I pasted in my book’s ISBN number and hit enter. It populated the trial site with my information and my book. If you have multiple books, it will list them all. If you haven’t published yet, no worries!

Check it out: HappyJacqueBooks.com

I began the whole process ten minutes before hosting a one-hour Silent Writing session at AWritingRoom.com (you are invited to join us, Writers!). If you have facilitated group events on Zoom, you know that there are a lot of moving parts to manage.

Feeling feral, I gave myself a double-dog dare with wild abandon: to set up my new website and press “Publish” before the end of Silent Writing. I started the Zoom timer for 60 minutes and began my race.

It’s important to note that I did not prepare for this task. When I woke up, I wasn’t even thinking about doing this today.

In that ONE hour, I created my website except for a couple of tiny finishing touches.

I’m happy to report that HappyJacqueBooks.com is live!

My wonderful husband created the domain name on the fly. It’s perfect!

After I hit “Publish,” Tertulia offered a referral incentive. I wasn’t looking for one. I would 100% recommend them anyway and was planning to.

Since they offered, here’s the link: Tertulia Invitation. They will give us each a free month, and there is a trial period before that. Recently, I saw that IngramSpark recommends Tertulia.

✏️Keep the Creativity Fueled🧋

Trust me, if I can cobble together a website, YOU can too!

I am so happy to find an easy, affordable website resource for Writers!

Because we need to be WRITING…not goofing around with tricky tech!

As our friend, T.J. Skinner, says, “Write on!”

And as our mentor in AWritingRoom.com, Anne Lamott, says, “You have words due.”

Let’s get back to work, Writers.

Scan the QR Code to buy my book WOOF NOTES, Life with Dogs, Vol. One

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It is a writer’s wellness book that delivers.

One practice that caught my attention and will stay with me is to use my writing as my anchor. In meditation, I’m familiar with returning to my breath as my anchor when I lose focus or my attention wanders.

The author recommends practicing mindfulness meditation before beginning a writing session, then transitioning into using our actual writing as the anchor to bring us back to our work when our attention wanders.

All of our writing sessions become meditation. When we notice we have lost focus, we simply return to the anchor, to our writing itself.

This is a powerful, effective practice. This is flow.

I am recommending this book and its practices to everyone in the wonderful writing community I belong to at AWritingRoom.com.

It will improve the lives of writers by helping us to be more mindful, more peaceful, more creative.

We can be in flow far more often.

We can build the muscles of resilience and discernment regarding critique, utilizing what we agree with intuitively, and disregarding the rest. We don’t need to be devastated by feedback because we will learn that we are writers; we are not our work. That is an important lesson in the writing life.

The principles and practices taught here are important and empowering. I’ll be referring to it throughout the entirety of my writing life.

I hope it is transformative for you too. Let me know what you think.

Wishing you wonderful writing sessions ahead.