One of the pens behind the press
June Marlowe
Self improvement · Creativity · Gentle methods that stick
June writes for people who are done with punishing routines. Her books trade cold showers for quiet hours, perfection for practice, and guilt for a habit you can actually keep. If a method needs a 5am alarm to work, June politely does not believe in it.
10 books in print · 11 journal pieces
Books by June Marlowe
Small Brave Things
Self Improvement
The Gentle Art of Finishing
Self Improvement
A Studio the Size of a Table
Making Things Again in the Small Corner of a Real Life
Top 10 Reasons Why Women Cheat
Self Improvement
Top 10 Reasons Why Men Cheat
Self Improvement
The Art of Beginning Again
A Gentle Field Guide to Starting Over
The Quiet Hour
Reclaim one hour before the world wakes up, and watch what it does to the other twenty-three
Draw Every Day, Badly
Thirty days of sketching for people who swear they cannot draw
A Field Guide to Ideas
Where ideas like to hide, how to catch them, and how to keep them alive long enough to use
Write Tiny
Micro fiction, six-word memoirs, and the craft of saying more with much less
June Marlowe in the journal
- The clocks go back this weekend, and your routine is allowed to wobble
- The sentence I leave unfinished on purpose
- A reader asks how to begin again after missing a whole week
- Small permissions I have been handing myself lately
- What to do on the days you do not feel like it
- You do not owe the new season a new you
- The smallest possible start
- In praise of the unfinished book
- You are allowed to be bad at it
- In defence of missing a day
- Small things, no alarm required