About Erica Lyons
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Shavua Shorts: More Writing About My Mom
This week was mostly focused on trying to pack away some of my mother’s things. It’s been over a year, but everything was left just as it was the day she fell. She was disorganized and accumulated far too many [Read More]
Signed with an Agent!
I think I’m meant to write one of those long ‘how I found my agent’ posts because I’m now officially represented by Caryn Wiseman of the Andrea Brown Literacy Agency!
I’m so excited to begin to work on my MG Historical [Read More]
The Vaccine Wasn’t Ready in Time to Save Mom (published on Modern Loss)
It’s Sunday, April 11, 2021. Two days from now, it will have been one year since my mother passed away, according to the Gregorian calendar. The yahrzeit, or anniversary on the Hebrew calendar, has just passed, and I spent most [Read More]
Publishing Filled With Losses and Wins
Publishing is filled with losses and wins though this week it was mostly wins.
- My piece for Modern Loss was published so I suppose that is a publishing win. It was about receiving the COVID vaccine a year after [Read More]
Ways to Give Aid for COVID Relief in India
The Jewish community of India is very dear to my heart.
India is undergoing a major COVID crisis right now. If we have all learned anything from COVID, it is that we are all in this together.
If you want [Read More]
Shavua Shorts (Spring Fling Win!)
Writing can be slow and solitary. This turned out to be a pretty exciting week in my writing world.
- I was a winner of the Spring Fling KidLit Contest for my story The Art of the Park.
- I joined [Read More]
Writing, Editing, Querying, Repeat
It was more writing, editing, and querying. Repeat. I’m still determined to get a piece into Tiny Love – one day.
I wrote and then revised a picture book manuscript based on a story from Talmud. I’m particularly excited about it [Read More]
WJC Plenary: Diversity in Jewish Leadership – Pathways & Opportunities for an Inclusive Future (13 May 2021)
On 13 May 2021, 09:00 (New York), 15:00 (Brussels), 16:00 (Jerusalem) at the WJC Plenary, I will participate in a panel discussion on Diversity in Jewish Leadership – Pathways & Opportunities for an Inclusive Future. This event is designed to start conversations [Read More]
A Rollercoaster: Ups & Downs of Covid Writing
Back on the rollercoaster of publishing (and life) ups and downs.
It was the 1st yahrzeit (anniversary on the Hebrew calendar) of my mother’s death. I ordinarily sleep for 5-6 hours. I slept for 12. By the end of a very [Read More]