Marjorie Osterhout

MotherTalk is looking for mama bloggers who would like to review books that appeal to women and mothers who love to read. They’re currently looking for people to review James Patterson’s latest YA novel, Maximum Ride 3, as well as Susan O’Doherty’s Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: A Woman’s Guide to Unblocking Creativity … with […]

Mama Specific Productions is seeking submissions of speculative fiction stories about the future of motherhood, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery and any sub-genres. The theme is motherhood in the future. Some things to prompt or give you ideas to start with: What do you imagine the function of motherhood to be? How do you think […]

Adams Media is seeking submissions for an upcoming Cup of Comfort anthology called “A Cup of Comfort for Divorced Women.” From their web site: Divorce in the twenty-first century should come with an instruction manual, a release valve, and a support system. This anthology will serve essentially those three purposes, in the form of comforting, […]

Literary Mama Co-founder Andi Buchanan has spent the last several months building a new venture called MotherTalk, which connects publishers with bloggers who are willing to review books that appeal to women and mothers who love to read. Past blog tours have included books like Writing Motherhood, The Other Mother, and The Kids Book Club […]

Would you give a newborn baby a sugar cookie? Even if you were desperate? Read about that first cookie in Caroline Grant’s essay on Hip Mama. Caroline edits Literary Reflections and writes the column Mama at the Movies.

Philly area moms won’t want to miss Literary Mama co-founder Andi Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz, both of MotherTalk Inc., in a conversation with Maribeth Fischer, author of the novel The Life You Longed For. “Mother Talk” is an old-fashioned literary salon with good food, good company, and good conversation. And you don’t have to read […]

Would you like to join our editorial staff? We’re looking for a very part-time Associate Editor — or two — in Columns, as well as a Copyeditor. The ideal AE has experience as a substantive or line editor, while the ideal CE is psychotic about detail and is comfortable writing (and testing) links in HTML. […]

Writer’s Digest wants to hear from you on the topic of “When Parenting and Writing Collide.” Write your best original, unpublished parenting-and-writing story in a 500-word essay and email it to publicity(at)fwpubs.com with “Writer Mama contest” in the subject line. Christina Katz, author of Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids […]

How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel, Edited by Sarah Franklin To be published by Seal Press, Spring 2008 From the submission guidelines: “How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel is a collection of humorous essays by women. Whether it’s being stuck on the tarmac for 15 hours with Dora the […]

If you’re in the Washington D.C. area, please join us for a champagne toast and reading to celebrate the launch of Not What I Expected: The Unpredictable Road from Womanhood to Motherhood. The anothology includes a story by LM Fiction Editor Suzanne Kamata, and a piece by Donna Vitucci that originally appeared in Literary Mama. […]

LM Columnist Rachel Sarah will be reading from her book Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World at two locations in Seattle: March 21, 2007, 7 p.m. University Bookstore 4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA March 22, 2007, 7 p.m. Third Place Books 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest […]