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You can choose courage or you can choose comfort. You cannot have both.

Brené Brown

For the past two and a half years, I’ve been joking that I haven’t seen my comfort zone since late 2017.

It’s not actually a joke, of course. I have been pushing myself beyond what I thought myself capable of and I’m not even close to being done.

During the last eighteen months alone, I quit my teaching job to start editing and coaching full time, I moved to Cyprus, I published my first co-written lesbian romance, I published my first and many other nonfiction books, and that’s just the business and writing part of my life.

Of course, these were all calculated risks, and some were bigger than others. You really don’t have to jump without a safety net. Falling flat on your face and bruising your ego is embarrassing enough as it is. Besides, there’s no guarantee a crazy leap will bring in a bigger reward. It might, but it might also end in a trip to the ER.Read More →

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Last month, I had my first virtual book tour. I had about zero expectations going in, but I did have hopes and dreams…

…and the results exceeded those in the extreme.

Which is why I can’t wait to share my results with you, and urge you on to try it for yourself.

A virtual book tour…

One of my writer friends, Lasairiona McMaster, has been on such a roll. Ever since I met her, Las has published five romance books and she has another three up for pre-order.

With every release, she kept posting about her ‘virtual book tour’ and the amazing reviews she got during it.Read More →

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When your inner critic makes all the sense…

…how do you keep going?

This past month, I’ve been working on my next tarot challenge—Speak Your Truth. As I was pondering the questions, the need to shake things up a bit during this challenge came over me. Great, right? I love it when inspiration suddenly strikes.

Unfortunately, those are also the moments that—for me at least—that nasty little voice inside my head pipes up and desperately tries to waylay whatever new idea is now buzzing in my brain.

As soon as my curiosity went ‘Yes, gut, let’s shake things up indeed!’, the following thoughts tried to take hostage of my mind, in this order:Read More →

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Katie Forrest is a time management geek, lawyer, solo traveller, and lover of caffeine. She writes fiction under two pen names and lives near Sherwood Forest with her husband and daughter. She blogs on all things linked to time management and productivity at her website, and is the host of the Facebook group Time Management for Writers. Her latest book, Time Management for Writers, launches today. Read More →

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In this video, I reflect on what it was like to attend 20booksto50k Edinburgh and how it made me realise it’s about time I start walking my own talk and stay true to my creative self.

Do you walk your own talk? And have you been true to your creative self? If not, how could you become more true to your creative path?