Laurie Winslow Sargent: Author & Editor
Welcome to CrossConnectMedia.com, author website for Laurie Winslow Sargent.
Sargent is the author of parenting books including Delight in Your Child’s Design, a contributor to 17 other books, and writer for dozens of national magazines with circulations of 300,000 to a million readers.
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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 for 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.
A little side-trip was editing my stepfather’s vintage science fiction manuscripts into several books, including Gremmie’s Reef (formerly titled Reawakened Worlds Vol 1.)
At this site, you’ll find:
A PUBLICATIONS page:
There you’ll find lists of books Sargent has authored and contributed to, plus magazines written for, with links to those still in print.
Sargent’s favorite letter of all time was from a woman in the Philippines, who emailed 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 the mountains of Norway.
A BLOG page.
Blog topics, posted 1-4X per month, vary from parenting to historical. At Journo Portfolio see a curated visual directory of her blog posts and also post on other websites.
Her 1920s HISTORICAL page.
This focuses on 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.
Email Laurie through this page, and also find her on X at @LaurieSargent, and Facebook as Laurie Winslow Sargent, Author for Readers, Writers, & the Eternally Curious.
A PARENTING page.
That page includes links to blog posts on a separate older parenting site which still has some perennial helps. Learn too about Delight in Your Child’s Design: Second Edition. The original paperback received international attention, and was published by Tyndale House.The updated Kindle version is with EA Books Publishing.
A 1960s SCI-FI page.
Laurie’s stepfather, John Hayden Howard (known also as Hayden Howard) was an internationally-known science fiction author and award nominee in the 1960s and peer of Isaac Asimov (who included Howard’s work in one of his own anthologies.) Sargent, as Howard’s executor compiled his short stories into anthologies with WildBlue Press.
A WRITING TIPS page.
This has links to older blog posts on how to write and sell nonfiction which come from Sargent’s Sell Your Nonfiction writing workshops which she taught at writers’ conferences and community colleges in various states. She was also interviewed on this topic in various radio interviews and at a few television studios.
Sargent currently lives with her husband in NE Florida. The have three amazing young adult children, and seven grandchildren, all whose individual personalities are fascinating and fun.
We hope you enjoy this site. Laurie LOVES it when real live people comment on her posts!