News

  • Writing Motherhood will be featured as the cover story in the fall 2007 issue of Mom Writer's Literary Magazine available in print and online.
  • Lisa Garrigues was selected for the 2007 "Women of Inspiration" Award, co-sponsored by the National Association of Women Business Owners and Fairleigh Dickinson University. She was honored at Fairleigh Dickinson University on May 10.
  • Writing Motherhood is one of six titles reviewed in the 2007 Mother's Day roundup of BookPage.com, a monthly book review distributed to bookstores and libraries nationwide.
  • Writing Motherhood is among the selected titles featured in the May 2007 issue of the Writer's Digest Book Club Bulletin.

Writers Digest Book Club

"Lisa Garrigues' advice is encouraging and nurturing for women everywhere."
New and Notable Book, Summer 2007

BookPage

"While [Lisa Garrigues] encourages women to mine material from their early years as mothers...her focus is on giving women the sustained belief in themselves they will need 'to write at every stage of parenting.'"
Linda Stankard, Mother's Day Roundup, May 2007
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Orlando Sentinel

"I was intrigued by a book that arrived recently at Parent Place, called Writing Motherhood by Lisa Garrigues. The book's goal is to get moms to start writing - an exercise that will not only make them better writers, but by extension better moms."
Mary Ann Horne, Mommy Chronicles, April 23, 2007
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The Bergen Record

"Hidden away in a little white church on a hill in Upper Saddle River, 13 women write so intently that all you can hear is the scratching of their pens. All met in a writing class at the YWCA of Bergen County in Ridgewood. While their teacher, Lisa Garrigues, was finishing a new book on her methods called Writing Motherhood, they decided to keep meeting to practice that very craft."
Leslie Brody, Living, May 13, 2007

Brooklyn Eagle

Many mothers wish they could just stop the clock for a few minutes each day to take stock. Lisa Garrigues' new book Writing Motherhood (Scribner) can help moms organize their thoughts and capture them within a special notebook, and all in just 15 minutes a day.
Mary Frost, Learning Curves, May 4, 2007
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The Ridgewood News

"At a recent book signing, [Lisa Garrigues'] students all donned orange, the color of her book cover. Her students have become so passionate about their teacher and the course [Writing Motherhood] that when class breaks for summer, several of the writing moms meet on their own, at a coffee shop, the library or a community center, and read aloud their mother pages. That kind of camaraderie is something Lisa encourages at the onset of each class and throughout her book."
Lucy Probert, People and Places, May 11, 2007