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...
by Laura | May 21, 2014 | On a Personal Note
Have you seen the recently released book, Kid Me Not: An Anthology by Childfree Women of the 60s Now in their 60s. Is that a clever book idea or what. And the life accounts in it give readers a good look into a generation of women making the childfree choice at a...
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...
