Welcome to CrossConnectMedia.com, author website for author Laurie Winslow Sargent. Sargent is the author of Delight in Your Child’s Design, and contributor to 17 books and dozens of magazines. She recently compiled the Reawakened Worlds 1960s sci-fi anthologies by John Hayden Howard.

At this site, you’ll find:

A BLOG page: with new posts 1-4 times per month.

Blog topics vary, with 2024 focus on a mix of historical fun and vintage sci-fi info and links. If you’d like to see a pictorial directory of all posts here and also on other websites, see Laurie’s Journo Portfolio page, which you can also Subscribe to, to not miss any new blog posts.

A 1920s HISTORICAL page: including tales of Sargent’s American grandparents’ years in British Raj India (1923-1933.)

Laurie also has stories from the late 1800s, with her family tree containing many fascinating characters.

A 1960s SCI-FI: Reawakened Worlds page: about the stories of John Hayden Howard and new anthologies of his works.

Also known as Hayden Howard, he was a popular science fiction author and award nominee in the 1960s. He was known internationally, including in the US, UK, Australia, and Italy, and Estonia. Sargent, as Howard’s executor (he was her stepfather) compiled his short stories into the Reawakened Worlds anthology series (Vol One, 2023; Vol Two, 2024; WildBlue Press.)

Laurie Winslow Sargent’s PUBLICATIONS page: lists books authored and contributed to, plus magazines written for.

Some of those magazines had circulations of 300,00 to a million readers at the time. Sargent’s favorite letter of all time was from a woman in the Philippines, who wrote her about her first book The Power of Parent-Child Play. She and Laurie have now been Facebook friends for 21 years!

Another memorable moment was finding her book in a bookmobile in New Zealand, circulating among the Maori people. Her most fun magazine article was about a Norwegian athlete in the Lillehammer Olympic Winter Games, who Sargent interviewed at her home in Norway.

A CONTACT page.

You can also find Laurie on X at @LaurieSargent, and her FB page, Laurie Winslow Sargent, Author for Readers, Writers, & the Eternally Curious.

A PARENTING page: with links to blog posts on my separate parenting site.

That separate parenting site is not updated often, but still has some perennial helps. See too on Amazon the Kindle edition of her book Delight in Your Child’s Design. The original paperback of that book (OOP) which received international attention, was with Tyndale House Publishers. This updated Kindle version is with EA Books Publishing.

A WRITING TIPS page: with links to blog posts on writing and selling nonfiction magazine articles and books.

Some of those posts were originally handouts for Sargent’s Sell Your Nonfiction writing workshops, which she taught at writers’ conferences and community colleges in three states, with tips also discussed in various radio interviews.

Sargent currently live with my husband in NE Florida. They are the proud parents of three amazing young adults and six grandchildren whose individual personalities are fascinating and fun.

We hope you enjoy this site, and LOVE it when people comment on posts!