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Memoir a sequel to Beetle’s first book, Divine Renovations EASTHAMPTON—Janice Beetle, a longtime writer and editor from Western Massachusetts, has released her second book, Willful Evolution: [...]

How do you come back and thrive after your husband dies four days after you are laid off from a job that was supporting your family?

Nick Grabbe was a longtime editor of the Amherst Bulletin, a weekly paper that covered Amherst, Massachusetts, and was owned by the DeRose brothers, who also were the publishers of the Daily [...]

Charlene Moses is the author of Given to Submission: A journey of shame, truth, and forgiveness, which is available in my Shop. I believe Charlene’s memoir of her early life will resonate with [...]

Writing a memoir is like painting a landscape or sculpting a jewel-studded necklace. Each work of art starts as a vision, an idea; then, it evolves into a sketch, and slowly, something real and [...]

I have promised an excerpt from “Willful Evolution,” and today, I deliver. What follows is the book’s prologue.

As I considered a name for my first book, I went through a process that was methodical but not very productive in terms of getting me to a name I loved. 

Recently, I had the pleasure of conducting a Discovery Session through Janice Beetle Books with Charlene Moses of Laconia, New Hampshire. She is working on a memoir about painful events that [...]

About a year and a half ago, I asked my intern from Westfield State University to review all the blogs I’ve written over the past decade and compile her favorites. I intended to publish a “Best [...]

Note: I recently did what I call a Discovery Session through Janice Beetle Books with a writer from Laconia, New Hampshire, named Claire L. Hebert-Dow. Claire is writing a memoir, and she came to [...]