I’ve never been very good at keeping things simple. When I write, I have more ideas swirling around my head than kites at a traditional Japanese festival, and invariably they get tangled up.
Similarly, when I came up with the …
The writer laid bare
A Writer’s Guide to Surviving the Second Child
Dear Readers, I just want to let you know that I wrote this blog post, and intended to send it, before my second son was born. But the baby outsmarted me and turned out before that… Hence both the delay …
My essay which describes my conflicted feelings about motherhood and which initially appeared in the anthology Mothermorphosis (MUP 2015) was recently re-published in Debrief Daily. It’s available to read here: http://www.debriefdaily.com/relationships/being-a-mother/…
Debrief Daily website just published my new essay about my (odd…) relationship with my father. This is the first time I ever tackled this topic. http://www.debriefdaily.com/relationships/i-am-the-daughter-of-an-odd-man-hes-nothing-a-father-should-be/…
A Guest Post from Leah Kaminsky: How to Write a Novel in Ten Years
It took me ten years to write The Waiting Room, my debut novel. Well, actually, that’s pure fiction – I made the number up. It was really more like thirty years. Writing my novel felt at times akin to …
The Huffington Post now has Australian brunch too. They recently published my blog post that attempts to answer the question: Is non-monogamy our last sexual taboo? http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/lee-kofman/is-non-monogamy-the-last-sexual-taboo_b_8012856.html?utm_hp_ref=tw…