The following is a guest post I wrote for Self-Publishing Resources:

I first heard about Kamy Wicoff long before She Writes burst onto the scene in June 2009. I’d been working at Seal Press for five years by that point, and I’d contacted her in 2007 to blurb a book I’d acquired called Offbeat Bride. Kamy had written a book called I Do but I Don’t, and I’d heard somewhere from someone that she was a fan of Seal Press and a huge supporter of women writers.

So I wasn’t at all surprised—though totally inspired!—when she created She Writes with Deborah Siegel, an online community geared toward supporting women writers.

I contacted her pretty shortly after they launched to say I wanted to be involved, and that was it for a while. I was featured on She Writes as a preferred provider. I continued to follow what She Writes was up to. It seemed that every single author I’d ever worked with was a member, and my friend base at She Writes started to grow based on my Seal connections alone.

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