Want to read: Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender by Casey Kayser 📚🎭

🔖🎭 Read On and Off Stage: The Deep-Seated Bias in the Culture of American Theatre.

In addition to thinking about whose plays get produced, promoted, and awarded, Kayser makes me think about who gets to be critics and who can afford to go to shows.

Mindy Thomas & Guy Raz have some great advice for writers of all ages in their National Book Festival video. 📚📝

🔖 Read What Reading Looks Like When You’re a Full-Time Author (Book Riot).

Asking for a friend: what do you think Kaz Brekker’s D&D class would be? Rogue? I feel like rogue. (The friend is me.) 📚📺🎲

I realized reading Week 1 of THE ARTIST’S WAY that most of my negative self-talk isn’t modeled on how other people talked to me (I was blessed with supportive friends, family, and educators) but rather on how my parents talk to themselves. My kid said “Get it together, M” to himself the other day which I know is something he’s heard me say to myself. I’m trying to speak to myself more kindly for his sake as well as my own.

💬📚 “…if we can become one-tenth as good at positive self-talk as we are at negative self-talk, we will notice an enormous change.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY.

🔖 Read Please Keep Doing Virtual Book Stuff After The Pandemic.

Jessica Pryde makes a great argument for maintaining virtual and/or adding hybrid book events even when it’s safe to hold them in person.

💬📚 “It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

💬📚 “Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY