Sorry for the long absence! The last few months have seen a few major transitions in my life - I got a job at Red Room.com, and I moved from Brooklyn to San Francisco! I’ve been spending the last month settling in, learning the ropes at my new job, and doing my best to answer the emails I’ve been receiving from all of you! First, I’d like to tell you a little bit about where I work…
Red Room is the online home of the world’s greatest writers, and I’m honored to be listed in the same company as Ishmael Reed, Salman Rushdie, Maya Angelou, and over a thousand others. My official title at Red Room is Community Coordinator, which basically means that I work within the Community Department coordinating all aspects of maintaining the non-technical aspects of the site, as well as working to expand our community and communicate with our authors and members. We’re aiming to become the Facebook for the literary world, with a free and elegant place for avid readers, writers, agents, and publishers to communicate, connect, and promote their work. In the future, I’ll be blogging far more frequently at Red Room, and you can read my blog by clicking going here:
www.redroom.com/author/max-sindell
Moving and my new job haven’t taken up all of my time, however. I was interviewed by author Carolyn Ellis for her award winning podcast, Divorce 101. It was a terrific two part interview, and you check it out at her website, divorce101show.com.
I also had the opportunity to read the book School Days and the Divorce Maze, by Dr Renae Lapin. Using a career’s worth of experience, Dr. Lapin makes sure to ask all the questions parents might forget to ask when it comes to dealing with the logistics that come with raising a child under split custody. I also communicated with Kara Bishop, who runs an innovative campaign called Postcards from Splitsville.com, where kids can send their parents postcards explaining how they feel.
In other news, I’m finally starting work on my next book, one that will help parents avoid making the worst and most common mistakes that come with raising a child after divorce. If you can think of anything that you or your parents did that you wish they hadn’t don’t hesitate to share your story with me by emailing me. That’s all for now, and remember to check out my blog at Red Room, as I’ll be posting there a lot more often. Thanks for reading.
