“I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.” KnowsFirstsStillsBookHappensDifficultBehindsNovelKnowingIndustrySceneOfficeFirst TimeLeapElitesPublishingOccasionalBehind The ScenesInsidersWorking Behind The Scenes Author:Jennifer Gilmore
“The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.” KnowsWayShouldImportantStoriesAbleProcessSituationTragicAdoptionAdoptedOpen Adoption Author:Jennifer Gilmore
“I think we think that parenthood is confined to the country of mothers, but I think a lot of the men I've spoken to and the men who have read my books - I've been surprised by this actually - have a fierce attachment to being parents and to being fathers. And just as we, a lot of women I know, want this, men too want to pass down what they have to pass down.” ThinkingKnowsMenWantBookCountryMotherFatherParentHe ManAttachmentParenthoodFierceConfinedBeing A ParentBeing A Father Author:Jennifer Gilmore
“People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered.” PeopleIfsKnowsSeemsMightFine Author:Jennifer Gilmore
“I will say in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.” KnowsNeedsStoriesChoicesDealsRaceSpecialAmountLaysIllnessMental IllnessAdoptionChoices You MakeMaladySpecial NeedsOpen Adoption Author:Jennifer Gilmore
