Monthly Archives: May 2013

Publishing or Self-Publishing for Kids

This rambling post isn’t about what you think. My kids and I have a ritual of me reading while they eat breakfast. It started because my son had read Castle in the Attic for school in third grade and wanted to share with his little sister, so, with his own money and without telling me, […]

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Happy Birthday to Me.

My birthday is on Sunday. As usual, nearly everyone I know and love is out of town for Memorial Day Weekend. So – I decided to throw myself a Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon party. Coincidentally, my friend and fellow Columbia MFA classmate, Sonoko Kawahara (a mom-director, which is as hard as being a mom-writer), […]

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Ghost writing, blogging, and writing a novel in a year

As writers who have to support little hungry mouths, we are (well, like everyone else) always searching for a way to make money. So what about ghost-writing? Articles like this one from the BBC, make it sound so easy – write two or three books a year, put your kids through private schools. Live in a […]

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A Night of Literary Wonders and Works With Pen Parentis

Andaz Wall Street hosted Pen Parentis Literary Salon – a reading and panel discussion with successful authors, on May 14. This event’s authors included Joanna Herson, Helen Phillips, Anne Korkeakivi and Jennifer Cody-Epsteinon. The four are well established in their fields and have won various awards for their respective works. The Pen Parentis Andaz Salon gathered award-winning […]

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