Strength in Numbers: How Three Out of Six Writing Group Pals Published in 2023

by Laura Beretsky, Bev Boisseau Stohl, and Jean Duffy

The odds of first authors getting published are not encouraging—some say we have as little as a 1 to 2% chance—but somehow our six-woman writing group crushed that statistic. How did we do it?

Our Page Six writing group formed six years ago after we all took a memoir writing class, and we still meet regularly to celebrate all of our progress, including that three of us (Laura, Bev, and Jean) became debut authors in 2023.

Our succe...