personally and professionally. Clutter complicates our lives and costs time, money, and self-esteem.

With ‘Organize with Confidence’ you will:

  • Discover the easy method to get organized
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  • Discover confidence in order!

As a Certified Professional Organizer®, member of the National Speakers Association, and author of Organize with Confidence, nationally known speaker Elizabeth Hagen will teach us the common-sense systems and tools she has developed over 25 years. She will help us get organized, use our valuable time more wisely and feel great about ourselves. You will start the year with more confidence because you will know how to accomplish what you’ve been promising yourself for years – making that ‘organization mission happen’.

Note to members: Call-in information is on your member login page. If you do not have your password, e-mail us at support@naww.org

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Supporting You - One Word At A Time,
NAWW President—Sheri McConnell
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Member of the Week: Kelly Epperson

Q: When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?
A: Every morning when I wake up.

Q: How and when did you make this dream a reality?
A: The short answer: I write. The long answer: Baby steps. In 2001, I started writing a humorous “Bombeckesque” column for my local weekly newspaper, and it now runs in several small town papers across northern and central Illinois. In 2005, we moved (temporarily) to France. Readers loved the tales of our adventures abroad. I took a creative writing class (in English). I started submitting, and my short stories and poetry were published. Each step was a confidence builder.

When we moved back to Illinois, I wanted to give writing a chance as a career, not a joyful hobby. I’m now a fulltime freelance writer/ghostwriter, living a dream. My first book, When Life Stinks, It’s Time to Wash the Gym Clothes, was published in October 2007. My husband (known as The Man of the Place) always said I lived in a world of make-believe; the writing life gives me the best of both worlds, the real one and the land of imagination.

Read the rest of this interview here.

http://naww.org/blog/naww-member-of-the-week-%e2%80%93-kelly-epperson

 

Free Woman's Quote of the Day

Enjoy a fr*ee dose of daily inspiration by other women writers!

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This series is based on our best selling book, The Woman's Book of Powerful Quotations. All NAWW Members receive this book when you join or renew.



Butterfly Women Press

Are you a woman writer who wants to change the world with her words? The NAWW is currently accepting book proposals for publishing under a new NAWW imprint called Butterfly Women Press. NAWW will choose at least one book per year to transform the world. We believe the world can indeed be changed one book at a time.

  • Submissions for our 2008 book will close March 31, 2008
  • Submissions for our 2009 release will close October 31, 2008

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Article of the Week

Called to Write by Marilyn Mackenzie

I am not the only person in the world who thinks writing takes more heart than anything. I’ve personally known a few editors. One was an editor for a large and well-known major book publisher in NY. He was the first person who ever told me that he would prefer receiving a potential book from someone who wrote from the heart, but whose writing needed some editing than a submission that was perfectly constructed but lacked that “oomph” or spark of one writing from the heart. Construction can be learned, yes. Or one can pay an editor before submitting. (Now-a-days editors don’t like having to do that as much as this man when he was editor.)

Read the rest of this article here

http://naww.org/blog/called-to-write-by-marilyn-mackenzie

 

 

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--Do you want to be featured in an upcoming NAWW newsletter? We are looking for more members to interview. To be considered for an interview, you must be current on your dues and it must have been 12 months since your last interview. Please e-mail us at info@naww.org with your name and website link to request an interview spot.

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