I hope you will check out this conversation my sister — Paula Brand — and I had with the wonderful midlife mentor Helene Stelian. Paula and I both published books the same day! They seem so different: Paula’s book is a fantastic guide to help women through midlife career transition; mine a two-book romance novel series — though it’s non-traditional, as the characters are in midlife and struggle through complications and challenges not faced by the usual, much-younger protagonists of many romance novels. As we launched our books, however, and did some promotion together as sisters, we realized were both writing to empower women — maybe in the bedroom; maybe in the boardroom — the common themes were right there. Taking control of our lives and forging a new direction!