Help Send My Daughter to Budapest!

My goober is currently a junior in college. She's set her sights on writing, directing, and acting in film. Have no idea where she would have gotten that from, lol. She's secured a spot on the roster of a handful of students who get to attend the Study Abroad program where they go overseas to …

Think I’m Done “Fundraising”

It's down to the last four days of the 2 Legit So We Can Quit (our day jobs) Booster campaign. We're one shirt from half-way to our sale's goal of 50 shirts. Now, I'm by no means "throwing in the towel". It's quite possible that we'll hit critical mass and something will spark sales to skyrocket …

Camp Journal, Day 13

Passed a milestone on the trail today. According to the sign post, I've just entered the halfway mark up the trail, give or take a step or two (word count 22,074).  Slow and steady, it feels good to be making such progress. (stepping out of my pretend world for a minute, it has been "a …

Quick news update

Only 11  days left to get your limited limited edition Little Brown Skin Girl / Nowata Press T-Shirt! Our 2 Legit So We Can Quit (our day jobs) Booster sale is in full swing! For more information and to get your limited edition T-Shirt, click here.  Be the person to purchase the 15th shirt and …

2nd Letter from Camp

Dear Mom, Here we are at day seven and it would appear I've been adopted by a rabbit.  A big, fluffy, pretty brown - the biggest rabbit I've ever seen. When I asked one of the counselors about it, she said there's a whole warren of the big bunnies just outside the camp grounds. They …

The Plan

I have a tribe - a grouping of friends who share aspects of my eclectic nature, offer spot on advice, teach me things, and talk me off ledges. It's not a formal tribe by any means, most of them don't know the others exist but that's not necessary in order for this to work. I would …

Little Brown Skin Girls – the Artist behind the Art

I'd like to introduce you to Lia Nelson - James, owner and CREATOR of Little Brown Skin Girl Scrap Paper Art. I wanted her to tell her story about how Little Brown Skin Girl came about and why she's looking forward to being able to take the business to its next level.   I was …

And the Winner is…

Rebekah has a blog here on WordPress as well.  Check her out at A Thicket of Musings.   Because she was the first one to purchase her shirt, she will receive signed copies of Breaking Point and Let There Be Life. The more Lia and I got to thinking about this, the more we wanted …

2 Legit So We Can Quit – our day jobs that is.

So, as you know, I've spent the last eight years publishing my own work and occasionally coaching writer's from "blank page to published" under the name Nowata Press Publishing & Consulting.  I've made a decent hobby of things so far, but now, it's time to level up as they say and turn this into a …