Forgive me if I've already reached out to you, but I just wanted to add my two cents in support of the amazing Jennifer Lauck's generous offer to host our first-ever Portland She Writes meetup, on Tuesday June 29th, to celebrate our one-year anniversary. While this virtual community is wonderful, I think we all feel that gathering in person is also meaningful and crucial to our well-being, and I hope this will be the first of many such gatherings going forward.

At the anniversary meetups, we are asking attendees to participate in She Writes' Book Communion: bring one book, your own or another She Writers', and leave with another one, a perfect way to get to know each other better and to support one another's work. We will also be blowing out a candle for SW's birthday along with women gathered in 16 cities around the country (and in London!), a historic (or at least pretty darn cool) occasion.

If you can attend, or even if you can't, please RSVP to Jennifer here as a way to thank her for her willingness to step up as host.

You poor baby! You sound like you are working yer tush off! Yep...my fourth book came out last Saturday. I am so thrilled that you found a good agent. Good luck...not that you need it when you are so darned talented!

Howdy, girl! Have not seen or heard much from you lately. Everything okay?

I'm exploring a little now, but I have several NF deadlines to hit this weekend and I am working on editing a novella too -- then I want to get back to my WIP -- so many words, so little time!

Thanks for inviting me over Minette!

Story of My Life is a site started to "store stories." Anyone can go on and start a free account and type in as many stories as they like. As a featured storyteller, it has been a great experience for me to practice interviewing subjects, write a story from their life and publish it online. I have written 30 stories of individuals and I am looking for more all the time. It is a great way to meet interesting people and connect with other writers. They are always looking for new writers too.

I am trying to figure it out too but it is the first forum that I have joined where the members are doing exactly what I want to do more of - write fiction! How exciting. I see you have written some books. Very cool.

PS very weird and creepy that I somehow formatted it so that Sarah's name was crossed out. Hm.

Hi Minette! Just wanted to say welcome to SHE WRITES. I love all that you are doing here -- very smart to get events posted for the group, and exciting to think about the possibilities of mobilizing this community to support one another. A writer from the UK, Sarah Dunant, is coming to the US on a tour soon and I think she will be in the Pacific Northwest -- more soon. She is a really amazing and internationally recognized author of historical fiction, The Birth of Venus being one of her most well-known books. I am encouraging her to add events for her tour, too. Please be in touch and let me know if there is anything you'd like to see here at SHE WRITES that you haven't so far.

Warm best,
Kamy