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27 Days Until TWWBF2025 Saturday 7/19-20!

Finally made it over to Barnes & Noble Booksellers at the Bowie Town Center to see the display of books by some of the authors participating in The Write Women Book Fest!  
https://www.thewritewomenbookfest.org/#/ 

[endcap display with The Write Women Book Fest 2025 poster at the top; books by participating authors arranged beside and under it: Fake Flame, Results Will Vary, That ___ She He___*, Trading Places, Ruins and Redemption, ReInception, Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death, When She's on Top, Sleuths of Bears, Through Her Eyes, Protecting Paige, Love Reinvented, Too Dangerous to Love; Never, Now or Later; A Fire at Romanticon, Darcy's Gallant Gambit, The Adventures of Janie & Juliet, The Lord of Freedom: The Bell Tolling (Book One), An Exaltation of Larks, Macy the Mermaid] 


No One Is Self-Made: Build Your Village to Flourish in Business and Life 
by Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon 
non-fiction 
HarperCollins/William Morrow/DeySt, February 2025 

This passage from the introduction encapsulates the fundamental message of this instructional manual for ethical business endeavors: 

Doing business with an understanding that no one is self-made, that our playground for risk is safer and more prosperous when we carry one another, and that we are one another's salvation has revealed itself to me as the way forward. 

At a time when so many forces are working to move society backward (like to the 1850s), in eight concise, approachable chapters this book offers practical strategies for sharing resources to generate profitable outcomes for everyone involved. No One Is Self-Made is a keeper for easy access to being inspired and encouraged to work together and for us all to know that we're village-made. 


[two books face up: No One Is Self-Made: Build Your Village to Flourish in Business and Life by Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon, Say Everything, A Memoir by Ione Skye] 

Say Everything, A Memoir by Ione Skye 
non-fiction 
Simon & Schuster, March 2025 

Growing up is challenging. Doing so in the distorted funhouse mirror reflection of  entertainment media scrutiny makes surviving young adulthood multiple times harder. Through lots of trials and errors, this author learns to recognize and address the patterns of behavior that no longer serve her long-term goals for living a healthy, fulfilling life. This passage from the epilogue makes that point: 

A deep relationship is a labor of love... It's not a prize you win, like Cinderella, for being the prettiest girl with the daintiest foot. I know that now but no longer blame myself for not knowing it when I was very young. 

Studying the included photos and reading their captions adds even more pleasure to this engaging intimate self study with useful lessons for everyone.


Are there lots of undone tasks on my to-do list for The Write Women Book Fest 2025? 
Yes. 
Will that fact keep me from reading for pleasure at least a little bit every day? 
Nope. 
Stress reading is one of my coping strategies. 

My BAC (Book Acquisition Compulsion) issues continue.  

[horizontal bookstack from top to bottom: Salvacion, Down in the Sea of Angels, Cross the Line, Manic Pixie Dream Earl, Hazardous to a Duke's Heart, My Best Friend's Honeymoon, Great Big Beautiful Life; propped up next to the right side of the bookstack are Elphie: A Wicked Childhod and Wicked Movie dvd case] 


Assorted arrangements of The Write Women Book Fest 2025 display in the Barnes & Noble Booksellers at Bowie Town Center 
[four photos of the Barnes & Noble Booksellers at Bowie Town Center display showing the books mentioned above in the first image plus: Eat Dessert First, Love Across the Table, Crimson Chaos]   

With much gratitude to journalist Leslie Gray Streeter for her recent column in The Baltiomore Banner about TWWBF!


*My apologies to this author and the author of the book with the man wearing a dress shirt and suit coat for my not having the foresight to pull the book farther out to make the whole title easy to see. Check out The Write Women Book Fest IG page because Heather posted a video of our visit.  

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