I first met Cindy in early 2006 when she took my class Writing & Publishing Nonfiction Articles (a class I no longer offer). Five years later, she has been repeatedly published, built up a blog and a following, wrote a book proposal, and landed an agent and a book deal. Today Cindy is an author and an internationally known family literacy advocate, who has recently added a series of Book Club Guides to her growing repertoire of helpful resources. Please help me welcome Cindy!
Cindy Hudson is the author of Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs (Seal Press, October 2009). She is the founder of two long-running mother-daughter book clubs, and she lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two daughters. Visit her online at www.MotherDaughterBookClub.com.
Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs has all the advice moms need to start reading groups with their daughters and keep them thriving as the girls grow. Each chapter includes practical ideas from the author, other book-club moms, parenting experts, librarians, and other writers. Book recommendations, recipes and other resources are also included.
Author Q&A:
1. How has writing (either just the act of writing or writing this book or both) impacted your self-confidence?
While writing this book I realized just how much I knew about book clubs and how my experience really could help others. That confidence carried through into my other writing as well. Now I am more likely to see what I have to offer as valuable to the right audience, I just have to do my work to find the right audience for it.
2. What are three words that describe your creative book-writing process?
Energizing
Exhausting
Fun
3. What good has your book created in the world?
More mother-daughter book clubs! Any time moms and daughters are reading together, they are also usually talking about what they read and may discuss things that would otherwise be difficult to bring up on their own. These reading groups create a community of friends who get to know one another better through the years.
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Thanks for participating, Cindy!
Cindy writes nonfiction. She started writing for publication with regional reporting for The Oregonian.
Have you ever written for a local, regional, or state-wide newspaper? If so, what did you like or not like about the experience? If not, would you like to try it? Answer in the comments in 50-200 words (no less and no more to qualify to win today’s book).
(Cindy is allowed to answer too, but not until tomorrow because she can’t win her own book.)
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