Deborah Halverson's Blog » About Deborah and this blog

So if you read the sidebar on the left, you already know that I’m a triplet mom and writer. Sometimes I don’t know where one job leaves off and the other begins. When the boys are awake, I’m All Mom . . . almost. Even when I’m dressing, feeding, or playing with them, ideas for my stories will bubble to the top of my brain. On our daily walks, for instance, I mull my writing between exclamations like, “Look! There’s a trash truck” or “Don’t step in that! It’s yucky!” As least twice during each walk I’ll call my voicemail and leave myself a message about a story. Then later, when the boys sleep, I’m All Writer . . . almost. My favorite working spot is in a loft that’s centrally located between their napping rooms, and I have the baby monitors plugged in. Some authors write with the sounds of babbling brooks trickling from their CD players, I write to the soft snores of three wee men.

So I see this blog as a blending of my two worlds—raising triplets and writing stories. That’s why I headline the site with a triplet-related quote from good ol’ Mark Twain. The man may not have had triplets, but he had an inkling of the challenges! And, yeah, he could spin a yarn. May Twain’s words set the tone for what I hope will be a funny and frank running account of how I, a confessed Type A organization freak, try to balance the unique challenges of raising triplets with the demands of writing novels and freelance editing. You should find a bit of everything in here: glimpses into my ridiculous survival efforts during Year One with Triplets, the adventures of living with a trio of curious toddlers, the strange life that is being a writer, and even some ramblings on craft and bookloving.

Meet the family:
My husband (a teacher) and I are the proud parents of triplet sons, now five years old. Two of the boys are identical, one fraternal.

Before I heard the pitter-patter of six tiny feet, I was an editor at Harcourt Children’s Books for ten years, and I taught writing for the University of California, San Diego Extension Program. Now I’m the author of the forthcoming Writing Young Adult Fiction for Dummies (June 2011) as well as two teen novels with Delacorte/Random House: Honk If You Hate Me and Big Mouth. And in my “down time” I freelance edit fiction and nonfiction for children and adults, and I’m the founder of the writers’ advice site Dear-Editor.com. If you want details about my books, check out my website, www.DeborahHalverson.com.

So that’s the story of me and my blog. I hope you enjoy this peek at my often funny, sometimes harrowing, and always earnest efforts to keep all my balls in the air. And hey, if you do, drop me a line. I’d love to hear from you.