Leslie Barber

I found this book at my favorite cafe in South America. Reading it again this morning. Thank you @johnstrelecky for writing it and sharing it with the world 🌍. #readingrebels #readersofig #booksbooksbooks

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Leslie Barber

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I picked this up a few years ago-finally getting around to it!

Sierra Melcher

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🦋90Days

90-day SPRINTERS- TOMORROW [TUESDAY] WE SHARE

This WEEK We will review each other's work. - Be ready to share the ONE-MINUTE Elevator Pitch of your project. - Bring something to share (short & big picture- not nit-picky grammar stuff) - Be at the Google Meet 5 min early, if you can

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90-day SPRINTERS- TOMORROW [TUESDAY] WE SHARE

Leslie Barber

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I'll put my pitch here, since I like seeing things in writing before I fully get on board with it. AFTER EVERYTHING After Everything is a branching women's fiction novel based on the childhood choose-your-own-adventure series. In a terrible accident the day before her college graduation, Cora loses her beloved mother and gains a quadriplegic father. She spends the next four decades as his caregiver, while also raising a daughter, managing a dysfunctional marriage and slowly disappearing into a life of service that she did not choose. When her father dies and her divorce is final, Cora is sixty years old and completely free for the first time. The choices in After Everything begin the moment she's finally free, and asks the reader to make the decisions she never got to make.. What Cora does with her newfound freedom depends entirely on who she's become and what happens along the way. Readers make a variety of choices that lead to eight different endings. The question of what a woman will do with sudden freedom doesn't have just one answer. Designed to be read more than once, each path through the book reveals a different Cora, a different life, and a different answer.

Leslie Barber

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTIvHN-HXmE You're welcome in advance. Play it loud! @Barbie Applegate

Heidi Richards Mooney

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✍️ WRITE

How Long Have You Been Carrying Your Book?

This week I wrote an article based on a realization that hit me while reflecting on two very different authors. One was teacher and author Frank McCourt, who carried the stories that became Angela's Ashes for decades before finally writing them down. The other was restaurateur Sal Scognamillo of Patsy's Italian Restaurant in New York City. After years of customers encouraging him to share the stories behind the restaurant, he finally wrote a book filled with memories, relationships, and experiences gathered over a lifetime. What struck me was this: Neither man sat down one day and suddenly had a book. They had been living their books for years. The writing simply gave those experiences a home. It made me wonder... What book might you already be carrying? What experiences, lessons, stories, or expertise have you accumulated that could help someone else? And if you've already written a book, what finally convinced you it was time to write it? I'd love to hear your story. (And if you'd like to read the full article, I'll share the LinkedIn link in the comments.)

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How Long Have You Been Carrying Your Book?

Leslie Barber

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I started writing mine in 1998 and published in May 2026. It took being on bed rest and going through another round of hard core job hunting to finally realize that I had knowledge to share and the time to do it.

Leslie Barber

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Diagrams are hard!

Writing an adult version of a choose-your-own-adventure takes a lot of planning ahead! Here’s my current flow, which I’m sure will be edited the deeper I get into this project. My goal is to outline the 6 endings before our Tuesday meeting, as well as design my main character.

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