Your Host For the Actually Writing Writers Weekend and Networking Event
This event is hosted by Safire and Jackie Breezer, two local Milwaukee writers with a passion for inspiring and connecting the writing community. Both Safire and Jackie are engineers whose love of writing sparked major career shifts that better support their writing endeavors. They are both organizers of a local Milwaukee writer's group https://www.meetup.com/shutupandwritemilwaukee/
Jackie Breezer always loved writing and reading but took a lengthy detour into the corporate world. After winning her first "Nanowrimo" contest in 2017 she vowed to find a way to make writing a priority. It took some time, but her novel will finally be published in 2023. You can find her blog at www.beyondlimitsunited.com/blog.
Safire wrote often growing up but stopped for a career in Engineering. Needing a creative outlet started she writing again years later. With an eagerness for writing and community, she left the corporate world to start her own Bed and Breakfast. Now, as a travel consultant, she has made sure there is plenty of time for writing. You can find her blog at https://knittinggold.blogspot.com
Special Guest Breakout Leader: Aleksandra Kamila Krzywicka
Aleksandra Kamila Krzywickahas lived all over: Poland, the U.S., and Taiwan. She is an immigrant, teacher, and entrepreneur. She also enjoys reading and writing epic fantasy in the same vein as The Witcher and Game of Thrones. Mildly obsessed with dragons and Science Fiction, she completed her MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Riverside. She is writing a memoir about how one year of practicing shamanism has changed her life.
Special Guest Breakout Leader: Paul Austin Ardoin
Paul Austin Ardoin is the USA TODAY bestselling indie author of The Fenway Stevenson Mysteries, The Woodhead & Becker Mysteries, and the writers' guide From Zero to Four Figures: Making $1,000 a Month with Self-Published Fiction. He holds a B.A. in creative writing from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an M.B.A. in marketing from the University of Phoenix. His nonfiction has been published in Indie Author Magazine, Channel Futures, and European Communication, and he's appeared on the writing podcasts Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing, Kobo Writing Life, The Author Wheel, and The Bestseller Experiment. Paul recently moved to Milwaukee with his wife and dogs, and his two sons both attend Marquette University.
