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