A librarian helping you thrive in your whole creative life.

Hi, I’m Faye—a librarian who wants to help you ignite your creative joy!

As a writer, editor, and librarian who has struggled with creative burnout, I founded Library of Care to share stories and tools to heal and nurture whole creative lives—like yours!

At Library of Care, you will find:

  • monthly creativity + well-being + joy themed workshops and events
  • 1:1 creative healing coaching for emerging artists and creative entrepreneurs 
  • curated resources and education to support creative well-being
  • engaging book group facilitation + well-being workshops for institutions that serve creative communities, entrepreneurs, healers, and helpers
  • regenerative writing to help you keep your creative power in my newsletter Keeping Creative Time on Substack

Our lives may have been built for burnout, but
we were born to create.

Upcoming Workshops & Events

Featured
Co-Create Hour with Keeping Creative Time (Virtual)
Jun 16
Co-Create Hour with Keeping Creative Time (Virtual)

  • You may run out of energy, but not creativity.

    Rick Rubin

  • I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

    Jorge Luis Borges

  • If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

    Cicero

  • Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.

    George Bernard Shaw

  • You must meet the outer world with your inner world or existence will crush you.

    Mark Nepo

Create With Me

  • Creativity Workshops & Classes for Creative Entrepreneurs

    Whether you’re struggling with time, energy, focus, purpose, or making space to reclaim your creative joy—burnout is real and it’s not a problem you can solve on your own (no matter how hard you try).

    Grow mighty in a community of peers who are regenerating from the ashes of burnout, one creative spark at a time with workshops that range from single events to multi-week series, parallel play, and community artists dates—there’s something new and fresh each season of the year.

    And for Creative Entrepreneurs like authors, artists, and makers I offer classes in DIY publicity and growing relationships with bookstores, libraries, and other community partners to sell your work.

    Find Your Next Workshop or Class

  • Editorial Services & DIY Publicity for Creative Entrepreneurs

    I offer editorial services and DIY publicity consults for authors, artists, and other creative entrepreneurs who want to hone their authentic writing voice, engage readers with short attention spans, and connect with hearts and minds during these divisive times.

    Whether that’s polishing the marketing copy in your media kit or line sheet, crafting a newsworthy press release or email newsletter, creating a uniform style for communicating with your audience, copy edits to a proposal or grant application, line edits to a manuscript, or maybe professional beta reading feedback on your next book—I’m your writer-editor-librarian gal.

    For DIY Publicity & Community Engagement Strategy Sessions BOOK A CONSULT.

    Get Editorial Support

  • Workshops + Book Club Facilitation for Institutions

    What if you could hire a librarian to-go? In person or virtually. Someone trained to facilitate creative audiences through books + empower participants to trust their own inner wisdom, seek curiosity over fear, practice over perfection, and creativity over anxiety.

    J. Faye D’Avanza is an information professional with over 20 years experience as a public librarian, a certified Inward & Artward Creative Facilitator, and a creative coach with Mountain BizWorks serving artists and entrepreneurs in Western North Carolina. She is available for virtual and in-person facilitation both locally and nationally.

    Hire Faye to Facilitate for Your Institution

Additional Creative Offerings

Be Well. Create. And Thrive!

  • The debut collection from Library of Care is emerging this spring! Featuring titles for [Re]pair, [Re]covery, & [Re]clamation.

    Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Bookshop.org and I will earn a commission if you click through and make a book purchase from one of the book links I’ve shared. ☺️ ❤️ 📚

  • This 60-minute strategy session is for those who seek clarity and guidance in connecting their creative work within communities. Whether you want to increase sales, grow your platform, reach new audiences, build community partnerships, or all of the above, this session will help you create a DIY publicity and community engagement roadmap to navigate your next small steps.

    The session is held over Zoom, and includes an audio recording plus notes and prompts inspired by our conversation.

    BOOK HERE

  • For those who are ready to commit to their whole creative life, I offer personalized 1:1 creative well-being coaching to help guide you through a life’s ebbs and flows, navigate change, and see where your habits, mindset, fears, and resistances are keeping you stuck.

    I offer a whole-person approach to the coaching process. I am mental-health informed, but not a mental health professional. Coaching is not a replacement for therapy, but is a welcome addition to other healing modalities.

    60-minute sessions are followed by personalized creative questions, book suggestions, email support and accountability.

    To learn more and join my waitlist, contact me via the Create With Me form HERE.

  • In addition to workshop + book club facilitation for institutions, I offer curation of a custom book collection that can be a welcome addition to your organization or workplace in growing a holistic culture of care that supports wellness, creativity, and connection.

Past Clients Include: