About The Write Magic














    Jean MacLeod is a professional writer and a freelance editor. She is the author of regular
    feature articles in family and parenting magazines, sports magazines, and national and
    international educational newsletters. Her work has also been published in Adoptive Families
    Magazine, Adoption TODAY Magazine and in the adoption essay books Passage to the Heart
    and Finding Happiness.

        Jean is the author of At Home in This World, a China adoption story and contributing co-
    editor of Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections (EMK Press), a 520
    page, ground-breaking book of parenting information and advice from adoption professionals,
    parent-experts and adult adoptees. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English/ Creative
    Writing from Western Michigan University, and is currently writing web-content for several
    publications, and a monthly column for Children's Hope international.

        Jean has co-developed and facilitated parent education workshops with family therapist, Doris
    Landry, MS., and has connected ‘parent-to-parent’ with support groups and in conferences
    across the USA, Canada and England. Jean has presented at the Midwest Adoption
    Conference, the national KAAN conference, and keynoted at the Colorado Heritage Camps.
    Working with Dr. Jane Liedtke, founder of Our Chinese Daughter’s Foundation, Jean led an
    Orphanage Reunion / Homeland Tour in China, and created the OCDF Speakers Institute. She is
    the mother of three daughters, two of whom were adopted from China, and can appreciate each
    client's personal perspective, unique world-view, and family / cultural background.
    
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