Rebecca Eckler

Rebecca Eckler is a Canadian book publisher, former writer of columns and blogs about motherhood, and author of numerous books, including Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-Be, Wiped! Life with a Pint-Sized Dictator, (2007), and The Mommy Mob: Inside the Outrageous World of Mommy Blogging (2014). In 2022, she founded RE:books Publishing, a publisher for women authors.

Career

As columnist and blogger Eckler was employed by the National Post from 2000 to 2005. She was among a number of staff whose jobs were terminated by the CanWest newspaper chain. From March–December 2006, Eckler wrote "Mommy Blogger", a weekly freelance piece in The Globe and Mail, appending to this set of blogs a departing blog in May 2007. Eckler wrote blog posts that appeared occasionally in the Canadian periodical Maclean's from 2008 to 2016. Eckler published Blissfully Blended Bullshit with Dundurn Press in 2019, on managing life with a blended family. She subsequently also founded Rivkah Books, an imprint specializing in books on Jewish themes, and is the co-founder with Chloe Faith Robinson of CANREADS, a book review and awards platform.

Controversies

Eckler's writing has elicited controversy. For instance, there was international coverage of the responses to her blogging about her decision to leave her 10-month old infant to join her fiancé for the duration of a celebrity golf tournament in Mexico. Responses to her book and blog content have frequently included assessments of writing from privilege, shallowness and immaturity, and self-justification of non-traditional decisions.

Personal life Eckler's home was referenced in the April 2007 edition of Canadian House and Home. In 2007, Eckler participated in a charity auction for the magazine The Walrus, paying $7,000 for the right to have a character in Margaret Atwood's novel The Year of the Flood named after her.