Metaphor for Your Business

Hopefully you’ve seen our contest to win Sue William Silverman‘s new book How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences. I think you will find her work, and her stories, really speaks to women writers. And listened to our podcast featuring Sue. If you’re like me, you may have really started to think about metaphors… and … Read more

Back to the future with Amy Wallen

So far 2020 has been … I don’t even know. We started our 2nd year with all kinds of ideas for the future then a pandemic that has thrown our whole Plume plans into… we don’t know. We do know we’re still focusing on our mission, which may now be more important than ever, to … Read more

Support Local with Audiobooks

Hello, friends. How are you? We hope that you are all hanging in there okay. It’s a strange, overwhelming time in the world right now, and it is our hope that you are safe and healthy. So many businesses are struggling and/or shut down right now, and one that has been on our minds (brace … Read more

A Year in Plume

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This year at Plume has been quite a whirlwind. I returned from maternity leave in January (and Jennifer had been doing such great job holding down the fort!), and we hit the ground running for year two. As both entrepreneurs and writers, we continue to grow and learn every day, and we are excited to … Read more

A Plume Anthology

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A Year in Plume It’s been a year now since Jennifer and I started Plume. What a wild ride! From first putting our early ideas together, to entering the business plan competition, to launching a Kickstarter to get the venture off the ground, to choosing featured writers, to packing and shipping our first Plume packages, … Read more

The Five Ws of Plume

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Hello, friends (a.k.a. Plumesters)! We hope that your transition from winter into spring is going well. Over here at Plume we’re busy with our day-to-day operations and with coming up with new ideas for how to foster a supportive writing community. Sometimes, though, it can be easy to forget to slow down a little and … Read more

Plume’s gratitude journal

In this world it is SO easy to get caught up in what we don’t have, especially as writers.  Everyone (but me) has publication credits, everyone (but me) earns their money with their writing, everyone else (but me) has interesting things to write about, everyone (but me) has immense talent…   Then there’s refugees,wildfires, hurricanes, elections, … Read more