Mother-child Writing Teams Celebrate a Special Bond
Collaborating on a creative project can be bonding experience-and when the collaborators are a mother and child, it's a way to celebrate and deepen the bond that already exists. Several mother-child writing duos have taken advantage of a new publishing paradigm, print-on-demand publishing, to write and publish a book together. With self-publishing services provided by AuthorHouse, Bloomington , Ind.-based publisher, the teams were able to write a book together and get it published quickly and easily.
A Child's Hero
After touring the birthplace of talking movies, 8-year-old Luke Colella asked to buy a book about Theodore W. Case, the famous inventor who put sound on film. He was told a biography was never written. Luke and his mother, Antonia Colella, decided to fill the gap and write the untold story of the "talkies". Their book Now We're Talking: The Story of Theodore W. Case and Sound-on Film was published last fall by AuthorHouse, the country's largest self-publishing company.
Now 10, Luke enjoys music, collecting baseball cards, sports, family, friends and school. His mother, Antonia (Toni) Colella, is a reading teacher with degrees from Rosary Hill College , George Washington University and Syracuse University . She has written articles on education for newspapers and professional journals, and in 1999 created the New York State Newbery Quiz Bowl. Mother and son enjoy life in Auburn , New York .
Mother and Daughter Plan a Wedding
W hen Sheila Kelly Kaplan started to plan her wedding in 2002, her mother Denise A. Kelly, was on hand to help with all the details. After a whirlwind of mishaps, laughter, conflict and tears, the two decided to record the whole experience in a book of their diaries. A Mother, A Daughter, A Wedding: Diaries of Bridal Chaos, Conflict and the Bond that Endures tells the moving and hilarious tale of the wedding and their loving relationship. Denise Kelly, mother, lives and writes in Central Pennsylvania , while daughter Sheila Kelly Kaplan, lives, works and writes in Manhattan , NY .
Sharing Widowhood
Sometime the experiences a mother and daughter share are the hardest kind, losing a husband and father. Mother-daughter duo Barbara Whitman Gaeta and Susan Whitman collaborated on a cathartic collection of vignettes, Wit and Wisdom for Widows: Beginning Anew , that both inspires and amuses. Uplifting and humorous, the book offers widows the tools that will empower them to create a new life. Mother and daughter live in Ione , Calif.
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About AuthorHouse
With over 20,000 books in print, AuthorHouse is the largest self-publishing house in the world, providing premier publishing and marketing services to authors. The company was founded in Bloomington , Indiana in 1997 to fulfill the dreams of authors who wanted to have their books published while retaining all rights and control of content. AuthorHouse provides high-touch customer service, an easy-to-use process and a broad range of services to help authors write, publish, distribute and promote their works. AuthorHouse titles are available for order at more that 25,000 retail stores worldwide, through major Internet booksellers and at the AuthorHouse online store, www.authorhouse.com.
