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!
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.
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]
[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]
Assorted arrangements of The Write Women Book Fest 2025 display in the Barnes & Noble Booksellers at Bowie Town Center
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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