LitFriends: What Didn’t You Write Today? Click Here to Subscribe Dear LitFriends, I’ve been underground lately, figuratively speaking – hiding in my cave of blankets and comfort reads, nursing a heart, heavy with current events. Maybe you’ve been there too. The world has felt a bit too sharp, too loud, too everything. But here’s the …
LitFriends: It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Time To Write. From JackWalkerPress.com and AmyLouJenkins.com In this edition: New articles for craft and inspiration. Writer news (add your news for the next edition). Calls for Submission Hello LitFriends, Welcome new subscribers and thank you for being part of the LitFriends Community. I know …
LitFriends: Breakthrough With the 2-Day Challenge! Latest News & Updates: Free Writing Challenge, Anthologies, Course Updates and More! Dear LitFriends This month has been a world of opposites for me. I finished a long-awaited trip to Italy with my husband. We planned this before COVID and finally made it. I’m still happily haunted by the …
Write Your Memoir With Us This is the summer we begin our memoirs or our next writing project. I’m heading out for a few weeks on a bucket-list trip to Italy. Then a Summer of writing begins. In June, we begin our memoirs using the JUMP method. With homage to the writing process, we learn …
Subscribe to LitFriends First Name: Email: I agree to receive email updates and promotions. Submit LitFriends: New Year, New Projects Dear LitFriends, Happy New Year to our esteemed community of writers and readers. We hope this message finds you immersed in the joy of storytelling and creative exploration. If not, we hope you find inspiration …
LitFriends Newsletter: The Personal Essay and Resistance Are You Making Writing Harder Than It Should Be? (I am) LitFriends, every time I overcome resistance to writing, I feel better. I wish resistance would go away, but it never will. I wanted to write this little intro days ago, but I was working in my head …
New book trailer for ‘Corners; Voices on Change” I’ll be honest here. We had a book trailer created for Corners when it first came out. We never released it because it felt like the wrong tone. The music sounded like an alternate theme to the Mission Impossible movie series. Corners; Voices on Change is about the …
Elan Barnehama and Amy Lou Jenkins in a Conversation about Long-Term Friendships ALJ. When I read your wonderful essay “Showing Up,’ now published in FRIENDS, I was struck by feelings of estrangement and, on the other hand, the comfort of friends. These two emotions seemed to be bantering throughout the essays. It felt familiar and …
Betsy Robinson and Amy Lou Jenkins in a Conversation About What can be Learned Within Friendships of Contrast Buy Friends at Amazon or your favorite bookseller including your indie bookstore. ALJ Hi Betsy, I loved your essay, ‘Two Kinds of Gardeners,’ in Friends: Voices on the Gift of Companionship and I admit, I tend to …
Friends: Voices on the Gift of Companionship twenty-four true stories of friendship “An uplifing celebration of essays about the value of friendship” Midwest Book Review Give FRIENDS to say “I cherish you.” BUY TODAY ON AMAZON SHOP YOUR LOCAL INDIE BOOKSTORE Praise for ‘Friends: Voices on the Gift of Companionship’ International Review of Books “A …