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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 […]

Well, the mother writer community has been busy in January. Between the book tours for the Literary Mama anthology and a series of Mother Talks, bookstores, coffee houses and, yes, even bars (or perhaps especially bars), have been filled with Literary Mamas. Seattle played host to 2 readings in January as well as a Mother […]

Thank you to Sandy at Imponderabilia of Actual Life for pointing me to this article by Mary Ann Roman which appeared in Parents Express magazine. In her article, There are No Mommy Wars, she challenges the notion that there is a Mommy War being waged Out There pitting stay-at-home moms against those working outside the […]

I had a chance to catch up with Literary Mama Senior Editor and Columnist Heidi Raykeil after her interview with Ann Curry on the Today Show. Heidi was interviewed about her first book Confessions of a Naughty Mommy: How I Found My Lost Libido and came across as calm, cool and collected. She revealed the […]

In my last post I wrote that I had received a copy of Darla Shine’s Happy Housewives book. Its arrival coincided with my discovery that Caitlin Flanagan also had penned a Housewife Chic book and the notion of a fashionable return to domesticity was making me feel rather cranky. Both Darla Shine and a Darla […]

Well, it’s been a banner week in my life. First, Darla Shine‘s Happy Housewives appeared on my doorstep. My favorite line so far is “Our mothers have no idea how they have burdened us with liberation and equality.” Liberation. Equality. Yep, that’s a real drag. Then, I learned here and here that Caitlin Flanagan’s new […]

Literary Mama Senior Editor Heidi Raykeil’s interview with Ann Curry on the Today show can be viewed here. After her interview aired, sales of Confession of a Naughty Mommy jumped, driving the book from #77,093 on the Amazon sales rank yesterday to #39 (and climbing) today. In other words, today Heidi’s book sold more copies […]

The Dallas Morning News ran a piece on December 18 about the economic cost of motherhood, based on a study by economist Amalia Miller. Miller discovered that a “year of delayed fertility leads to a 10% increase in career earnings, a 5% increase in career work experience, and a 3% increase in career average wage […]

Literary Mama’s own Heidi Raykeil will be appearing on NBC’s Today show tomorrow morning in the 9am time-slot to promote her new book, Confessions of a Naughty Mommy.

The Toronto Star ran an article today on “mommy blogs” and how mothers are connecting via the web. Author Andrea Gordon interviewed Literary Mama’s Andi Buchanan and me (among others) for the article and Literary Mama received a nice mention in the sidebar article. A major component of the article is about how blogging has […]

Bethany Hiitola is a blogging mom who is taking the self-publishing aspect of the blogosphere one step further. She had posted a draft of her novel, Postpartum Euphoria, online in the hopes of generating some buzz and to get some bites from agents or editors. Could this be the start of something new?