Writer Mama Riffs on Raising A Writing Career Alongside Your Kids

Dear Mamas,

I love it when I see that mamas around the Net are reviewing, plugging and otherwise praising Writer Mama. Seriously, nothing warms the cockles of my heart more. When you have devoted over a year of seriously hard work to a project, you really, really want to move readers. So thank you, everyone!

I have a concern, however,  and it has to do with appropriate copyright. Please, don’t forget to give appropriate credit where it is due, which means:

If you pull a selection of words from Writer Mama you need to cite it with the full title, full name of the author (that’s me), publisher name, and publication date.

For my book, a full citation looks like this:

Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids, Christina Katz (Writers Digest Books 2007)

Or you can write it more conversationally like this:

Writer’s Digest Books published, Writer Mama by Christina Katz… (you don’t have to give the date unless it’s a formal citing).

Simply linking back to this blog by way of citation isn’t the same. After all, this blog didn’t write Writer Mama.

And even though my online identity is “Writer Mama” or “the Writer Mama,” or “writer mama” or whatever, keep in mind that I wrote the book with a ton of assistance.

When you give a full credit using all the formal names, we all get the acknowlegement we deserve.

Thanks so much for listening. I truly appreciate all of your support.