by Laura | Jul 29, 2014 | Book Publishing Topics
I recently read a great interview on the site, Creative Nonfiction. Kristina Marusic interviews Emily Loose on the publishing business, secret ingredients to successful nonfiction and approaching agents. Loose has worked at big publishing houses, has taken seventeen...
by Laura | Jul 23, 2014 | Baby Matrix related
Meet Ashleigh from Australia. She recently read my book, The Baby Matrix, and I just have to share her review and experience titled, “Parenting as a Path to Fulfillment or an Assumption?” “As I continue my quest to find out more about parenthood and...
by Laura | Jun 17, 2014 | Baby Matrix related, Nonfiction Related
A popular pronatalist assumption is that we’ll just “know” how to parent when we have children. The truth is we see far too many people who are unfit parents. Rather than think we’re all supposed to be naturally good at it, when it comes to...
by Laura | Jun 2, 2014 | Editing-Writing How To
Opera Legend Jessye Norman has new memoir out, and I caught a lovely interview with her by PBS Newshour’s Jeffrey Brown. In it, I was struck by how some of the things she said about finding the sound and feel of one’s voice relate to writers finding their...
by Laura | May 27, 2014 | Nonfiction Related
Part of what “live true” means in my LiveTrue Book collection includes works that can be described as “telling it true.” I am reading a book right now titled, Super Friends by Whitney Holwadel, that does just that. It’s a moving story, and a hard look at our federal...
