Our September 11th #platformchat celebrates mom writers to coincide with my 30-day Writer Mama Back-to-School Giveaway.
On Friday, September 11th our
#platformchat guests will be Literary Mama editor-in-chief, Caroline Grant & mom author and mother-daughter book club consultant, Cindy Hudson.
Time is: 11:00 - noon PT (noon - 1:00 MT, 1:00 - 2:00 CT, & 2:00 - 3:00 ET).
Topic: "The Juggle" -- How Mom Writers Balance Parenthood & Writing/Book Promotion
If you missed our recent chats, you are welcome to peruse recent transcripts:
August 7th #platformchat
July 24th #platformchat
July 14th #platformchat
June 26th #platformchat
Anyone
with a Twitter account can participate. I recommend using Tweetchat.com
and plugging in our hashtag, #platformchat, to follow and participate
in the chat. Once you have a Twitter account, you can use your Twitter
ID and password to get a Tweetchat account very quickly.
I hope you will bring your questions on this topic and join the discussion!
Please note: #platformchat is (pretty much) on an every-other-week rhythm now. Stay tuned to this blog for updates. Thanks!
Here's a little more about our guests:
Caroline Grant (@CarolineGrant) is the editor-in-chief of Literary Mama, where she also writes the column "Mama at the Movies." She is co-editor, with Elrena Evans, of the anthology Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press, 2008). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught classes on film, women's studies, American literature, and writing; she has also taught at Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute. Her essays have been published in a variety of anthologies and journals. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons, a life she writes about on her blog, food for thought.
Cindy Hudson (@momdtrbookclub) is a mother-daughter book club consultant, journalist, writer, and editor. She is the author of Book By Book, The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs. She has more than twenty years experience as a marketing and public relations professional, and has founded two mother-daughter book clubs of her own. Visit her online at http://www.motherdaughterbookclub.com and http://www.motherdaughterbookclub.wordpress.com.
#platformchat moderators are:
Christina Katz is the author of Get Known Before the Book Deal, Use Your Personal Strengths to Build an Author Platform and Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids
(both for Writer’s Digest Books). A platform development coach and
consultant, she teaches writing career development, hosts the Northwest Author Series, and is the publisher of several e-zines including Writers on the Rise. Christina blogs at The Writer Mama Riffs and Get Known Before the Book Deal,
and speaks at MFA programs, literary events, and conferences around the
country. Follow Christina on Twitter at @thewritermama.
Meryl K. Evans is the author of Brilliant Outlook Pocketbook, co-author of Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites and contributor to many others. The long-time blogger and gamer
has written and edited for a bunch of places online and off. A native
Texan, she lives a heartbeat north of Dallas in Plano, Texas with her
husband and three kiddos. Though born in silence, she tries to show that deaf people are just like everyone else. Follow Meryl on Twitter at @merylkevans.
Comments