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2010 Parenting Publications of America Awards:
In the Category of Service Feature
Bronze: Augusta Family Magazine; "More Than a Meet and Greet," Lucy Adams, writer; The parent-teacher conference is the subject of this helpful feature, which highlights ways parents can make the most of these informational sessions. One parent's slightly embarrassing experience helps break the ice for other parents who may be feeling apprehensive.

In the Category of General Feature Writing

Silver: Augusta Family Magazine; "Failure," Karin Calloway, editor; Lucy Adams, writer; Kate Metts, publisher
The writer uses personal experience to share a powerful lesson on how to help your kids deal with failure. Augmented with quotes and a sidebar on Famous Failures, the story comes back to the lead anecdote in its poignant and humorous conclusion.

2009 Parenting Publications of America Awards:
 In the category of General Feature Writing
Silver: Augusta Family Magazine; "Good Sportsmanship"; Karin Calloway, editor; Michael Rushrook, art director; Kate Metts, publisher; Lucy Adams, writer
A range of informed sources and personal touch reminds parents about the responsibilities — and rewards — of teaching youth good sportsmanship.

 www.BookClubQueen.com Reviews If Mama

BookClubQueen.com is featuring a January interview with Lucy Adams plus a review of If Mama Don't Laugh, It Ain't Funny.  Follow the links below:

Review:  http://www.book-club-queen.com/book-club-suggestion-3.html

Interview:  http://www.book-club-queen.com/reading-group-guides-2.html

Feature Box:  http://www.book-club-queen.com/book-club-ideas.html

Mama Lit Review

Read Mary Bordner Tanck's glowing review of If Mama in which she writes, "So pour yourself a nice tall beer, draw a warm bath, and dig in to If Mama Don’t Laugh, It Ain’t Funny. You won’t regret one minute of the time you spend with Lucy Adams."

To read the entire review, click the link above, click on the page header, and scroll down the left side.

Proud to Say Georgia

Lucy Adams and If Mama Don't Laugh, It Ain't Funny listed on the UGA Alumni author web page, along with many other prestigious authors and books.  Check out your favorites from UGA!

Mid-Morning Live Interview - WTOC Savannah

Sonny Dixon interviews Lucy about If Mama Don't Laugh, It Ain't Funny.  See the clip.

Podcast Interview with Lucy

Steve Lubetkin, of Middle Chamber Books, hosts a podchat with Lucy about her family, her syndicated column, and her book,  If Mama Don't Laugh, It Ain't Funny.   Take a listen, today.

Awards Day

award_rl.jpgLucy receives award for her blog.  Click on the Awards Day link above and scroll down to read more.

  • Lucy Wins First Place in Southern Humorists Poetry Contest -

And the worst Badde Pome for 2008 is...

LUCY B GOOSEY

More than fungus loves your feet,
More than roadkill loves the street,
More than babies love to pooh,
That is how much I love you.

Read the rest at Southern Humorists . . .

Press Release - Lucy Adams is Augusta Family Magazine's February Mom's the Word blogger. 

Book review by online magazine Estella's Revenge.  (Be warned - the reviewer didn't like the cover a'tall.)

Featured Story on www.SouthernHumorists.com

Advice for Newly and (Possibly) Not So Newly Weds

By Lucy Adams

 

 

In January my husband and I celebrated our wedding anniversary.  As we drove around on a Friday night looking for a restaurant without an hour and a half wait, my blood sugar dropped dramatically, and romance faded, and we began bickering, mostly because he kept instructing me to turn in right there.  There being a place I just passed, requiring me to slam on the brakes, cross three lanes of oncoming traffic, and dodge a stray dog. 

Read More - http://www.southernhumorists.com/adams.html

Lucy Was Spotted . . . Signing Books

http://spotted.augusta.com/display.html?event=61115184&gallery=81687&page=8&photo=392131&sort=

Columbia County News-Times

Book compiles teacher's musings on life
Author got start in newspaper column

 By Lynn Davidson
Morris News Service

  If there's one lesson Lucy Adams has learned, it's that Mama is always right.

 After years of reading the shenanigans of Adams ' children in her weekly newspaper columns, her mother is "laughing now ... because she always told me that someday I would have kids just like me."  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Read more -  http://newstimes.augusta.com/stories/120907/new_175898.shtml

 

Guest Writer - www.QueenJawJaw.com (a.k.a. The Queen of Experiences)

That’s when I admitted to myself that married people with children (with being the key word, because married people without most certainly could accomplish the task, post haste) can’t possibly write books on how to raise progeny. Our expertise evaporated the second the obstetrician announced, “It’s a . . .”

Read more - http://www.queenjawjaw.com/guestwriter.html