Jannie Balliett
(979) 820-4418

I'm a freelance writer, copywriter and editor. I'm currently writing two novels, one a paranormal crime thriller, and the other, a paranormal thriller.

I'm a member of Sisters In Crime, the Short Mystery Fiction Society, Brazos Writers Group and other affiliations. I am also a member of Crimespace where published authors network, and Ryze network, Suite 101, Blog Writers and Artists, and others.

I have an advice column "Ask JR" located on Advicenators.com and also my personal, AskJr.blogspot.com. I also have a Myspace website.

I've been published in the Writers Post Journal Magazine three times, and recently in Whim's Place Flash Collection Anthology book which will be in Barnes & Nobles and Amazon in 2008.

I am a freelance editor and freelance writer, copyeditor, copywriter, technical writer, and beginning my professional career seeking an agent and publisher for my novel "Leave A Whisper. All my works have referenced reviews by my peers.

I am available 24/7 to work as an editor, copywriter, professional blogger, web developer and copywriter, webmaster and bulletin board moderator and copywriter. I am mature with grown children, no dependants or responsibilities to hinder my endeavors, and free to concentrate my efforts on the job at hand.

I'm a Texan in the Austin area. After transplanting to Texas thirty-nine years ago, raising three, now grown Texans, I can say I'm a Texan. It's an unwritten law in Texas.

Please feel free to contact me any time: jannieballiett@yahoo.com.

My passion is ...

Writing and music

I know too much about ...

Writing and teaching writing, editing and computers

My parents always told me ...

Never lie (maybe that's why I like writing fiction the most)

My childhood ambition ...

To be a published novelist

My favorite memory ...

Writing stories at age 4

Why I write ...

Because I have to-- it's who I am

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Dean R.. Koontz's "VELOCITY"

My first job ...

Finance manager

My best moment ...

Too many to name-- but having three kids and grandkids tops it-- and one great-granddaughter too

My inspiration ...

Dean R. Koontz and Keith Ablow both

Parenting & Pregnancy > Problems Parents Face Understanding how fathers may parent differently from mothers: Striking a balance

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Natural parents and step-parents have a completely different method of parenting despite the gender different of parents.

Natural parents, general raise and discipline according to their own upbringing and even some, just the exact opposite due to unhappier childhoods.

Obviously those will differ, as no mother and father were raised the same, nor have the same attitude of raising a child.

Step-parents are a category all to their own. They tend to raise their children out of guilt for the terminated marriage and broken family. Some fathers spoil the child from the previous marriage ...

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