Secrets of the Zona Rosa How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives

For more than twenty-four years, Rosemary DaniellSouthern belle, successful writer, and tireless champion of female empowermenthas led Zona Rosa, a writing workshop for women thats founded on the premise that writing can be not only a creative challenge but a tool for healing. Here, she shares the secrets of Zona Rosa: practical advice and home-grown Exorcises that help you face and think through writing issues, and life in general. Youll learn how to avoid the 13 (Possible) Boo Boos that plague everyones writing. Youll bring yourself to Write About the Thing I Most Dont Want to Write About and will learn how facing the difficult past can lead to breakthroughs. Youll discover The Emotional Tai Chi of Getting Your Work Out There, with suggestions for painlessly sending your work into the world. Along the way, youll meet some of the many women whove improved their writingand livesthrough the sisterhood, constructive advice, and wacky fun of Zona Rosa. And youll be inspired by Daniell herself, whos weathered personal tragedy, bad love, and her own writing issues to come out singing. Secrets of the Zona Rosa is essential reading for any woman who writesand whos lived.

Rosemary Daniell is the founder and leader of Zona Rosa, a series of creative life-changing writing workshops attended by thousands of women (and the occasional manoccasionally men) over the past 24 twenty-five years. She is the author of The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself, Fatal Flowers,, Sleeping with Soldiers, and, four other works of poetry and prose, and four other books of poetry and prose. She has appeared on many national television and radio shows, has been featured in People and Southern Living, and speaks at writers' conferences around the country. Her awards include the 1999 Palimpsest Prize and two NEA Fellowships. She lives in Savannah, Georgia.