Op Eds & Essays
Pamela Jane is an author of over thirty children’s books, and an essayist whose work has appeared in The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, The NY Daily News, Writer's Digest, The Independent, and The Writer. Pamela has also published humor in The Daily Drunk, Erma Bombeck, Brevity, The Satirist, and others.
Photo: The author in 1975 by Jun Kobashigawa
Giving Up Is Not An Option
When I was trying to break into publishing children’s books, a well-known agent wrote me a letter. “Your stories all have cracks in the middle. The beginnings don’t go with the endings.” This pronouncement sounded fatal. My stories had a genetic flaw – a death sentence for my future as a writer.
Maybe Neighbourliness Isn’t So Old-Fashioned After All
Sometimes I feel nostalgic for a vanished past I’ve only read about in novels, when milk and cream were delivered from the farm, and the kitchen smelled of warm soup and fresh-baked bread. But I’m a millennial mom. I juggle motherhood with writing and would rather simmer a plot than a pot.