Announcing the winner of the YOU MADE ME A MOTHER GIVEAWAY — Plus an interview with the author, Laurenne Sala
I’m SUPER excited to announce the winner of the YOU MADE ME A MOTHER giveaway: RUTH EBENSTEIN Congratulations, Ruth! Please shoot me an email via the online contact form here […]
Mardi Gras Food and Fun in New Orleans
I’m still trying to figure out Instagram, but I do know what a LaterGram is — and this is the blog version! 2017 has been busy so far. I’ve been […]
Finding a Literary Agent: Acing the Much Anticipated Phone Call
Well, we’re one week out from the shocking US Presidential election that has left so many devastated. I’m personally just starting to claw myself out of a well of despair. […]
On Writing, Motherhood, Inclusion and #BinderCon
This weekend the Out of the Binders Conference for women and gender non-conforming writers is happening in New York. The event known as BinderCon offers keynotes, like today’s apparently amazing […]
Finding a Literary Agent: Plotting Your Submission Strategy
So your project feels ready. You’ve compiled a list of literary agents you want to approach, and you’ve drafted a query letter. Now it’s time for the rubber to hit […]
Finding a literary agent: how do you decide who to query?
Ok, I promised to share some tips for finding a literary agent and negotiating the query process, but I’ve decided to break things up into manageable chunks, since I do […]
Writing, Me, and Carli Lloyd
Earlier this summer, I wrote an essay about that tragic pool party in McKinney, Texas, where police overreacted, with guns drawn, to a complaint from a white mom about noisy […]
Women Writers: Apply for a Residency at Hedgebrook!
A few days ago I hit send on my application for a 2016 residency at Hedgebrook, the artistic retreat center for women writers on Whidbey Island in Washington. Last year, […]
My Kids Kind of Helped Me Write an Essay for Redbook
This week I wrote a light-hearted essay about texting with my kids for Redbook. I had so much fun looking through some of the texts we’d exchanged in the last […]
Do Not Delete Your Memoir
This week staff writer Kara Brown published a snarky piece at Jezebel titled Delete Your Memoir. She writes: Go ahead, do it. Drag and drop. Hold down the “delete” […]
