NICOLE J. BURTON

I'm moderating a literary panel on "Darkness and Light" tomorrow at the Mishkan Torah Synagogue Book Fair. I think this statement, intend...

Adoption videos are hitting YouTube like crazy. Not just personal video stories but professionally produced videos about adoption reform....

Here's a thoughtful post about open adoption, which is adoption best practice: http://tinyurl.com/nts3qm Happy Labor Day!s.

I don't know where my mother went when she was pregnant with me. She was 23, as was my father; they'd gone to high school together. She'd...

Trust is a huge issue for all of us in the adoption constellation. Adoptive parents must trust that their children will accept them as ...

It's one thing to reveal our own lives and feelings, yet another to do the same for our loved ones. In publishing Swimming Up the Sun, I'...

Detroit filmmaker Joan Mandell recalled shooting the stories of birth mothers and fathers as part of a campaign to help teens become more...

I've been making the rounds of local adoption agencies and adoption counselling organizations: CASE, Adoptions Together, and the Barker F...

I've got a busy Fall schedule of events and would love to see you at any of them. First up is an author signing at Borders Books in Downt...

I visited my Adoption Order many times growing up. My father kept in his bureau drawer along with the passports. (It's amended here to pr...

I really like Seth Godin's Advice to Authors regarding publishing. My printer, Lightning Source, is great to work with. They're owned by ...

Listen on the Web to my interview on Tuesday, July 22, 2:00-3:00PM ET on "Speaking of Adoption" with Donna Montalbano. Rhode Island's WOO...

The American Adoption Congress 30th Annual Conference is in Cleveland, Ohio next year on April 22-25, 2009. If you're in the adoption con...

In publishing Swimming Up the Sun, I often hear from people who want to search for family members. Perhaps they've tried, and it didn't w...

As an person raised under closed adoption, I never knew openness of the kind Micky Duxbury writes about in Making Room in Our Hearts. I l...

I often write about memory. My play-in-progress, FRED AND FRIEDA, is about a Holocaust survivor who suppressed her memories and now wants...

I'll be signing copies of Swimming Up the Sun at Bethany Books, 99 Garfield Parkway, Bethany Beach, DE on Tuesday, June 24, at 7PM. Do st...

I'll be reading and signing books at The Book Nook Bookstore, a new bookstore in Hyattsville, Maryland on Saturday, April 19, 1:30 - 3:00...

This was the theme of the phenomenal American Adoption Congress conference I attended last month in Portland, Oregon. The biggest surpris...

Swimming Up the Sun is now available for purchase at amazon.com!