Author Archives: Betsy Amster
Behind the scenes at Kim Boyce’s new Bakeshop
Serious Eats takes you on a tour of Kim’s beautiful new digs in Portland — check out the slideshow here.
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Eileen Kennedy-Moore on pornography for tweens, at a mall near you
Eileen Kennedy-Moore, author (with Mark Lowenthal) of SMART PARENTING FOR SMART KIDS, has a fantastic parenting blog at psychologytoday.com. Her most recent post–on how Abercrombie and Fitch markets to tweens–has had thousands of hits. Read it here–it’s astonishing.
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One of the best book trailers. EVER.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CD4n5HO5Sw[/youtube] Blogger and comedian Anna Lefler does great work. Here’s her brilliant and hilarious book trailer for THE CHICKTIONARY: From A-Line to Z-Snap, the Words Every Woman Should Know. Trust me–the look on her face in the first scene is priceless. THE CHICKTIONARY is available now, from Adams Media.
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Wendy Mogel can change the way you think about your teenager
Simon & Schuster has posted a lovely video of Wendy Mogel guaranteed to persuade you that raising a teen can be “invigorating, enlightening, and entertaining”–click here to see it. (It just might bring tears to your eyes.) For much more inspiration and support, read THE BLESSING OF A B MINUS, just out in paperback.
More coverage of FOLLOWING EZRA in The Atlantic online and Lisa Belkin’s NYT parenting blog
Click here for a wonderful Q&A with author Tom Fields-Meyer about what it was like for him to write about his son, Ezra. Lisa Belkin also wrote about the book in a Motherlode blog entry called “Parenting Reading for Back to School,” where she describes it (rightly!) as “wonderful.”
The WSJ excerpts Tom Fields-Meyer’s memoir FOLLOWING EZRA
Read the Wall Street Journal excerpt here. When Tom’s son Ezra was diagnosed with autism before he turned three, a counselor suggested that he and his wife grieve for “the child Ezra didn’t turn out to be.” But Tom had, as he writes, no instinct to mourn. Instead, the counselor’s remark helped him bring out […]
Praise for Marisel Vera’s IF I BRING YOU ROSES
We’ve gotten such lovely quotes for Marisel Vera’s debut novel, IF I BRING YOU ROSES: “A richly told tale of obsessive love…deeply sensual and mysterious.” —Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban “A deeply felt and satisfying tale that brings attention to the courage required to sustain hope, love, and passion as a stranger in […]
Marisel Vera’s IF I BRING YOU ROSES is out now from Grand Central
The author had the brilliant idea to recruit her daughter, actress Alyssa Vera Ramos, and Alyssa’s friend Alex Tey, artistic director of 13 o’clock Theatre in Rio Grande, Texas, to read a chapter from the book. It will bring tears to your eyes. View it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLS2J9czTaU. This also happens to be Marisel’s first book […]
Praise for Tom Fields-Meyer’s FOLLOWING EZRA
Tom has gotten a striking amount of pre-pub praise for his memoir, FOLLOWING EZRA: What One Father Learned About Gumby, Otters, Autism and Love from His Extraordinary Son (coming from NAL in September): “Following Ezra is a revelation. I could not put it down. Life rarely goes according to plan, and too often we try […]
About.com names FOLLOWING EZRA Favorite Special Needs Memoir of 2012