by Laura | May 16, 2014 | Childfree Book-Related
In author J.O. Raber’s words, Famous – But No Children “is about people who have made an important difference because they were more oriented toward making that difference than toward living the conventional life of rearing children. This is not to say that people...
by Laura | May 13, 2014 | Baby Matrix related, Pronatalism
I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed on The Exchange Show. Host Dan Riley interviews “noteworthy people about their lives, ideas, and current events.” Dan and I talked about how my book Families of Two came to be, an array of childfree topics...
by Laura | May 9, 2014 | Pronatalism
With Mother’s Day around the corner,an insightful piece from 2012 by writer Anne Lamott is sure worth the read. She explains why Mother’s Day “celebrates a huge lie about the value of women”: “I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother’s Day. I...
by Laura | May 5, 2014 | Book Publishing Topics
Ever thought about writing a memoir? A client of mine who is in the midst of writing a memoir passed on this insightful interview excerpt with Salman Rushdie at Emory University in 2011. He explains why the best of memoirs employ the novelistic technique. Check it...
by Laura | Apr 24, 2014 | Book Related - General
With all the happiness studies out there (for example, recall the all the hubbub about who’s happier, parents or the childfree?), here’s a new one related to book lovers – more specifically library goers. Check this out. NPR Books News by Annalisa Quinn has an...
