Rebecca Eckler

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Rebecca Eckler is a Canadian book publisher, former writer of columns and blogs about motherhood, and author of numerous books, including Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-Be (2004), Wiped! Life with a Pint-Sized Dictator, (2007), and The Mommy Mob: Inside the Outrageous World of Mommy Blogging (2014). [1] [2]

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Career

As columnist and blogger

Eckler was employed by the National Post from 2000 to 2005. [3] She was among a number of staff whose jobs were terminated by the CanWest newspaper chain. [4] From March–December 2006, Eckler wrote "Mommy Blogger", a weekly freelance piece in The Globe and Mail, appending to this set of blogs a departing blog in May 2007. [5] Eckler wrote blog posts that appeared occasionally in the Canadian periodical Maclean's from 2008 to 2016. [6] [2] Eckler's work also appeared in Mademoiselle . [1]

As book author

Eckler became pregnant with her daughter, Rowan Joely, on the night of her engagement party and published the 2004 book Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-Be about her first pregnancy.[ citation needed ] The book received negative reviews. [7] [8] [3] In April 2007, Eckler published her second book, Wiped! Life with a Pint-Sized Dictator, which chronicles her first two years of motherhood. Quill & Quire said the book was a "series of tired clichés about parenthood." [8] [9] Eckler published Blissfully Blended Bullshit with Dundurn Press in 2019, on managing life with a blended family. [8] [3] [2]

Controversies

Eckler's writing has elicited controversy. For instance, there was international coverage of the responses to her blogging about her decision to leave her 10-month old infant to join her fiancé for the duration of a celebrity golf tournament in Mexico. [10] Responses to her book and blog content have frequently included assessments of writing from privilege, shallowness and immaturity, and self-justification of non-traditional decisions. [10] [11]

Personal life

Eckler's home was referenced in the April 2007 edition of Canadian House and Home. [12] In 2007, Eckler participated in a charity auction for the magazine The Walrus , paying $7,000 for the right to have a character in Margaret Atwood's novel The Year of the Flood named after her. [13]

References

  1. 1 2 "Rebecca Eckler". Penguin Random House. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 CBC Arts (4 June 2007). "Eckler says film Knocked Up too close to home". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
  3. 1 2 3 Levy, Joel (2019-10-24). "Print Matters: Blissfully Blended Bullshit by Rebecca Eckler". Toronto Guardian. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  4. ↑ "Rebecca Eckler: Fiction vs. Non-Fiction". National Post. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
  5. ↑ "The Globe and Mail - Search". theglobeandmail.com. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "search". Maclean's. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  7. ↑ Meeker, Geoff. "Theft or inspiration?". The Telegram. Archived from the original on 2015-11-26. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  8. 1 2 3 "Author makes the best of living in a blended family". The Canadian Jewish News. 2019-06-03. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  9. ↑ "Reviews: Wiped!: Life with a Pint-Size Dictator, by Rebecca Eckler". Quill and Quire . 2007. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  10. 1 2 Silverthorne, Nadine (2012-08-24). "How Rebecca Eckler left her baby for a vacation". Today's Parent . Retrieved 2016-07-17. [Subtitle] ...Rebecca Eckler wrote a post about leaving her 10-week-old baby to go to Mexico and ignited a new debate.
  11. ↑ Fenn, Anne (2011-02-15). "If you can't tame 'em, emasculate 'em [Review of How to Raise a Boyfriend]". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  12. ↑ "Homeowner Thank You List". houseandhome.com. 28 September 2011. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  13. ↑ ECKLER, REBECCA. "I'm going to be in Atwood's book! | Maclean's | DEC. 10th 2007". Maclean's | The Complete Archive. Retrieved 2020-02-05.

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