BlogHer 15, Blog to Book: Sample book proposal from panelist Louise Sloan
This is a PDF of my May 2006 proposal for Knock Yourself Up. It got bids from multiple publishers and has been used to teach nonfiction book proposal writing. Hope you find it useful! Click here:...
View ArticleKourtney Kardashian’s New Reality: Single Mom
Keeping up with Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick has never been easy. Their toxic, rocky relationship has played out – or staged out – for years on the E! reality show Keeping Up With the...
View ArticleNo Child Support, No Driver’s License: Fair or F’ed Up?
Here in the Garden State, New Jersey, where I live with my son – and have an open and active child-support case with his absent father who lives in Indiana — a class action lawsuit seeks to end the...
View ArticleMy Ex Won’t Let Me See or Even TALK to My Kid!
ASK LINDA, PSYCHOTHERAPIST & CHOICE MOM: My ex-partner and I share joint custody of our 12-year-old son, but now she’s stopping me from having any contact with him. Every time we agree on a visit,...
View ArticleAre you on the parenting rollercoaster?
I am sure most parents will understand what I mean when I say that I have found that once a day my kids do something that makes me happy, and once a day they do something that makes me angry. And once...
View ArticlePassing for Female: Caitlyn Jenner, Serena Williams & Me
How do you do “being a woman”? In a fabulous follow-up to their epic “Bic for Her” pen-marketing fail, Bic took at shot at it this week for South Africa’s National Women’s Day: “Look like a girl. Act...
View ArticleQuit Saying “I’m Sorry For Your Loss”
I hate hearing the phrase “I’m sorry for your loss.” It annoys the living [insert obscenity of choice] out of me. Why? I’m totally sick of hearing it For starters, I have heard some variation of the...
View ArticleWhy I Really, Really Need My Non-Mom Friends
When my son started kindergarten this year, I set a goal to make more mom friends. Since he’ll be at his school for six years, I want to really grow with him and put down some roots in the school...
View ArticleYeah, I’m a Single Dad. No, I Don’t Want You to Set Me Up.
“Hey, are you dating anyone right now?” I was at my four-year-old daughter’s baseball game watching my daughter play with another little girl. The other parents and I spend three to five evenings a...
View ArticleI’m a Single Dad and My Daughter’s About to Get Her Period. Help!
ASK LINDA, PSYCHOTHERAPIST & CHOICE MOM: My daughter is 10 years old and many of her friends are getting their periods. I’m terrified of speaking with her about it. I have no idea what to say. No...
View ArticleI’m a happy single dad. Why bother getting married again?
I often am asked whether or not I would consider getting married again. For a long time, my response was something like, “I’d love to. But to be honest, I think I’m going to do a George Clooney it...
View ArticleWhy Decent People Elected Trump
“It’s about basic human decency,” Michelle Obama said in a passionate speech in New Hampshire a couple of weeks ago, regarding the imperative not to elect a confessed and unrepentant sexual predator to...
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