Parent Hacks

Introducing Book Love

in: Writing & Social Media

You know how, when you’re thinking about buying a new car, you suddenly notice that exact car all over town? It’s sort of like that for me right now with books. Now that I’m writing another book, I find myself tuned in to other authors. I automatically perk up when I meet someone with a book project underway. Book-writing is such a thrill. Turning years’ […]

Social Me-dia: Going From Brand to Person Online

in: Writing & Social Media

I’ve been tweeting as @parenthacks for almost seven years. Over the weekend, I changed my Twitter handle to @ashadornfest. The change makes sense; it reflects how I prefer to use Twitter — as a place for conversation more than publication or promotion. Given that there will be a book titled Parent Hacks on the shelves soon enough, tweeting as @ashadornfest […]

Subscriber alert: New feed address

in: Writing & Social Media

If you read Parent Hacks using a feed reader, please update the feed address to: http://parenthacks.com/feed Exception: If you use Feedly (my personal choice), you don’t have to do a thing. The fine folks there are taking care of things behind the scenes. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, RSS feeds are a simple […]

Balancing output and input

in: Writing & Social Media

Hello, friends! I hope your holiday preparations are going well. I've been on a surprise writing hiatus. "Surprise" because I didn't plan for it, even though it has been just what I needed. Hanukkah has begun. Not long ago, I turned in the first draft for the Parent Hacks book. It felt so good to […]

Book update: First draft almost done

in: Writing & Social Media

So much goodness swirled around this week, but I've barely looked up or shared any of it. I'm heads down finishing the manuscript for the Parent Hacks book, which is consuming most of my conscious thought at the moment. This is only the book's beginning; my first attempt to transform what we've been doing here […]

The prologue to the introduction to the next chapter

in: Etc., Writing & Social Media

I spent last week writing a post about what's next for Parent Hacks. The post is crap. Seriously, it sucks. Be glad I didn't publish it. I then went offline for three days to chaperone my daughter's camp field trip in the Oregon desert. It was an amazing experience: high desert ecology, 5th grade social […]