Leslie Leyland Fields is the author of seven books, including Parenting Is Your Highest Calling... and Eight Other Myths that Trap Us in Worry and Guilt (Waterbrook Press, div. of Random House), Surprise Child (Waterbrook Press, div. of Random House), Surviving the Island of Grace (Thomas Dunne), Out on the Deep Blue: Women, Men and the Oceans They Fish (St. Martin's), The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives (Univ. of Illinois Press), and The Water Under Fish (Trout Creek Press).