Welcome to CrossConnectMedia.com, author website for Laurie Winslow Sargent.

Laurie Winslow Sargent is the author of parenting books including Delight in Your Child’s Design and a contributor to 17 other books and dozens of national magazines.

A Note From Laurie:

Thanks so much for visiting my site! I first began writing in 1988, when my three children were small, slipping writing time into nap-times, then later their school hours. It was fun writing over a hundred articles, mostly for national magazines, including for Christian Parenting Today (a terrific magazine, which sadly is no longer in print.) I was delighted to write two parenting books for Tyndale House Publishers, and have enjoyed writing chapters for anthologies for other Christian publishers and also Chicken Soup for the Soul.

I currently enjoy historical writing based on fun family stories, since I inherited many fascinating 100-year-old letters and antique photos from my grandparents. I’m also writing God-stories–about amazing ways Christ has touched our family–hoping to pass down those stories to my grown children and lovely seven grandchildren and encourage their own faith.

At this site, you’ll find:

A PUBLICATIONS page: lists books Sargent has authored and contributed to, plus magazines written for.

Some of those magazines had circulations of 300,00 to a million readers at the time. Sargent’s favorite letter of all time was from a woman in the Philippines, who wrote Laurie about her first book The Power of Parent-Child Play. She and Laurie have now been Facebook friends for 21 years!

Another memorable moment was finding her book in a bookmobile in New Zealand, circulating among the Maori people. Her most fun magazine article was about a Norwegian athlete in the Lillehammer Olympic Winter Games, who Sargent interviewed at her home in Norway.

A BLOG page: with new posts 1-4 times per month.

Blog topics vary from parenting to historical. If you’d like to see a pictorial directory of all posts here and also on other websites which have Laurie’s articles posted online, see Laurie’s Journo Portfolio page, which you can also Subscribe to, to not miss any new blog posts.

Her 1920s HISTORICAL page includes tales of her American grandparents’ years in British Raj India (1923-1933.)

Laurie also has stories from the late 1800s, with her family tree containing many fascinating characters.

A CONTACT page.

You can also find Laurie on X at @LaurieSargent and Facebook as Laurie Winslow Sargent, Author for Readers, Writers, & the Eternally Curious.

A PARENTING page: with links to blog posts on a separate parenting site.

That old parenting site is not updated often, but still has some perennial helps. See too, on Amazon, the updated and revised Kindle book Delight in Your Child’s Design: Second Edition. The original paperback of that book (no longer in print) received international attention, and was published by Tyndale House.This updated Kindle version is with EA Books Publishing.

A 1960s SCI-FI page: about the stories of John Hayden Howard and new anthologies of his works.

Laurie’s stepfather, John Hayden Howard (known also as Hayden Howard) was a popular science fiction author and award nominee in the 1960s, internationally known in places including the US, UK, Australia, and Italy, and Estonia. Sargent, as Howard’s executor compiled his short stories into the Reawakened Worlds anthology series (Vol One, 2023; Vol Two, 2024; WildBlue Press.)

A WRITING TIPS page: with links to blog posts on writing and selling nonfiction magazine articles and books.

Some of those posts were originally handouts for Sargent’s Sell Your Nonfiction writing workshops, which she taught at writers’ conferences and community colleges in three states and discussed in various radio interviews and a few television studios.

Sargent currently lives with her husband in NE Florida. They are the proud parents of three amazing young adults and seven grandchildren whose individual personalities are fascinating and fun.

We hope you enjoy this site. Laurie LOVES it when real live people comment on her posts!