Announcing the winner of the YOU MADE ME A MOTHER GIVEAWAY — Plus an interview with the author, Laurenne Sala
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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” […]