WOW blog tour stop No. 3

Today I'm back with Chynna Laird on her The Gift Blog 


http://www.the-gift-blog.com/


answering her long list of questions about my background, my writing life, how I cared for Paul and his bipolar disorder, and how we as a family survived his suicide. She got down to the real nitty-gritty. And you know me. I'm always ready to reply with the real hard facts. I'll do what it takes to get the word out to others with similar issues.


Chynna is a remarkable woman with a long list of accomplishments. Here's the list:


Chynna T. Laird
LILY WOLF WORDS
www.lilywolfwords.ca 
www.the-gift-blog.com
www.seethewhiteelephants.com
Author of award-winning book, "I'm Not Weird, I Have SPD"
Author of multi award-winning book, "Not Just Spirited: One Mom's Sensational Journey With Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)"
Author of "White Elephants" http://eaglewingspress.com/whele.html 
Author of 'Blackbird Flies" (Now available on all online eBookstores)
Author of 'The Gift' (coming soon!)
SPD Contributor with Our Journey Thru Autism
Contributing Writer for the SPD Foundation Blog
Contributing Writer for WOW-womeonwriting.com
Contributing Writer for Parenting Special Needs Magazine
Contributing Writer for Amaze Magazine

WOW blog stop No. 2

Today I'm at Beth Morrissey's writing resources website:

Writing Come Hell Or High Water

writing about how "It Takes a Village to Write a Book." Though writing is a lonely business, I sure had a lot of help putting my book together. 


Please take a look at:       http://bethiswriting.com/

My first WOW blog tour guest stop at White Elephants

White Elephants: A Blog About Bipolar and Mood Disorders, Mental Illness and Survival

founded by writer/author Chynna T. Laird, is my WOW Blog Tour host today. My blog piece discusses raising a child with bipolar -- and in my particular case how I cared for an adult-child with the disorder.

Please go to: 

http://www.seethewhiteelephants.com/2011/06/tell-someone-tuesday-guest-post-from.html#more 

to read more.

My WOW-Women on Writing blog tour launches today

The Muffin, the WOW blog, posted an interview with me today. 


Please click on the link and leave a comment, and you'll have a chance to receive a free copy of my memoir, Leaving the Hall Light On.


http://muffin.wow-womenonwriting.com/

My WOW-Women on Writing blog tour starts tomorrow

Here's my blog tour schedule. I hope you'll stop at all these interesting blog sites. And don't worry. I'll keep reminding you where I'll be throughout the month.

June 6

The Muffin

Tour Launch Interview

Host: WOW-Women on Writing

http://muffin.wow-womenonwriting.com/

June 7

White Elephants

http://seethewhiteelephants.com

Host: Chynna Laird

Guest post: My Experience Raising a Child with Bipolar

June 8

Writing Come Hell or High Water

http://www.bethiswriting.com

Host: Beth Morrissey

Guest Post: It Takes a Village to Write a Book

June 9

The Gift

http://www.the-gift-blog.com

Host: Chynna Laird

lilywolf@telus.net

Guest Interview and Book Review

June 10 

A Slice of Life

http://lindahoye.com

Host: Linda Hoye

Guest Post: And You Thought You Were Done: The Revision Process

June 13

Rage Against the Washing Machine

http://mommylebron.wordpress.com/

Host: Amanda Lebron

Guest Post: Does the Stigma of Mental Illness Still Exist

June 14

A.L.L. Between the Lines

http://allbtwnthelines.wordpress.com/

Host: Amanda Lebron

Book Review

June 15

Words from the Heart

http://contemplativeed.blogspot.com/

Host: Linda Neas

Guest Post; How to Survive the Death of a Child

June 20

Thoughts in Progress

www.masoncanyon.blogspot.com

Host: Mason Canyon

Guest Post: Not Another Casserole: Comforting a Grieving Parent

June 21

Mother Daughter Book Club

http://www.MotherDaughterBookClub.com

Host: Cindy Hudson

Guest Post: Does the Stigma of Mental Illness Still Exist

June 22

Women’s Memoirs

http://womensmemoirs.com/

Kendra Bonnett

Guest Post: My Experience Writing Leaving the Hall Light On.

June 23

Colloquium

www.jhsiess.com

Host: JH Siess (Janie)

Guest Post: Using Memoir Writing to Deal with Grief

June 27

Colloquium

www.jhsiess.com

Host: JH Seiss (Janie)

Book Review

June 28

The Cottage Bookshelf

http://thecottagebookshelf.blogspot.com/

Host: Kimberly Scott

Guest Post: The Support Services Available to Families Dealing with Mental Illness

June 29

National Association of Memoir Writers

http://www.namw.org/

Host: Staci Motherwell

Guest Post: The Journey from Aerospace Writer to Creative Writer

July 1

Women’s Memoirs

http://womensmemoirs.com/

Interview: My Experience with a Book Blog Tour and the Marketing and Selling of My Memoir

Many thanks to my WOW Blog Tour coordinator, Robyn Chausse, for arranging all these interesting and challenging tour stops.

I love my garden

Sun Tipped Leaves

An Isolation Poem

Every day I isolate myself in my office.

I sit there for hours

thinking,

looking out my window

at my cement pool and fountain.

And I write a little in between.

I like the isolated space to do my work

I like that my husband stays away

I like the solitude and quiet.

And I like that as the trees rustle outside,

their leaves tipped with sunlight,

I can’t hear their sway

I can’t hear their song. 

Small Stone Blogsplash – we need your help…

Kaspa and Fiona have taken over my blog for today, because they need our help. 

They are both on a mission to help the world connect with the world through writing. They are also getting married on Saturday the 18th of June.

For their fantasy wedding present, they are asking people across the world to write them a ‘small stone’ and post it on their blogs or on Facebook or Twitter.

A small stone is a short piece of observational writing – simply pay attention to something properly and then write it down. Find out more about small stones here.

If you’re willing to help, we’d love you to do things:

1) Re-post this blog on your own blog any time before June the 18th and give your readers a chance to hear about what we’re doing. You can simply copy and paste the text, or you can find the html here.

2) Write us a small stone on our wedding day whilst we’re saying our vows and eating cake, post it on your blog, and send it to us.

You can find out more about our project at our website, Wedding Small Stones, and you can also read our blog at A River of Stones.

We also have a July challenge coming soon, when we’ll be challenging you to notice one thing every day during July and write it down.

Thank you for listening, and we hope we’ll be returning from our honeymoon to an inbox crammed with small stones, including yours.

Kaspa & Fiona


Note from Madeline:
To refresh your memory, I took on the NaSmaStoMo small stone a day challenge last January. I'm definitely going to write a wedding small stone on June 18. Please join me.