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This is my first Mother’s Day as a mom. I have a beautiful seven-month old daughter. I know it’s cliché, but having a child of my own has made me appreciate my mom so much more than I ever did before. I confess, I used to consider Mother’s Day and Father’s Day little more than Hallmark holidays. No more! I don’t think most moms want jewelry or flowers from their kids (husbands, we’re not talking to you!). Most moms want appreciation. Thank your mom for getting up with you every night, several times a night, soothing you, holding you, and rocking you back to sleep when she could hardly hold her own head up from exhaustion. Thank your mom for getting up with you at 6 a.m. to feed, change, and play with you—all with a smile—even though she was up with you at 12, 2, and 4. Thank your mom for changing your poopy diapers and your wet diapers. You cried, kicked, tried to roll off the changing table, and basically did everything to thwart her, but she used her considerable skills at least 10 t...

by Amanda Forester In honor of Mother’s Day tomorrow I wrote about all the amazing superpowers of mothers, and my mom in particular. So here it is, my “Ode to Motherhood”… which actually looks a lot like a top ten list. Honestly, the fine art of ode-writing has slipped considerably in the past few decades, but that’s another post. Allow me to present the Top Ten Things I Appreciate about Mothers! 10. Mothers have an uncanny sense of knowing where stuff is. Shoes, homework, toys – she’s got it all dialed in. I can even call my mom on the phone and ask her to find my car keys, and dang but she can usually guess where they are. How does she do that? 9. Mothers defend their offspring… even when they’ve messed up. Now don’t get me wrong, mothers are also usually the FIRST ones to tell you when you’ve done something stupid, but they’ll still try to protect you from the consequences. You’ve got to love that. 8. Mothers can remember EVERYTHING. Can’t recall that girl you were friends with in s...

I have one human child. Bill Cosby said, "Anyone who has an only child doesn't have kids." It's true. You don't have one daring the other to jump off the roof into the fluffy snow, (like my brother did to me. Yup, I jumped. Got the wind knocked out of me and my back hurt for a couple of days.) You don't have one telling the other that Vanilla not only smells delicious, but it taste yummy too and gets you to take a big gulp, (Yup my brother did that to me too. It burned all the way down...and back up again.) I don't know how my mother stood us. She must have had amazing patience, but I remember my brother and I testing that theory. A lot. They say, you only get what you can handle. As a single mom for several years, I wasn't able to handle much. Memories of those years make me wonder how I managed to raise such a well-adjusted kid. As a nurse, I sometimes worked double shifts to make ends meet. When I had a date, I had to hope my ex-husband didn't f...

posted by Loucinda McGary aka Aunty Cindy Since our theme this month is mothers and motherhood, I sat down to write this blog intending to post about some of the fictional mothers in my work. Then I realized, there aren't any! Well, hardly any... And very few of them are ever actually "on stage" during the course of the story. Here's what I mean: both my hero, Donovan, and heroine, Rylie in The Wild Sight are motherless. Donovan's mother disappeared when he was seven years old, and Rylie's mother died six months before the story takes place. No real mother figures there, and I won't even start on the "daddy" issues! In The T reasures of Venice , my hero, Keirnan also lost his mother as a child. He was eleven and his sister was sixteen, and she became his substitute mother figure. One of the reasons he is so desperate to save her. The heroine Samantha actually has a mother (At Last!) , but she's never seen "on stage." She's als...

Motherhood. What a topic. I am a mother, so I could wax poetic (but I don't write poetry, so why should I?) I could write about my mom, but then we'd get all teary-eyed and who wants that? I could write about my GRANDmom, but she's dealing with oncologists and that'd bring up MORE tears, so, again, why should I? I think I'll take the safe route and let the mothers in my book have her say. Everyone, I give you Kai, mother of Rod, Reel, Mariana, Angel and Pearl Tritone, followed by Ceto, the mother of all sea monsters. Hello everyone and thank you so much to Judi for having me here today. It's been a real adventure these last few months, what with Reel finding love with a Human, Rod taking over my husband's position, and Angel... ah, Angel. That woman does have a mind of her own. As those of you who are mothers can attest, raising kids isn't the easiest job in the world, but I like to think of it as the most rewarding. When your son can share his darkest f...

Hi Everyone—here’s another fellow Sourcebooks authors that has decided to stop by and visit our blog. This time it’s internationally bestselling author, Jill Mansell . Her 5th release in the US by Sourcebooks is Rumor Has It and is hitting stores this month. Hello, it’s lovely to be here at the Sourcebooks Romance Authors blog! I’m so happy to be published by such a great company in the US, and it’s hard to believe Rumour Has It is the fifth of my books to be coming out in under two years. Thanks so much to everyone for the warm welcome and all the fab comments so far! I’m often asked to describe a typical day in my life. It may be interesting in its own way – get up, get kids off to school, sit down and write as many words as possible while the world endeavors to create obstacles – but it’s not what you’d call glitzy. So today I’m going to write about one of my recent atypical days, because I think would-be writers might like to hear about the more glamorous side of being a publis...

You write a manuscript. You read over it a million times, polishing it with hope that someone in a position to publish it will see your genius and offer you a contract. You get editorial notes and read it at least once more to make the requested changes. Yep, you get it and think it’s good to go. You get copyedits and read through it one more time, looking for every crossed “t” and dotted “i”. (Don’t get me started on Scottish brogue and making sure you caught every bit of dialect. That’s a special kind of torture.) Then you get the final version to look over one last time before it goes to print. Then you wait, and wait, until the UPS man finally delivers your author copies to your door. I think this is the most painful wait – especially when you know your agent already has her copies and even some friends have received their pre-orders, but I digress. After you’ve terrified the UPS man with your ear shattering scream and he’s left the box on your doorstep to run back to the safety ...

“Are you awake, Mom? Mom, you awake? Mom, wakey wakey. Mom.” Yep, just a typical morning in the Wisdom household as my son does his wake up thing. Except when I open my eyes I see a little white furry face with black button eyes while a cold nose nudges my cheek. No, my son doesn’t need a shave. Barney’s a three-year-old white mini-Schnauzer whose idea of waking me up is sniffing my face and nuzzling me until I’m alert enough to climb out of my nice comfy bed and take him downstairs so he can go outside. And while he’s outside, I’m hearing “Awake here!” That means my other son, Syd, our twenty-eight-year-old Amazon Panama nape parrot, wants to be uncovered. If I could just teach one of them to fetch coffee, because I can’t get it until they have their ‘me’ time. Some people don’t believe in treating your critters like humans wearing fur, feathers, or even shells or scales. You’ll even hear the dreaded “but he’s a dog.” Yes, he is, but you’d be amazed how much those little guys understa...

This month's theme is about motherhood and new beginnings. But today also is May Day. :) In August, my new release is Seduced by the Wolf, where Leidolf Wildhaven has his heart set on a loner red wolf, and Cassie Roux has other notions in mind. It's spring and the time for wolf pups and the rebirth of the trees and flowers-- but as a wolf biologist, who had been raised by wolves after her family perishes, she is dedicated to the wolf's cause. And that means, she has no intention of mixing it up with an alpha male leader, who's looking for a mate. Leidolf believes the werewolf's cause is just as important, if not more so, and therein lies the difficulty. I was just watching a film about a man who's lost his wife of many years, and how desolate he becomes. Until he saves a wolf's puppies after the she-wolf is killed. The wife had been feeding the she-wolf before she died, and he had shown no interest in the wolf. It showed how even a guy can be a great mother...