to name a  few.  The  pandemic  birthed Shooting The Shit With Vicki, an interactive community-building talk show, also Live @5 PM PT,  Mondays, also on The Facebook. Her fictionalized memoir, the five-star #1 Amazon Bestseller, Don’t Jump: Sex Drugs, Rock ’N Roll… And My Fucking Mother, published by Carl Reiner’s Random Content, was named One of the 7 Best Books By Or About Women, made the San Diego Book Review’s Best of, and was a #1 Best Summer Read on Amazon. For twelve+ years (BC - before COVID), Vicki presented the crème de la crème of the music, screen, and literary worlds at her bi-coastal celebrity-driven literary salon, Vicki Abelson's Women Who Write. Guests included: Ed Asner, Garry Marshall, Cloris Leachman, Eric Roberts, Jackie Collins, Paul Williams, Valerie Harper, Mike Nesmith, and Micky Dolenz to name but a few. A featured contributor to The Huffington Post, The Fix, Upworthy, and Reimagine, Vicki leads writer’s workshops, does speaking engagements,  and coaches privately, in the real and cyber worlds.