July 7-July 16, 2026 (as per calendar) ✍️ Co-writing Sessions (30 minutes) ✍️ Tuesday 6:00 PM PDT Wednesday 9:00 AM PDT Note: 🏃‍♀️ to update this session to now be on Zoom. 🗝️ VIP Sessions (60 minutes) 🗝️ Sacred Conversation: Monday 10:00 AM PDT ✍️ Sacred Writing Sessions ✍️ Tuesday & Thursday 9:00 AM PDT Wednesday 11:00 AM PDT I'll be on vacation the week of July 20th and checking in but not on Zoom. P.S. 📚 If you are in the process of writing and considering Self-Publishing, I'd love to have you in Self-Publishing Skool. It's my paid community and $11/m gets you access to the resources from my 31 years of traditional publishing and 7.5 years of self-publishing experience, along with 15 years as a Law of Attraction Life Coach. P.P.S. I just shared the AI Prompt that generated my corporate photo for LinkedIn. Head over to the Self-Publishing Skool to create your professional author photo.

We're a few minutes away from our evening co-writing session. If it's not on your calendar and you see this, jump in any time between 6 and 6:30 PM PDT. Co-write or co-work, whichever is top of mind for you. Today we are celebrating the final publication of @Lucie Haskins' book, Married Widow. Lucie was one of my first clients in the Writing Wisdom Workshop where Sacred Writing Sessions came alive. January 2019. Magic happened the first time Lucie sat down to write and I closed my eyes in meditation. The Language Portal opened. We've been in hundreds of sessions together writing, editing, and becoming devoted friends. Lucie, I am so proud of you. Yours and Dean's story has finally been birthed into the physical world. Your journey, woven through 50 years of a love so profound, transports us to understand the purest sense of what love and resilience mean. Your stories written through emails and Love Notes will help others navigate the loss and love in their lives, and see what selflessness does when confronted with a longterm Traumatic Brain Injury. Thank you for allowing me to walk this path with you. Lucie, sending you much love, sweet friend and 2x published author. To our friends, what is one story you've been carrying that hasn't found its way onto the page yet?

My boss is my 📅. Is writing on yours? A heads up, I have an appointment Tuesday evening. The co-writing session shall be moved to 7:00 PM PT. You receive two complimentary co-writing sessions each week: Tuesday evening PDT. Wednesday at 9:00 AM PDT. And as a VIP, you receive four one-hour sessions. What a week we just had. What were your highlights? @Lucie Haskins and I finalized the layout for her book, Married Widow, and we uploaded it to Amazon yesterday. It'll be available on June 30 2026. And then, we had an incredible co-creation with our signature video for the Community Signature Battle. Thank you to @Ryan Clark @Vicki Dunn @Rebecca B and @Heather Rovet for contributing with your amazing testimonials and helping to create our community's anthem. A huge thanks to all our members for your presence. What would you find valuable for your writing journey over the summer? P.S. Ten communities participated in the Community Signature Battle, and co-created fun, amazingly creative videos. Have you voted? It closes on Thursday at noon PDT.

One thing I enjoy immensely is formatting a book for a client. It right up there with coaching them through the entire publishing process. And the absolute best is celebrating the author when we reach the finish line. And that happened today! OMG. Please join me in celebrating @Lucie Haskins today! The final PDFs for her book, Married Widow, got uploaded to Amazon with a release date of March 12, 2026. As I wrap up this project with Lucie, I thought it might be fun to share my lessons along the way. I learn something new every time I lay out a book in InDesign, even though I've produced a dozen books for clients. 1. Metatron's Code: my first publication in 2019 ... so everything was a learning curve. Biggest challenges to overcome: chapter page layout with the dot leaders, tabs, running heads, and adding a graphic to the running footer. (It's the little things.) 2. Amy and the Angels: kerning and leading. 3. Beyond The Shift: orphans, widows, and runts. (My proofreader, Lucie Haskins, shared about orphans and widows, and I taught her about runts.) 4. Married Widow has 45 images, so it became important to learn how to anchor images to a page. But first, the handy resize tool in Canva made the resizing process super easy. Every book gets easier, but I love the challenge of learning something new that never came up in a previous book. I’m curious where you are in your book journey—idea, draft, editing, or publishing?

As you consider your publication date, choose it boldly and mark it on your calendar. A target date helps keep most of us motivated. If you've never written or self-published before, know that picking a date doesn’t lock you into an unrealistic timeline. Trust the Universe will lead you with perfection through the Law of Divine Timing. Pushing ahead while ignoring your intuition creates undue pressure, rigidity, and uncertainty about the quality of your book. It can be frustrating when you need to redo things, such as rewriting (after believing it was finished) or reformatting your manuscript. I have learned the power of Divine Timing, most specifically through my work with @Lucie Haskins. We met in 2019 in a semi-private spiritual mentoring group and found out that she was writing her book, Married Widow, and that I had just started SourceCode Publishing. Lucie came into my first writing course and joined my Sacred Writing Sessions. I don't remember when her first tentative pub date was, but it definitely wasn't March 12, 2026. Expect life to thwart your plans. Lucie faced several stops and restarts, especially with the essential time needed as the primary caregiver and advocate for her husband, who suffered from a traumatic brain injury in 2006. In 2023, she shifted her focus to writing a chapter for my anthology, Beyond The Shift, and became my proofreader for all future publications. Throughout our years together, we embraced Divine Timing to guide us. As we shift the pub date from January 26 to March 12, we know this is the most spacious choice we can make. There are all sorts of things that can cause you to say, "Not yet." Essentially, what you're allowing yourself to do is take the time to create a book you're proud of. With "Married Widow," I miscalculated the inside margins, and we reduced the font size, which substantially affected the layout. Now that I’ve re-formatted, I can review her book thoroughly, which wouldn’t have been possible if we kept our pub date scheduled for Monday.