Kathy Dunnehoff is the bestselling author of The Do-Over, Back to U, Plan on It, and Hollywood Beginnings.
A women's fiction and romantic comedy writer, she has the ability to bring writing and life together with insight and humor.
After earning her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, she began a 30-year (and counting!) career teaching creative writing at the college level.
Her years working with thousands of writers in the classroom and at writer's conferences has led her to create a series of friendly writing guides. Hello, Writer: Plan to Have Your Best Writing Year Ever was published in February 2024.
Kathy and her husband have raised two amazing daughters and call Montana home.
The Do-Over
Back to U
Hollywood Beginnings
Plan On It
And the writing guide series... Hello, Writer: Plan to Have Your Best Writing Year Ever!
Just before her fortieth birthday, Mara Jane Mulligan, devoted wife and mother, runs out of bubble bath, and the ensuing panic attack drives her to Canada for more. She realizes that one foamy soak probably won't cure what ails her, so she takes a 30 day vacation from her life. (What woman doesn't need one of those?)
She changes her name from plain Janie to Mara, swaps mom jeans for vintage funk, discovers her inner party girl and outer cleavage, and hopes that by the end of the month, she’ll be ready to return home and happily warehouse shop for jugs of ketchup again. Surely her family will understand. Her son’s visiting Grandma, and maybe her husband won't even miss her.
Unfortunately, her husband doesn't miss much and tracks her to Abundance, a Vancouver bubble bath company. She's pretty sure she can explain the strip club and the pack of wild grandmas, and also the lesbians at her slumber party, and possibly the all-over sunburn from the clothing optional beach, but the soapy encounters with the bubble bath mogul?… probably not.
As her 30 days sail by, Mara Jane Mulligan discovers she has a decision to make that even Dorothy couldn't avoid… Will she click her heels for home or kick them up for good?
In this friendly guide, you'll be given four do-able steps to map out your writing year (and stick to it!). Any writer can Choose What Matters, Learn How You Write, Be Realistic About Your Year, and Evaluate and Adjust.
So... let's get started!
"After writing 125 books, I still found this lively, fun guide a great way to plan my writing year. Every writer can benefit from this humorous guide."
B.J. Daniels, NYT and USA Today bestselling author of The Dark Side of the River romantic suspense series.
"A fun and practical guide to increasing your productivity and your joy quotient from a writer and teacher who knows all the ways we get in our own way, and how to get around them."
Leslie Budewitz, three-time Agatha Award winning author of The Spice Shop mysteries.
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