SPIRITED WOMAN CIRCLE

SPIRITED WOMAN CIRCLE CONVERSATION SERIES

Your Chance To Chat With Famous Authors & Media Personalities

Spirited Woman launches our 2009 Spirited Woman Circle! It's our fourth season!

Here's your chance to participate in a lively and inspiring series of 1-hour Telechats with an array of famous women authors. Our present and past guests combined have sold more than 40 million books!

In an up close and personal way, you'll talk with women you'd probably never get a chance to talk with. Think of our "live" chats as your very own telephone coffee club or lunch bunch. And you don't have to leave your house or office!

Nancy Mills, ebullient founder of Spirited Woman, moderates the series, and interviews the guests for the first half-hour. Then YOU get to ask questions.

All "Live" telechats are FREE. If you miss a call or want to re-listen to it, you can PURCHASE the recorded MP3 for $15, the CD for $25. Also, be sure and check out our past library of conversations. Awesome.

CONVERSATION WITH KIMBERLA LAWSON ROBY

Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 10 am (PST), 1 pm (EST)

Popular author, Kimberla Lawson Roby has published 12 novels including her latest book, The Best of Everything.  Her novels have frequented numerous bestseller lists, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Essence Magazine, Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, and more. In addition, Kim's first novel, Behind Closed Doors (which she self-published) was nominated for Blackboard’s 1998 and 1999 Fiction Book of the Year Award. In 2001, she received the Blackboard Fiction Book of the Year Award for Casting the First Stone. She was the 2006 and 2007 winner of the Author of the Year – Female award presented by the African-American Literary Award Show in New York. Kim resides in Illinois with her husband, Will. Her 13th  book, A Deep Dark Secret, will be released fall 2009. 

In her "live" 1-hour conversation, Kim will talk about her road to success, why each one of her books have dealt with very real issues such as single motherhood, domestic violence, sexual harassment, infidelity and other relevant topics, what inspires her to write, the influence her mother had on her life, and more.

Get up close and personal with Kim. She is really delighted to chat with you.

Name
Email
City/State

CONVERSATION WITH LISA JACKSON

Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 10 am (PST), 1 pm (EST)

Mega-selling thriller author Lisa Jackson has been helping to kill people everywhere from Savannah and New Orleans to San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest. Her novel Fatal Burn was a #1 New York Times paperback bestseller in April 2006 and her first hardcover novels, Shiver and Absolute Fear, were on best selling book lists nationwide. Her newer books -  Almost Dead, Left to Die and Lost Souls - continued her best seller streak. In April 2009, her latest book Malice, co-written with her sister, writer Nancy Bush, will be released. When's Lisa's not busy killing off people, she enjoys her time surrounded by family, babysitting dogs of various types and walking through the surf, near her home in the Pacific Northwest.

In her "live" 1-hour conversation, Lisa will talk about how she has developed such a murderous mind. how her family encouraged her to write, why writing fills her soul (she even wrote for the soaps!), and how she keeps her life of mother, daughter, and writer in balance, and more.

Get up close and personal with Lisa (well not to close) she looks forward to chatting with you.

Name
Email
City/State

CONVERSATION WITH PAMELA REDMOND SATRAN

Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 10 am (PST), 1 pm (EST)

Pamela Redmond Satran is the author of 14 books, a columnist for Glamour, a writer for such publications as The Daily Beast and The New York Times, a blogger on The Huffington Post and a web developer. She's co-authored nine bestselling baby-naming books, including Beyond Jennifer & Jason and Cool Names for Babies, which have sold close to two million copies and are the center of a new website, nameberry.com. Her latest book, How Not To Act Old, will be released August 2009 and is based on a her blog hownottoactold.com. She lives in Montclaire, New Jersey, with her husband, and is the mother of two sons and a daughter.

In her "live" 1-hour conversation, Pam will talk about moving a successful book franchise onto the web, and then the reverse, creating a successful blog and having it turned into a book, what it's like to start and run a hometown group of 760 writers and editors, and how one of her Glamour Lists, "Things Every Woman Should Have & Should Know," has become a web sensation, often attributed to Maya Angelou, and more.

Get up close and personal with Pam. She is ready to yada yada yada with you.

Name
Email
City/State

CONVERSATION WITH JENNIE NASH

Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 10 am (PST), 1 pm (EST)

Author Jennie Nash's fifth novel, The Only True Genius in the Family, is a
novel about art, inheritance and jealousy. Her novels and memoirs center
around women in search of their true selves, and for each of them, she has
devised clever marketing strategies. For her novel, The Last Beach Bungalow, Jennie went on a book tour sponsored by Benjamin Moore Paints. For her memoir, The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming and Other Lessons I Learned From Breast Cancer, she worked with Ford Motor Company and appeared on the Rosie O'Donnell Show. Jennie is an LA-based writer, breast cancer survivor, inspirational speaker, mother and an instructor at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.

