by Laura | Jan 31, 2014 | Pronatalism
In case you have not seen it, Amy Glass’ post on Thought Catalog had the digital waves smoking this week. Her post, “I Look Down on Young Women With Husbands And Kids and I’m Not Sorry” got Chris Jeub going to the point where he took on the whole childfree movement...
by Laura | Jan 28, 2014 | Nonfiction Related
The LiveTrue book collection comprises some of the best nonfiction books that relate to living a life that’s true to oneself, others and our world. One big area of living true involves the biggest decision we will make – whether to become parents. There are a...
by Laura | Jan 21, 2014 | Baby Matrix related
I have recently had the pleasure of being contacted by the founder of a new blog, Childfree Indian, who gets the many negative impacts pronatalism has on our world. To kick off the blog discussions, there is a cool offer-tell your story of being pressured to have kids...
by Laura | Jan 17, 2014 | Childfree Research-related
Hot off the research press are the results of two studies came out to add to the collection of research on who’s happiest — parents or those with no children. One was sponsored by Open University in Great Britain, and was based on an online survey of about...
by Laura | Jan 10, 2014 | Baby Matrix related
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by the awesome women at TheNotMom. President and Executive Editor Karen Malone Wright (pictured) started her website in 2011 that “embraces all women without children, including their diverse life stories about...
by Laura | Jan 7, 2014 | Book Publishing Topics
Writer and historian Elizabeth Abbott (pictured) recently posted some good tips for going about nonfiction book projects. Two of them often happen together and the third, which speaks to proposal development, goes beyond that – Let me explain. Abbott’s two...
by Laura | Jan 2, 2014 | Editing-Writing How To
Thinking of writing your first eBook this year? These days, many people think that writing an eBook is much easier than a traditional book. Not so… An eBook can be shorter than a traditional book, but not necessarily so. Even if it is shorter, it has to be...
by Laura | Dec 20, 2013 | Nonfiction Related
As you might imagine, I almost always have a good size stack of “to-read” nonfiction books. I’m a nonfiction hound, and also get a great ongoing stream of authors asking me to review their books and add them to the LiveTrue Collection. Here are just three making their...
by Laura | Dec 13, 2013 | Baby Matrix related
What a great year it has been! This year brought the integration of my La Vie Childfree blog, LiveTrue Book collection site, and my author site all into one — Here! It is the hub of where to find my books, the LiveTrue Bookstore, information on my services,...
by Laura | Dec 6, 2013 | Childfree Research-related
I recently had the pleasure of doing a Q&A with sociologist and criminologist, Kimya N. Dennis, who is currently conducting an interesting study on childfree Black women: What inspired you to do a study on childfree Black women? First, my sociological interests...
