Working with Judy M. Miller is such a pleasure. Judy knows her stuff when it comes to parenting adopted children, parenting children with special needs, and just regular ol’ parenting. She has definitely taught me a lot about parenting over the years.
If I were a parent of adopted or special needs child, I would hustle on over to Judy M. Miller’s site and partake of all of her writings and resources. Please help me welcome, Judy!
About Judy M. Miller
Judy M. Miller is an adoptive parent and adoption advocate living in the Midwest with her husband and four children. She coordinates and teaches parent preparation education to those who are in the adoption process. Topics she covers include parenting and adoption, adopted children, preparation and adjustment, and transracial parenting, as well as Parenting Your Adopted Child: Tweens, Teens & Beyond.
Judy is a Certified Gottman Educator and a Parenting Counts Educator. She is a support specialist, assisting parents and their children with information and techniques to equip and empower them during challenging times.
Judy is the Adoption Pro for Parenting Squad’s ProSquad. Her essays and articles appear in adoption and parenting magazines and her stories are featured in A Cup of Comfort for Adoptive Families (Adams Media), Pieces of Me: Who Do I Want to Be? (EMK Press), Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom (Chicken Soup for the Soul), Sensational Journeys (Future Horizons), and Women Writing on Family (The Key Publishing House Inc., January 2012).
Judy finds abundant inspiration in her daily life and experiences. In her spare hours, between ferrying her kiddos to school and extra-curricular activities, she focuses on propelling her writing and platform forward. Discover more about Judy’s work and passion, and follow her on Twitter.
About What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween
What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween helps parents assist their children in understanding, examining and resolving adoption-related issues as they happen, and to empower their children to feel self-confident.
Perhaps you’re not parenting a tweenie yet, but you’re considering what it might be like to parent your child as he or she moves closer to and through adolescence. What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween is a terrific tool and resource—providing examples that will resonate with you and from which you can draw ideas to support and parent your child as this stage nears.
Whether you are now in the “trenches” of parenting a tween who has been adopted, on the cusp of doing so, or will be down the road, What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween will be of great benefit to you.
The Very Short Interview
When did you know for sure that you were a writer and that writing would be a major energy focus in your life?
I knew I was a writer as soon as my first article, “The Dragons Rest,” written in Writing & Publishing the Short Stuff, was published in May of 2008. I was empowered by the fact that people wanted to read what I felt compelled to share through writing, and pay me for it. I knew writing would be a major energy focus for me when I realized that it opened me up in a way nothing else had. I loved the focus and clarity I discovered through writing, as well as the ability to express my voice and connect with people.
Who has always been behind your writing career and who helped pull you up the ladder of success?
My husband suggested that I take up writing, and has been my unwavering supporter and sometimes critic and editor. My four wonderful kiddos are my cheerleaders. Christina and the many wonderful writing colleagues I’ve come to know in the past four years have provided me with insight, wisdom, ideas, and immense support. My writing has become just one leg of my evolving platform that now encompasses teaching, speaking and facilitating workshops in my niche—parenting and adoption.
What is the most frequent comment you hear about your book (or books) from readers? Tell us a little story about the response to your work.
The most frequent comment I hear is that hear that I understand my topic well. I’m told my e-guide, What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween, is clear, concise, helpful, and that I communicate with compassion and empathy. “Every parent, and anyone working in the adoption arena, should have a copy. This is great!”
Extra Bonus!
Judy will also give away a copy each of two anthologies her work has appeared in recently. The first is Women Writing on Family, Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing. The second is The Woman I’ve Become edited by Pat LaPointe.
And Now, Your Turn
Now it’s your turn. You remember how this works right?
I ask you a question. You answer in the comments for your chance to win a book each day.
Please just respond once, even if you make a typo. 
Answer in the comments in 50-200 words (no less and no more to qualify to win one of today’s books). Please read the complete rules at least once!
Thanks for participating in the Writer Mama Every-Day-In-May Book Giveaway! I hope to see you here every day this month. Bring your friends!
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