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Our intrepid columnist Rachel Sarah reports from the front lines of the book biz: Single Mom Seeking Live on Channel 4 Bay Area News! KRON TV host says: “Probably the hottest single mom dating book out there.” Henry Tenenbaum was a sweetheart. I thought that were off air when the anchor Ysabel Duron asked me […]

Ok folks, my iBook gave up the ghost just before the holidays and despite expert assistance, I can’t move my mail over to my shiny new MacBook. This means that submissions I’ve received for Op Ed (including accepted pieces) are (in the immortal words of the Violent Femmes) gone, daddy, gone. If you’ve submitted an […]

Never let it be said that you have nothing to read… at least not if you stick with us! This month, Andi Buchanan, Literary Mama’s founding Managing Editor, was mentioned in the New York Times article Chick Lit, The Sequel: Yummy Mummy. And, keeping it all in the family, Andi also has a piece in […]

Our intrepid columnist Jennifer Margulis not only sends us fascinating (and worrisome) missives from Africa, but continues to rock on as an international freelance writer. Her article in Oregon’s Ashland Daily Tidings on nursing past her son past the age of three has gotten responses around the U.S. and abroad: from Alaska, to Texas, to […]

There are few people for whom writing, singing, or drinking to “Peace on Earth” during the holiday season will mean very much. But after nearly four years in a sticky war, it should. So here’s a suggestion: spend one hour thinking about War and Peace (not the book). Think about being American. Think about moms […]

Elle Magazine online features a review of Literary Mama columnist Jessica Berger Gross’s new book About What Was Lost: twenty writers on miscarriage, healing, and hope, which hits the stores this December just in time for the holidays. Congratulations, Jessica!

Rachel Kramer Bussel, self-described “Writer, Editor, Sex Columnist, Reading Series Host, Cupcake Lover, Comedy Fan, Smutmonger, Total Dork,” recently interviewed LM’s own columnist Rachel Sarah about her book Single Mom Seeking. Read the interview!

Starting January 7, 2007 Anyone who has had a child knows that parenting is one of life’s most exhilarating, awesome, maddening, humbling, crazymaking, joyful and wrenching experiences–which is what also makes it excellent inspiration for writing. This past decade has shown an explosion in “Parent-Lit,” or the literature of parenthood, in all forms: creative nonfiction, […]

Last weekend I attended the 2006 Nieman Narrative Conference. There were a lot of great workshops by a lot of thrilling presenters but one of the most inspiring was given by Connie Schultz. Ms. Schultz is a mom, a wife (to newly elected senator Sherrod Brown) and a Pulitzer-prize winning writer. Her op-eds appear in […]

Single Mom Seeking debuts on the 11 o’clock news! Last night (11.21.06), the charming CBS 5 News reporter Joe Vasquez tracked Literary Mama columnist Rachel Sarah and her single mom friends down during their weekly “Girls’ Night.” A new study was just released – about the new surge of unmarried moms – and he wanted […]

We’re doing a special issue focusing on STEPPARENTING, and we need your help and your writing! Here at Literary Mama, we’ve always welcomed — encouraged — made it our mission — to feature the many voices and faces of motherhood. That includes stepmothers, of course. As a stepmother, and as the author of a bestselling […]