Ms. Mary Jo Tate:  Homeschool Conference Speaker and Workshop Leader Details

• Business: Authoring / Publishing
• Language Arts: Writing

Writing for Publication and Building a Writing Business
Have you always dreamed of being a writer? Do you enjoy sharing your thoughts and words through blogging? Have you scribbled stories since childhood, or do you have information and expertise you want to share with the world? Do you dream of the day you’ll see your very own book in print? Join international editor and book coach Mary Jo Tate as she explains how to improve your writing, research the market for your ideas, evaluate your publishing options, become a published author, and build a successful writing business.

How Do You Do It All? Balancing Family Life and Home Business
Home business blends well with homeschooling, but it can also create frustration, exhaustion, and chaos. You may be paralyzed by an overwhelming to-do list and become trapped in a crisis-management approach to life. You may even wonder what good it does to be working at home if you’re too busy to spend time with your children. As a single homeschooling mom with four sons and a home business, Mary Jo Tate knows just how hard the challenges can be! She’ll share powerful strategies to help you move past the juggling act and find balance so you, your family, and your business can flourish.

•Homeschooled and financially supported four sons as a single since 2001
•Host of “Homeschool Spotlight” for the Homeschool Channel
•Author:  Critical Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work
•Author:  Get Started as a Freelance Editor
•Author:  How Do You Do It All? Balancing Family Life and Home Business in the Real World
•Book coach for twenty-five years
•International editor, whose clients have included Cambridge University Press and Apologia Educational Ministries
•Her articles have been featured in Focus on the Family and The Career-at-Home Mom
•Former Copy Editor for Homeschooling Today magazine
•Former Managing Editor for Family Reformation magazine
•B.A. in English and philosophy from the University of Mississippi
•M.A. in English from the University of South Carolina