In her "live" 1-hour conversation, Jennie will talk about the  
difference between writing memoir and fiction, the role cancer and creativity have played in her work, her ideas about marketing your own writing, how to balance family and writing, and more.

Get up close and personal with Jennie. She is thrilled to chat with you.

Name
Email
City/State

CONVERSATION WITH DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK

Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 10 am (PST), 1 pm (EST)

Maintaining the tradition of great southern writers, Dorothea Benton Frank is a widely popular New York Times best selling author. Her 10th book Return to Sullivans Island (a sequel to her first book) launches June 30th. Some of her other hits include Bulls Island and The Land of the Mango Sunsets. She's appeared on NBC's Today Show, and been a guest speaker at the South Carolina Book Festival, Novello, North Carolina's festival of books and the Book and Author annual event in Charleston, SC, sponsored by the Post & Courier. Born and raised on Sullivan's Island in South Carolina, Dot has been married for 25 years to Peter Frank. She divides her time between New Jersey and South Carolina where their children attend college. 

In her "live" 1-hour conversation, Dot will talk about how growing up on Sullivan's Island has influenced her writing, how she began her writing career mid-life, the passion she has for the arts and the creative process, how desire to make a difference, and more.

Get up close and personal with Dot. This spirited woman is excited to chat about her life with other spirited women.

Name
Email
City/State

PAST CONVERSATION WITH KELLY CORRIGAN

NEW! Listen to Kelly Corrigan in a 2-min. audio clip from her 53-min. conversation.

Kelly Corrigan is the author of the hugely successful and widely popular The Middle Place (2008), her memoir about day to day family life and her fight to live through breast cancer. Kelly's moving video, Transending: Words on Women and Strength - an internet phenomenon - has been seen by more than 4 million viewers on You Tube and sites across the world. A popular speaker, she is an advocate for supporting women with breast cancer (Circus of Cancer), and is deeply interested in faith and people who have it. Kelly lives with her family in San Francisco, California.

In her "live" 1-hour conversation, Kelly talked about how her ebullient Dad influenced her to write The Middle Place, how her mom's friends, "The Pigeons," influenced her belief in friendships, her philosophical growth from a daughter to a mom, how breast cancer inspired her life, her desire to support others in their quests, and more.

Kelly's conversation was honest, supporting and uplifting. She's a talented gift to us all.

"I enjoyed every minute of it. It was an excellent conversation. She is so so sweet and sincere. Thanks." - Catherine Yesayan

Click Here to purchase. CD & MP3 available.

PAST CONVERSATION WITH CLAIRE COOK

NEW! Listen to Claire Cook in a 2-min. audio clip from her 52-min. conversation.

Bestselling author Claire Cook will be telechating with us on the day that her new novel, The Wildwater Walking Club, officially launches. Very exciting. Her new book is about the joy of friendship and the magic of movement. Claire is also the author of five other bestselling novels, including Summer Blowout, Life’s a Beach, and Must Love Dogs, which was made into a major movie starring Diane Lane and John Cusack. Her books have received numerous book "picks" - from Book Sense, Good Morning America, People magazine, BarnesandNoble.com Book Club - and more. One of our last year's guest, Jacquelyn Mitchard proclaims, "Claire Cook is wicked good."

In her "live" 1-hour conversation, Claire talked about how she wrote her first novel, Ready to Fall (2000), in her Ford Windstar outside her daughter's swim practice at five in the morning, what it was like to have one of her books turned into a major movie, her love of writing, her determination to succeed, and more.

Claire's conversation was filled with joy, laughter, and enthusiasm. She is refreshingly candid about her life.

Click Here to purchase. CD & MP3 available.

PAST CONVERSATION WITH ANNIE VANDERBILT

NEW! Listen to Annie Vanderbilt in a 3-min. audio clip from her 53-min. conversation.

A compelling new voice in women's fiction, Annie Vanderbilt recently published her hit debut novel, The Secret Papers of Madame Olivetti while in her 50's. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she met her husband, Bill Vanderbilt, at Harvard. Together they've  gone on wilderness adventures worldwide for the past 40 years. Annie's worked as a carpenter, woodcarver, led backcountry programs, and run a ski touring business. Presently, she's writing her second novel and we're proud to say Annie was one of our first Spirited Woman Guest Bloggers. She divides her time between Idaho and Sanibel, Florida.  

In her "live" 1-hour conversation, Annie talked about how her fall off a cliff changed her life and writing career, what it's like to be a debut novelist in your 60's, and how she survived the loss of her unpublished manuscript (Yesterday's Woman) to a fire, and more.

Annie's conversation was tremendously candid and filled with spirit.

"Annie left me breathless. What a story! and such an inspiration as my mother would say "just keep moving ahead" and she certainly did. She is an inspiration! Thank you again." - Elaine Carroll

Click Here to purchase. CD & MP3 available.