Healthy Writers - Not My Mother's Vegetables

Today marks my debut as a columnist on the Healthy Writer Blog.

If you're not familiar with the blog, I hope you'll drop by and check it out.

Healthy Writer was started about a year ago by writer Trish Milburn to chronicle her efforts to live a healthier lifestyle. Writing may be a sedentary career, but it doesn't have to be an unhealthy one!

Over the year the blog expanded with Michelle Butler, Tawny Weber, Keri Mikulski and Rachel Kleinsorge each taking a day and focusing on a different aspect of living a healthier life. Today I join them with a Saturday column on vegetables.

My post today is called Not My Mother's Vegetables and the vegetable du jour is the amazing superfood Kale.

I hope you'll come by and check out some of the videos and recipes.

WriteonCon

A week or more ago we were talking about all the people heading off to various conferences and what it felt like to be the ones left at home.

Well this week, all that changed. If you haven't discovered it yet, head on over to WriteonCon, an awesome online FREE conference. The conference is aimed at writers for the Kidlit market but the advice being offered is applicable across genres and the entire idea is extremely cool.

For example, if you're in need of motivation or validation, try this presentation by HarperCollins editor Molly O'Neill - Give Yourself Permission

Last night I participated in/really just observed an online video chat with agent/former editor Mark McVeigh - Working with Agents and Editors

Today there is a workshop on Plot and Pacing that I'm looking forward to spending time on.

There are also upcoming live video chats on querying, building an online presence and the revision process from both the author and editor perspective.

Be sure to check out the schedule of events. It's mind-boggling.

The conference actually started on Tuesday but almost all of the sessions are available as blogs or transcripts on the site.

Huge KUDOS to the organizers of this event. It's absolutely amazing.