Thank goodness that the Universe in its synchronicity and infinite wisdom sent this message to me via my inbox from the novelist (and mother) Sarah Jio, guest blogging on Writer Unboxed.
Sarah writes, "Yes, it is possible to write a novel with small children hanging on you...Let me paint a picture for you: 4 year old nagging for a snack at my right, a 2 year old drooling on my contract for my next novel at my left (oops—hope my agent didn’t notice the smeared type on page 4!), and a newborn on the brink of a meltdown in the bouncer seat at the base of my desk. That’s the general state of the union in my home, and I learned early on as a mom that if I couldn’t embrace the chaos and just write, I’d never get a book published."
Well, I haven't found that balance yet as you can tell from the frequency of my recent blog posts. And yet I HAVE found time for yet another collaboration with my husband Nathan. I started playing around with creating photo books last year and made one on Shutterfly for Nathan as a Christmas gift--his photos, my words. I enjoyed creating so much that I wanted to make some more and so...wah lah!...a photo ebook Images of Oahu: Honolulu, Waikiki Beach, and the North Shore which you can download from our spanking-new website PhotojourneyBooks.com.
The website is a work-in-progress, as is my new life as a writer and mother of not one but TWO girls. Yikes. Wish me luck.
