Christine has a BA in political science from
Smith College and a combined MA in International Relations, German and English
Literature from the University of Constance, Germany. Her parenting and humor
articles have been published in hundreds of publications. She also has an extensive background in marketing.
She has been featured in the Boston Globe Magazine, Financial Times, Boston Herald, Better Homes and Gardens, BookPleasures.com, National Association of Women Writers newsletter , and more!
PR CONSULTANT:
Since March, 2004, Christine has been a creative PR consultant for book authors and small businesses. Her popular on-line course "How to Market Your Book" has helped authors of all stripes gain national attention. She later morphed the course into her CD-Rom, The Author's Companion. She is a founding member of the Mom-Writers Publishing Cooperative with Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing. Formerly, she consulted with a Charlottesville
(VA) area PR firm, Cornerstone Communications (now Four Leaf PR). She currently works as a PR writer for one of the top PR firms in the US, Wasabi Publicity.
COLUMNIST:
She had a biweekly newspaper column entitled "American
Housewife Abroad" and several Web-based columns: Diary
of a Mom at SanityCentral.com, Diary
of a Mother, at justformom.com, and a syndicated
column through Family-Content.com
(also called Diary
of a Mother). She is now focusing more on freelance writing. Her parenting articles, poetry,
fiction and humor writing have been published in hundreds of publications
such as Parenting, Sasee, Transitions Abroad, Philosophical Mother, Skyline Literary Magazine,
Poesy, iparenting.com, SheKnows.com, and more.
PUBLIC SPEAKER:
Hire Christine as a speaker for your next club meeting or keynote event. Notable topics:
Parenting, What the Ivy Leagues Don't Tell You About 21st Century Parenting
How to Raise Bilingual Children
How to Live a Creative Life
How to Nurture the Nurturer
MOTHER:
When she isn't networking, doing public speaking, writing, or wiping up messes,
Christine generally likes to frolic with her husband and two children in their
home near Munich, Germany.
For an interview or speaking engagement, contact Christine Louise Hohlbaum
at Christine @ DiaryofaMother.com (without the spaces).