Anne M Carley

A M (Anne) Carley, creator of the FLOAT CARDS FOR WRITERS (Chenille Books 2017) and author of FLOAT • BECOMING UNSTUCK FOR WRITERS (Be Well Here 2016), knows both sides of the ‘becoming unstuck’ experience: as a writer and as a coach who guides authors toward developing, completing, and polishing their writing projects. The FLOAT Cards offer thought-provoking, bite-sized sources of inspiration - and intervention - to get the creative juices flowing again for writers and other creatives. The card deck with accompanying online guide collects 52 ways you can revitalize your creative practice. In FLOAT • BECOMING UNSTUCK FOR WRITERS, Anne has curated best practices for overcoming challenges in writing, and arranged her observations and insights into the framework she calls the FLOAT Approach. Useful as a quick fix, or as a longer practice in writerly awareness, the book begins with this epigraph: Becoming Unstuck: Trust yourself. Use simple tools. Honor your wisdom. Connect with the clan of writers. Find your strength. BIOGRAPHY A M (Anne) Carley coaches authors to become unstuck, complete, and polish their narrative nonfiction, memoir, investigative, instructional, and other nonfiction manuscripts. Anne also guides writers along the journey from final manuscript to independently published book. From her office in Charlottesville, Virginia, Anne works with regional authors and, via phone and web, with writers everywhere. Her writer’s handbook, FLOAT: Becoming Unstuck for Writers, and the FLOAT Cards for Writers deck share her helpful approach with writers and creative people worldwide. Visit chenillebooks.com to learn more about how she works with writers. Anne is a published essayist on topics in the arts, public policy, intellectual property, and arts education for publications from ArtForum to Estate Planning magazine, and contributed an essay to the bestselling 2017 book, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens Again. Always an enthusiastic reader, as a young adult Anne fell in love with hot lead, publishing, and writing when she edited her high school newspaper. In college, she instigated Dial a Bedtime Story, a low-tech effort to calm down distressed fellow students by reading them her original stories over the phone. Her success as an independent arts consultant in New York City derived from her ability to craft agreements among artists, collectors, and arts institutions. She studied law at NYU in order to do this more thoroughly. During law school, an article based on her research on conceptual and minimal art appeared in ArtForum magazine, which led to more speaking and writing opportunities on topics in the arts, law, and technology. She edited a pioneering web-based arts, education, and technology magazine, The Arts4All Newsletter, for five years starting in 1999. After moving from New York to Charlottesville, Virginia, Anne established Chenille Books, where she provides creative coaching and develops books with nonfiction authors. Turning to creative nonfiction and fiction, she co-founded a local writer group. She has recently appeared on panels at the Virginia Festival of the Book, the Virginia Writers Club Annual Symposium, and the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. She is grateful to have been a Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) as a writer (2016) and composer (2008 and 2012). The FLOAT book was completed there. She presents workshops for writers throughout Central Virginia.  SELECTED PUBLICATIONS • FLOAT CARDS FOR WRITERS (Chenille Books, 2017) • "After MeToo" essay in #MeToo: Essays About How And Why This Happened, What It Means, And How to Make Sure It Never Happens Again (Riverdale Avenue Books, 2017) • FLOAT • BECOMING UNSTUCK FOR WRITERS (Be Well Here, 2016) • Editor’s Preface, Zack Bonnie’s Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir (Not with the Program, 2015). • NPR affiliate WVTF, Roanoke, VA: “Candle,” a radio essay, 2013. • Blog posts at amcarley.com, chenillebooks.com, annecarley.com, baccaliterary.com; guest blogs at janefriedman.com. • Editor’s Introductions, Biographical Notes, multiple publications from Brasstown Press, 2011-2015. • Virginia Educational Leadership: “Kid Pan Alley,” 2007. Article about Paul Reisler’s Kid Pan Alley program, bringing songwriting into the primary classroom. See www.amcarley.com. • The Arts4All Newsletter, online magazine,1999-2004). Founding editor and contributing writer of essays on the arts, technology, and education. For a partial list of essays, see: www.amcarley.com. • The NonProfit Times: “Gift Horses: The Offer that Can Be Refused,” 1999. • New York State Bar Association Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Journal: “Trailblazing the Internet” 1998. • New York State Bar Association Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Journal: “Who's Afraid of the Internet?” 1997. • Estate Planning Magazine, “When Art and Collectibles Are Property of an Estate,” 1994. • ArtForum Magazine: “Slant - Anne M. Carley and Amy Baker Sandback on Moral Right,” 1991.