Barbara Brabec

AFTER 21 YEARS on her first domain (BarbaraBrabec.com), Barbara opened her all-new “Barbara Brabec’s World” in November 2021 at BarbaraBrabecProductions.com.

While her first domain served the interests and needs of home-business owners, crafts marketers, and authors in need of her professional services, this new site reflects the author’s current personal and professional life and work, her goals and Christian beliefs, and especially her writing and publishing interests. This personal domain features her biographical memoirs, professional services for writers and authors interested in self-publishing, a “Brabec Bulletin” newsletter, and a rich archive of her best articles and reports through the years, all updated for today’s times.

Self-employed at home for most of her adult life, Barbara began her writing and publishing career with husband Harry in 1971 by launching Artisan Crafts, a quarterly magazine that thrived until a long recession brought that venture to a close in 1976.

Then motivated to become a professional writer, she quickly achieved success as a freelance writer, magazine columnist, and publisher of home-business newsletters. Her visibility as an industry leader attracted the attention of trade book publishers.

Between 1979 and 2006, she published six trade books, most of which enjoyed revised editions. Two of those books—Creative Cash and Homemade Money—were decades-long best sellers and classics in their individual fields. But all good things eventually come to an end. All these business-related books are long out of date, essentially out of print, and thus no longer recommended for purchase.

When widowed in 2005 after nearly 44 years of marriage and many years of leadership in the home business industry, Barbara reinvented herself as a writer, editor, independent publisher, and author’s consultant. After writing and publishing two biographical memoirs in 2010 and 2017 and teaching a series of life-writing workshops in 2018, she decided to focus on writing only about LIFE and all the surprises, challenges, opportunities, and adventures it holds for each and everyone who is striving to live life fully, joyfully, and abundantly.

Of herself Barbara says, “I’m just a writer who has always written about what she knows, and a teacher who has learned that the best lessons are those taught by example.”