Oh, it makes me sad to even look at my last post. So depressing. Lauren McKenna was a major disappointment. She arrived at my critique with a pina colada in hand. Professional? I don’t think so. She was young and blonde and too cool for the South Carolina Writer’s Workshop conference. She told me, “You’re [...]
It’s a rainy morning and I’m getting prepared for the South Carolina Writer’s Workshop this weekend. I’m very excited. I have a manuscript critique with Lauren McKenna who is a senior editor with Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon&Schuster and “America’s first paperback publisher”. Pocket publishes memoir and narrative non-fiction among many others and while I [...]
I’m excited to announce that Christina Katz of The Writer Mama (among other things) has asked me to be a contributing writer for her WM blog! The column will be called Self Care for Mom Writers and so I’ll work this week to come up with some interesting and motivating topics for fellow mom writers [...]
I have an essay that will be published in the November issue of skirt! magazine called, telling the truth about diabetes. I realized as I worked on the essay that I’d spent so much time and energy trying to act like everyone else and denying my disease that I’d made myself invisible. I spent so much [...]
I read about a new online magazine called WAHM (work at home moms) The complete magazine for work at home parents on the Practicing Writer newsletter, written by Erika Dreifus. I was immediately drawn to their magazine because I am in the middle of a crisis.
We’re almost out of money and need to figure out what to do. [...]
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