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Writer Mama by Christina Katz

Writer Mama

How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids

by Christina Katz

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  • Jan 2007, 296 pages
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A complete guide to developing a writing career geared specifically to stay-at-home mothers explains how to get started as a freelance writer, with practical advice on how to network, form a business, and craft fiction, nonfiction, and children's writing.

Kids change your life, but they don't necessarily have to end your career. Stay-at-home moms will love this handy guide to rearing a successful writing career while raising their children.

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"Christina Katz takes a stay-at-home-mom and turns her into a dragon-slayer with all the tools to make a writing career not just feasible, but downright practical. My copy of this book is wrought with notes, dog-eared pages, and highlighted resources, earning it a place on my reference shelf." —C. Hope Clark, author of The Shy Writer 

"Like taking a writing class at your neighborhood playground--Writer Mama is a must-have resource that speaks to the specific challenges of the writing parent with advice from those with one eye on the monkey bars and another on their manuscript." —Sharon Miller Cindrich, journalist, columnist, and author of E-Parenting: Keeping Up With Your Tech-Savvy Kids

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Christina Katz

Christina Katz is a freelance writer and mom based in Portland, Oregon. In September 2004, she was interviewed by Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America for her article "The Art of Making Time for Yourself." Sawyer hailed the article as one of the most popular articles on the Internet. As the editor/publisher of the 3-year-old subscriber-based Writers on the Rise e-newsletter, Christina is widely networked in the writer e-zine community, with editors of the largest subscriber-based e-zines.

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