Author of the book, Zero to Five, Tracy Cutchlow contacted me through LinkedIn. (What’s up with LinkedIn anyway? Is anyone ever on LinkedIn? Maybe no one, except me and Tracy Cutchlow?) She asked if she could send me a copy of her new book about fostering learning in kids ages 0 to 5. I have a kid age 0 to 5. My…
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At an Author Reading Last Night Only Six People Showed Up (9 Tips On How to Get a Good Turn-Out at an Author Event)
9 fabulous tips about how to get people to come to your author reading, plus a real-life story of an author reading fail. By Jennifer Margulis, author/editor of seven books.
How my son nearly drowned, and what you need to know
My husband was excited about renting a house with a pool. I was terrified with fears of finding a child drowned. Even though we were spending the year with three small children in a country where it can get as hot as 130 degrees in the shade, I did not want to have a pool. Thirteen years before, when I…
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This Mom’s Littlest Grew Up, and She Had No Idea What to Do Next
I’ve always admired Meagan Francis. She’s a big ideas person, she makes things happen, and she has an incredible amount of energy. Nine years ago, when I was the creative nonfiction editor of Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined, we published a heartbreaking, beautiful story Meagan wrote about her mom, who passed away when Meagan’s son was only six…
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My 4-year-old Has a Broken Heart
“I don’t want to be human,” my 4-year-old says when I’m putting her to bed one night. We had just been reading a Tchoupi book. Tchoupi, the main character, is a little creature who makes a lot of mischief, getting into bike crashes, fighting with his dad. Tchoupi and his family are drawn as indistinguishable animals with black and white…
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Robert Coover Reading in Southern Oregon on April 21, 2014
Robert Coover will be reading in Southern Oregon. I’m looking forward to this event and delighted that it’s free and open to the public. I’m eager, too, to read this new novel written by Robert Coover, The Brunist Day of Wrath. According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica: Robert Coover, in full Robert Lowell Coover, (born February 4, 1932, Charles City, Iowa,…
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