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Hiding for My Life Chosen as a Best Indie Book of 2024

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https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/solt-balances-personal-liberation-and-duty Guess whose book is in Kirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Books of 2024 Top 100 list?!? Yep. Mine. Lil’ ol’ Hiding for My Life: Being Gay in the Navy. To say that I am thrilled would be an understatement. Kirkus reviews 10,000 books each year, so to be in their top 100 is an beautiful […]

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All Future Posts are on Substack

Uncategorized / By ksolt

Hi Friends, I am excited to be creating a Hideology™ community on Substack. Here’s the link: https://hideology.substack.com/ I’m sharing my initial post here, so that you’ll see what I’m doing and where it’s going. Thank you…Here’s the post ⬇️⬇️⬇️ As a Combat Hideologist, hiding—or what I coined: Hideology™—is my field of expertise. I have lived

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Memoir Land Author Questionnaire Link

Writing / By ksolt

A true joy to be interviewed by Sari Botton on Lit Lab (Memoir Land) June 11th, 2024 The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #16: Retired Gay Sailor Karen Solt

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Putting Truth to the Page in Memoir Writing (Writer’s Digest Essay)

Writing / By ksolt

Here is the essay I wrote that was published in Writer’s Digest on June 4th, 2024: Putting Truth to the Page in Memoir Writing

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GO Magazine Spotlight

Good News / By ksolt

Link to GO Magazine’s 100 Women We Love: Class of 2024

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Your Attention Matters

A Search for Meaning, How we Hide, Self-Insight and Growth, Uncategorized / By ksolt

We live in a world where we are constantly targeted for our attention and are being pulled off our center to fulfill someone else’s agenda. So today, I wanted to share some thoughts about showing up more centered and peaceful by reclaiming our attention and time—our most precious irreplaceable commodity. A few years ago, my

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Be Like Water

1 Comment / Self-Insight and Growth / By ksolt

Here are a few anti-hiding factoids: If you’re in resistance to—pushing away—your life, you’re in some way hiding. On the other hand, if you’re flowing with your life and allowing yourself to experience everything coming your way…you are not in hiding. Most of us are in some form of resistance at any given time, whether it be

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When Writing is the Remedy (Guest Blog by Kristin Kaye)

mental health, Self-Insight and Growth, Stories, Writing / By ksolt

Note from Karen: I had the honor of sitting down with Kristin Kaye, published author and my book coach, to talk about writing—when the writing becomes facing trauma, when the writing is tough. For over a year, Kristin held my hand as I dove into—read: became consumed with—writing my pre-published memoir. Her thoughts on writing, When

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Do What Scares You

A Search for Meaning, How we Hide, Self-Insight and Growth / By ksolt

You’re not going to like these next words, but to come out from hiding and live in your truth, you will have to dig deep into the dark places that you have been trying to avoid for a long time. However, there is nothing more fulfilling than coming back out. It’s scary—this digging. It’s a

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Closed Minds are in Hiding

A Search for Meaning, How we Hide, Self-Insight and Growth / By ksolt

Look all the way left. Then look all the way right. What do you think you will find? Since you aren’t looking left again, you won’t find a safe way to cross the street. In this scenario, you won’t find safety at all. What you will find is one of the most dangerous things a

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