Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing
Subtitle: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing
Publisher: The Key Publishing House, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto, Canada
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781926780139
Description: The anthology’s fifty-five chapters were arranged under: Part I Personal and Legal Issues about Family Topics; Part II Finding Time to Write with Career and Family; Part III Making the Most of Your Family Experience; Part IV Writing Exercises and Strategies; Part V Exploring Family in a Variety of Genres; Part VI Finding Your Writing Style; Part VII Publishing, Marketing & Promotion; and Part VIII Building Your Confidence.
Table of contents: title: Dedication; title: Foreword by Supriya Bhatnagar; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Part I		Personal and Legal Issues about Family Topics; title: Family Secrets: How to Reveal What Matters Without Getting Sued, or Shunned; title: Martha Engber; title: For Better. For Worse. For Publication?; title: Lisa Romeo; title: Interview With Meredith Hall; title: Lisa Romeo; title: Keeping Your Distance: Avoiding Sentimentality in Family-Centered Writing; title: Jenn Brisendine; title: Killing the Phantom; title: Corbin Lewars; title: The Parent Trap: Five Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Essays about Family; title: Anne Witkavitch; title: Rattling Family Skeletons; title: Arlene L. Mandell; title: Writing About Religion Requires Pseudonyms; title: Rosemary Moeller; title: Part II	Finding Time to Write With Career and Family; title: Balancing Act: How to Devote Time to Your Craft Without Neglecting Your Kids or Your Day Job; title: Kezia Willingham; title: It’s Not a Hobby: Writing and the Value of Non-paid Work; title: Kate Hopper; title: Laundry, Life, and Writing: Making the Most of Short Sessions and Stolen Moments; title: Lela Davidson; title: Mother Professor: Going Back for the PhD; title: Geri Lipschultz; title: Penciling It In; title: Cassie Premo Steele; title: Today’s Freelancing Momma: A Look Into the Dual Career of Writing and Motherhood; title: Daphne Butas; title: Part III	Making the Most of Your Family Experience; title: Making Up Grandma: How to Blend History and Imagination Into Powerful Family Narratives; title: Lela Davidson; title: Teaching Writers to See Family; title: Diane LeBlanc; title: Telling Our Truth: Writing the Legacy of the Dead; title: Carol Hawkins; title: To Everything There Is a Season: Or What to Expect When You're a Writer Expecting a Baby; title: Geri Lipschultz; title: Using Family in Writing for “Chicken Soup for the Soul”; title: Diana M. Amadeo; title: Using Writing as a Means of Surviving and Transgressing Family Violence and Trauma; title: Anna Saini; title: Writing About Family and Illness; title: Aubrey Hirsch; title: Part IV	Writing Exercises & Strategies; title: Create the Mother Lode: Journal About Yourself, Your Family and Memories; title: Sheila Bender; title: Don’t Forget the Story: Implementing Fiction Techniques in Creative Non-fiction; title: Jenn Brisendine; title: Family in Nonfiction: Making the Familiar Strange; title: Yelizaveta P. Renfro; title: How to Write a Childhood Memoir; title: Catherine Gildiner; title: Mothers and Daughters: Telling Shared Stories; title: Diane LeBlanc; title: Now and Then: Using the Retrospective Narrator in Memoir; title: Christin Geall; title: Teaching the Personal Essay; title: Anne Valente; title: Using Your Dreams to Enrich Your Writing; title: Ingeborg Gubler Casey; title: Part V	Exploring Family in a Variety of Genres; title: Are Blogs for Real Writers? Write on Family Online, and Virtually Boost Your Career; title: Jen Lee; title: The Blogging Recipe: Instructions and Ingredients for Writing on Family Online; title: Jen Lee; title: Creating the Fictional Family: No Character Is an Island; title: Yelizaveta P. Renfro; title: From Memoir to Fiction; title: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa; title: Poetry Makes An Honest Woman of You; title: Rosemary Moeller; title: Writing Poems About Grandparents; title: Karen Coody Cooper; title: Part VI	Finding Your Writing Style; title: Becoming a Parenting Advocate for Moms through Writing; title: Judy M. Miller; title: Critique Groups for Women with Families; title: Colleen Kappeler; title: Editing an Anthology; title: Amber E. Kinser; title: The Ideal Reader as Family; title: Anne Valente; title: Lists, E-mail, and Facebook: Crafting Fiction and Nonfiction from Everyday Writing; title: Yelizaveta P. Renfro; title: The Roles of Women in Narrative; title: Mary Rice; title: Part VII	Publishing, Marketing & Promotion; title: Cybermoms: Opportunities for Women Writers on the Web; title: Anne Witavitch; title: From Pitch to Publication: Learning How to Work With an Editor; title: Caroline M. Grant; title: Identifying Potential Markets for Family Writings; title: Rebecca Tolley-Stokes; title: The Importance of Face Time: Making the Most of Writing Conferences; title: Kate Hopper; title: Locating Markets for Writing about Family; title: Colleen Kappeler; title: Self Publishing a Book; title: Gayle Zinda; title: Self-Publishing from Manuscript to Finished Book: Eight Steps in Eight Months; title: Anne Ipsen; title: What to Do When the Byline Buzz Wears Off; title: Madeleine Kuderick; title: A Writer’s Thoughts on Book Marketing; title: Ann McCauley; title: Part VIII 	Building Your Confidence; title: Finding My Voice; title: Ingeborg Gubler Casey; title: On Believing What You Have to Say Is Worth Writing; title: Sheila Bender; title: Preparing Yourself as a Writer: How to Risk Baring Your Soul While Writing Your Truth; title: Kezia Willingham; title: Professional Nurturer: How to Write About Family (and Still Be Seen as Professional); title: Lee Skallerup Bessette; title: Unlocking the Ties That Bind: Releasing the Writer Within; title: Laila S. Dahan; title: About the Contributors; title: Index