Writing a book is a major achievement. Ask anyone who has ever kissed their manuscript as they mailed it to their editor, or fist pumped right before they pressed “send.” But the writing is just the beginning. With the traditional publishing industry undergoing liposuction in every way, the marketing, the talking it up, the ...
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Just this morning, I did the thing experienced mothers aren’t supposed to do. I lost it on my daughter. She’s 11 and I’m 52. That makes me the adult. In fact, last year I was the oldest living mother in elementary school. It got me thinking I should try Botox injections to look like those women who come to take children away from school. I decided to ...
The book-as-baby analogy, birth as a metaphor for publishing a novel, is just a little too pat. Some talented folks who write diligently each day can conceive of and pop out a book annually. And when I grow up, I aspire to do that too, to write for three hours a day, every day. But that doesn’t seem possible right ...
My own mother’s words loomed large before I got pregnant, “do the things you want to do before you get married and have babies.” And it was great advice. By the time I gave birth to our first child, I had climbed the ladder in the marketing world, traveled and lived overseas. My dream was to write a book and although I had cranked out a few measly ...