{"id":2249,"date":"2020-05-17T21:34:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T01:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2020-05-17T21:34:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T01:34:04","slug":"of-anchors-books-and-juggling-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2020\/05\/17\/of-anchors-books-and-juggling-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Anchors, Books, and Juggling Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My guess is that in other cities television news anchors and radio broadcasters don\u2019t generally write books, but in Charlotte it\u2019s another story.   This month Molly Grantham, a WBTV news anchor, published her second book, The Juggle Is Real:  The Off-Camera Life of an On-Camera Mom.  <\/em>Grantham is not the only Charlotte-area anchor or broadcaster to have published multiple books.  Sheri Lynch of the Bob and Sheri <\/em>radio show has also published two books, and the former news anchor Robert Inman has published numerous books.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grantham\u2019s The Juggle Is Real <\/em>is a follow-up volume to her first book, Small Victories, <\/em>which came out in 2017.\u00a0 In fact, both books share the same subtitle:\u00a0 The Off-Camera Life of an On-Camera Mom.\u00a0 <\/em>Grantham wrote her first book while on maternity leave.\u00a0 It started as a series of Facebook posts that she wrote on a weekly basis shortly after the birth of her second child.\u00a0 Small Victories <\/em>has a candid and humorous feel to it.\u00a0 The Juggle Is Real<\/em> is just as candid has her first book, but it is more serious in tone.\u00a0 The book opens with Grantham recounting her visit with her dying mother.\u00a0 From there she writes about experiences of juggling her job and her responsibilities as a parent while working from home because of the coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0 Grantham includes lots of humorous observations in this memoir, but it is all set against the sobering backdrop of our current public health crisis.\u00a0 For more information about Grantham\u2019s books, please click on the following link:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.mollygrantham.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grantham\u2019s two memoirs are perfect shelf mates to Sheri Lynch\u2019s two books about motherhood:\u00a0 Hello, My Name Is Mommy:\u00a0 The Dysfunctional Girl\u2019s Guide to Having, Loving (and Hopefully Not Screwing Up) a Baby,<\/em> published in 2004; and Be Happy or I\u2019ll Scream!:\u00a0 My Deranged Quest for the Perfect Husband, Family, and Life, <\/em>published in 2007.\u00a0 Both Grantham and Lynch have a knack for writing self-deprecating humor, but Lynch\u2019s humor is a bit edgier than Grantham\u2019s.\u00a0 Like Grantham, Lynch writes about the difficulties of juggling her family life and her career, but Lynch\u2019s juggling act often doubles as a comedy act.\u00a0 For more information about Lynch\u2019s career, please click on the following link:\u00a0 https:\/\/bobandsheri.com\/bio\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of the Charlotte-area news anchors who have also published books, no one can match the record of Robert Inman.  From 1979 to 1996, Inman worked as a news anchor for WBTV, but he took an interest in writing novels in the mid-1980s.  He published his first novel, Home Fires Burning,<\/em> in 1987.  In 1996, he decided to step down as a news anchor and become a full-time writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and essays.  For more information about Inman\u2019s books, please click on the following link:  http:\/\/robert-inman.com\/about-the-author<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inman\u2019s most recent novel, The Governor\u2019s Lady, <\/em>came out in 2013.  Like Grantham\u2019s and Lynch\u2019s memoirs, this novel deals with the experiences of a woman attempting to juggle multiple roles and expectations.  In the case of The Governor\u2019s Lady,<\/em> the central character is Cooper Lanier, the wife of an ambitious southern governor who decides to run for President of the United States. Her husband concocts a plan for her to succeed him as governor so that he can devote more time to his presidential campaign.  However, when she is elected governor, she finds herself torn between being a stand-in for her husband and following her own ideas and plans.  The result is a story that combines family dynamics and political intrigue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Molly Grantham, Sheri Lynch, and Robert Inman, the demands associated with their broadcasting careers have not prevented them from launching new careers as authors.  All three of them have written memorable books about the realities of contemporary women\u2019s lives, and Storied Charlotte is richer for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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