Andrea J. Buchanan

Tuesday, 3.21, 1 p.m. (EST) LM creative nonfiction editor Jennifer Margulis chats online at pregnancy.org about her new book Why Babies Do That. Thursday, 3.23, 7 p.m. LM managing editor Andi Buchanan will be speaking at a Mother Talk salon with Miriam Peskowitz, hosted by the publishers of Brain,Child magazine, in Charlottesville. (If you’re in […]

Thanks to Suburban Turmoil and Miss Cellania, who wrote great posts about their impressions of the book (Miss Cellania even provided photographic proof that she read it!). Suzanne at Mother in Chief writes today about her take on the Literary Mama anthology, and later on look for blog tour posts from Dawn and Megan. And […]

Thanks to Caroline, This Mom, Melanie Lynne Hauser, and Gayle Brandeis for blogging about the book this week! And Susan reflects more on her earlier post about the book, which brought up feelings for her around motherhood, creativity, and the need for solitude. There’s a great essay up at Literary Mama right now that touches […]

Welcome to week two of the Blog Book Tour for the Literary Mama anthology! Look for posts today from This Mom, Gayle Brandeis, Martha Brockenbrough, and Melanie Lynne Hauser. In the meantime, today I’m answering the first of my reader-submitted questions about Literary Mama and the LM anthology. These questions come from fellow Seal Press […]

The blog book tour for the Literary Mama anthology kicked off this week with seven bloggers writing about the book. I’d like to shine the spotlight on one of the bloggers, who has also been published on Literary Mama and has a piece in It’s a Boy: Susan Ito. Susan was at our January reading […]

Jennifer Margulis predicted we might have a big crowd, but I didn’t believe her. After all, how many of these bookstore things have I done where it turns out to be just me, standing next to a tower of destined-to-be-returned-to-the-warehouse books, and one old guy who thought he was sitting in the café? But she […]

In this week’s question, Dr. Sue addresses the dangers of writing what you know (again, it has to do with other people! Why do writers always seem to come up against this “other people” issue??). This is something I grapple with often, especially as someone who writes mostly nonfction. Personal essays about my life necessarily […]

To kick off the publication of my latest book It’s a Boy, I’m launching a web-based book tour: the Blog Book Tour. With 50 bloggers participating, it looks to be a new and enjoyable alternative to hanging out in bookstores in random cities hoping to entice people to let me sign their books. Which is […]

Martha is one of my favorite online writer friends. She is also a force to be reckoned with. Read her impassioned response to Maureen Dowd’s recent piece in the Times, In Defense of the Bake Sale. My favorite part is the whole damn thing, so I’ll restrain myself and just quote a few choice paragraphs: […]

A wonderful writer and online friend is making a guest appearance on MJ Rose’s blog every Friday starting today. Sue O’Doherty, PhD, is a psychologist specializing in issues affecting writers, and is no slouch herself. (And, in the interest of full disclosure, she has a lovely essay in It’s a Boy.) Today she tackles two […]

We have four new fiction pieces up: San Andreas by Ericak Lutz,The Hero of Queens Boulevard by Michelle Richmond, Embarrassment of Riches by Carol Cronin, and Day Care Lady by Deborah Bauer. And in slice-of-life nonfiction, we have new columns: Down Will Come Baby, Mother and Other, and our newest column by our newest columnist, […]