Linda Bannan's Got A Blog!

After months of encouragement and some adamant nagging from my coach, Nancy Marmolejo, I'm blogging! Of course, I should be putting the final touches on my Justifying Jackie book proposal but here I sit...speaking to the universe!

Over 17 months Justifying Jackie evolved from a hands-on creativity project at The Writers Spa to an inspirational "Golden Book for Grown-Up Women." Every woman who reads or hears the book relates and wants to share Jackie's message with the special women in her life.

Justifying Jackie traces a life path that nearly all women connect with on some level. Justifying Jackie is a call to action--a call to rediscover our creativity and the passions and dreams we put aside years ago. Justifying Jackie encourages women to connect with the feisty little girl spirit that dwells within each of us...To add creative play to our lives...To see the world around us and paint it or write about it or simply celebrate it!

By next Wednesday, proposals will be on their way to various potential publishers in search of the right place to come into the world at large. Justifying Jackie will help me fullfill

my creative mission:

To motivate women to connect with their feisty, creative, little-girl spirits.

Justifying Jackie will help me do that...so I'd better get crackin' on that proposal!

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw