Rebecca Eckler
Template:Short description Template:BLP sources 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]
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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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
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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
Further reading
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External links
- NinePoundDictator - Author's blog
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