Last Summer's Diaries
Announcing a collection of diary entries.
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📚 Book Club for Writers · Sunday’s discussion of 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round was terrific! Paid subscribers can access the replay at the bottom of this email. Learn more about our book club here.
LAST SUMMER’S DIARIES
Today, I am thrilled to announce that I’m releasing a zine called 100 Swims: Last Summer’s Diaries. The zine arrives on August 31. Preorders available now.
WHAT IS A ZINE? A zine is a small-batch print publication. Think something between a magazine (where the word “zine” comes from!) and a booklet.
If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you may recall that I tried to go swimming 100 times last year. I made a chart to track my swims.
I did not end up swimming 100 times, but I did swim 78 times, and I would not have gone swimming 78 times if I had not set out to swim 100 times.
Around the same time, I set a goal to journal every day. I recently revisited those diary entries from last summer and thought: I want these to live somewhere.
I rounded up at least one sentence from each day of last summer’s journaling. This zine is the result. In addition to being a zine about swimming, it’s also about the writing process, chronicling my attempt to finish a novel revision.
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If you’re a paid subscriber of this newsletter, you can get 10% off your zine order. You’ll find the code at the bottom of this email.
ZINE RELEASE PARTY
Friends in Jacksonville, FL! On August 31, I’m having a release party, where I’ll read selections from the zine. In other words: I am willingly reading my diary aloud to a room full of people. And I would love to have you there! Here are the details:
100 Swims Release Party
August 31, 2024 · 6-8PM
Makenu Chocolate
30 Seminole Road
Atlantic Beach
If you want to preorder a zine and pick it up at the release party, select Store Pickup at checkout!
SUMMER WRITING NIGHTS: NOW $20!
More than 75 of you (!) have signed up to take part in my summer-long Wednesday night co-writing group. This group is now discounted at $20 for the rest of the summer.
Together, we’re working on novels, short stories, essays, newsletters, and more.
Want to join in? It’s not too late to sign up: $20 for the rest of the summer, discounted from $30. You’ll receive the Zoom link within 24 hours of signing up.
BOOK CLUB FOR WRITERS
Sunday’s discussion of 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round was a hit. Thanks to all who joined me live on Zoom!
One book club member, Ariel R., sent this summery photo along from a Michigan beach. A piece of pleasant peninsular paradise!
Learn more about our quarterly book club here. Paid subscribers, you can find the book club replay below the paywall at the bottom of this email.
NEXT BOOK CLUB PICK
Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature · I started keeping a nature journal this year and love being in the practice of writing about what I see, collecting words about the landscape the way one might collect leaves or shells. I hope this book by Tina Welling might encourage us all to write more about the worlds around us. Meets Wednesday, October 30, 8-9:30 PM EST on Zoom.