I went to a great author panel at the Napa Bookmine earlier this month, featuring five members of the group Write On Mamas and I left feeling unexpectedly hopeful. They began writing together nearly two decades ago, whenthey were all at totally different places in their lives and writing careers. Back then, they wouldn't even have called their writing anything more than a hobby, a secret dream. A spark that burned despite all of their doubts. None had published a book yet. T