The Girls in the Basement

“I have numerous Barbara Samuel quotes taped up over my computer to inspire me. Nobody knows the writer's heart or the artist's soul better than Barbara Samuel.”

~Teresa Medeiros, New York Times bestselling author of
GOODNIGHT TWEETHEART

The Care and Feeding of The Girls in the Basement The Girls in the Basement Celebration Book
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The Girls in the Basement is an upbeat collection of stories, challenges, and meditations on the writing life, meant to nourish writers at every point along the road, from multi-published to just starting out.   Learn how to fill the well and take care of your muses and yourself so that you can write your best work, all the time, for ten, twenty, fifty years.

Fans of Bird by Bird, The Artist’s Way, and Writing Down the Bones will find inspiration in multi-award winning novelist Barbara Samuel’s Girls in the Basement series.

Barbara Samuel is the award-winning, highly acclaimed author of more than forty novels and hundreds of essays.  A popular teacher, she has offered her upbeat, inspirational, hands-on workshops to many, many groups of writers around the world, including Italy, Australia, New Zealand and British Columbia.  

Read her blog on the writing life at A Writer afoot dot com and visit her website Barbara Samuel dot com for a list of all books available.