In 2003, a group of about sixty women met each other online for the first time. They were finalists for the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart award – the top measure of achievement for unpublished writers in the industry. Like finalists before them, they formed an Internet loop to discuss the upcoming awards ceremony at the national convention, held that year in New York.

Most of these online loops dissolve shortly after the convention, but something happened on the way to the Big Apple. This particular group found they had a level of camaraderie unknown to them before. Instead of breaking up after some finalists won their category and some lost, they stayed together - through births and deaths, the inevitable agent and editor rejections, and giddy-making first  sales. At some point, one of them expressed doubt about her worth and talent, and another one threatened to cover the miles between them, picking up other members along the way, to thrash her with a wet noodle until she remembered that she was a good writer with good friends.

That’s how the Wet Noodle Posse was born.

Noodlers are international. In addition to our American members, scattered all over the country, there are Noodlers in South Korea, Australia, and Canada. Our diversity is reflected in the stories we tell. Our romance novels are about vampires and Scots, time travel and Regency misses, firefighters and elves, criminologists and fashionistas. Some of us also write women’s fiction, Regency chick-lit, and self-help. A great many of us are published writers now, and first sales continue to come in, but we also have members who do other things, like running an online store or studying fashion design. Noodlers support each other, no matter where our hearts take us. 

We wanted to share the support and silliness we get from each other with a larger audience of women. So we created an e-zine that included all the things we take comfort from: food, crafts, books, good advice, and lots of humor.

For almost four years we’ve provided you with the wonderful articles in the e-zine, ways to feel good about yourself, to be good to yourself. Times change, though, and the e-zine has come to an end. Our articles remain here for you, however, because we’re proud of them and they can still help you to be good to yourself.

We’re not going away, though. The Wet Noodle Posse has a blog, a place we can continue to encourage you to be good to yourself. We are focusing all of 2008 on How to Write, so if you are writing, too, or if you are just interested in the writing process, come visit us.