Author of Water Cooler Diaries: Women across America Share Their Day at Work, popular speaking and writing instructor, Joni B. Cole, discusses her book, “Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive“.

Joni is also the creatorโ€จ of the acclaimed “This Day“–three-volume series, This Day: Diaries From American Women and This Day in the Life: Diaries from Women Across America–revealing the reality of aโ€จdiversity of American women’s daily lives (“both fascinating andโ€จ eye-opening,” Publisher’s Weekly).

Nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize,โ€จ Joni has published numerous essays in literary journals, and is a contributor to โ€จThe Writer Magazine [7 Myths About Feedback].

Her book Another Bad-Dog Story and Other True Talesโ€จwill be released this fall from PublishingWorks.

Joni lives with her family in Hartford, Vermont.