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Community-Wide Shop Talk

Aug 17, 2025

Online event

Potholes & Perseverance

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A Debut Author's Long and Whining Road to Publication

Join us for a community-wide virtual shop talk by Vicky Lorencen. She will share her journey and discuss what it takes to make it, when it's okay to call it quits, plus more. ⭐Sun, August 17th, 2-3:00 pm⭐

Vicky Lorencen’s journey is one part perpetual construction zone and one part dream come spew. Join the author of THE BIG BOOK OF BARF for a virtual road trip that kicks off with a kindergartner’s dream that leads to a senior’s stunning reality.

Let’s talk about what it takes to make it and when it’s okay to call it quits, plus . . .

  •  Vicky’s biggest regret—and how you can avoid it.
  • The value of a PMS retreat. (It’s not what you think it is.)
  • The #1 game-changing opportunity you should never drive past.
  • How fear sent Vicky on a detour toward success.

And—pull over at the next rest stop!—what in the hurl made her write a BIG book all about BARF?!


*Big THANKS to the Kalamazoo Area Shop Talk (K.A.S.T.) coordinators for hosting this presentation!