Stepmothers are the silent voices in the mothering community. This month at Literary Mama, many of our departments feature pieces by and about stepmothers. Since representing stepmothers has always been part of our mission, why this special focus on them …

New writers and students often ask me “So, how do you get a book published?” Well, the answer is: part luck, part connections, part platform, and part good writing; but I don’t know in exactly what order.

Clarify. Unknot. Simplify. Pack away the holiday decorations. Organize the closets. Wear pink, red, orange, plaid and stripes. Wear your pants too short, too high, too low. Wear your nicest jewelry to the preschool breakfast. Wear your macaroni necklace to …

Three years ago, LiteraryMama.com hit the web for the first time. Our main mission: connecting mama readers with mama writers. As I look at the scrapbook that commemorates that birth, I see images of the real-time writing support group that …

My great-grandfather was a fireman. Not the kind who rescues people from burning buildings; rather, he worked for the railroad, shoveling coal into the firebox of a steam engine. A poorly educated man, he was lucky enough to have a …

When my son was two, he asked me whether Santa was real. He sat on our green couch with his legs straight in front of him, his orange and blue striped t-shirt stained with the grape popsicle he had been …