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| The White Lie sold to Simon & 06/22/2010 |
| I'm thrilled to announce that my novel The White Lie, which I've been working on for four years, has been sold to Simon & Schuster's Gallery. The White Lie started out as a historical novel, the story of an Irish nanny whose young charge dies in the 1916 polio epidemic, and has morphed into a three-time-period tale of pregnancy, motherhood, and adoption. The book will be out (I hope) next fall, and I'm beginning work on another historical novel I've had on the back burner for a few years now. So excited! |
| HO SPRINGS is here! 02/17/2010 |
| My innovative new serialized online novel, Ho Springs is live and ready for your reading pleasure. I'm updating the main story live every day, and there are blogs and contributions from a host of talented writers and musicians, including novelists Benilde Little (Good Hair) and Debra Galant (Rattled) and food writer Susan Sherrill Axelrod. See y'all there. |
| NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! 09/05/2009 |
| How Not To Act Old debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List at #7! That's a first for me, and a real thrill. Here's what the Inside The List column in the Times Book Review said about HNTAO. |
| WSJ reviews HNTAO 07/08/2009 |
| The Wall Street Journal calls How Not To Act Old "as insightful as it is entertaining." I'm delighted with this excellent review, which also includes an excerpt from the book: which items of hipster gear you can and can't get away with wearing. For ongoing new posts and to find out the latest about the book, go to How Not To Act Old. |
| HOW NOT TO ACT OLD has a new h 06/24/2009 |
| My website for How Not To Act Old is freshly relaunched, with a new logo taken from the book cover, concept thanks to my 16-year-old son Owen. There will be new posts every week, plus I'll be posting at More magazine's new site.
More also includes a fabulous excerpt from the book in its July/August issue. And look for the book on sale August 1. Order it through More magazine via bn.com and get a special discount! |
| FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER 06/14/2009 |
| Yes, I'm tweeting, and actually starting to like it. Follow me at prsatran. |
| WASHINGTON POST TRAVEL STORY 05/18/2009 |
| I love the town of Lynchburg, Virginia, not far from Virginia Center of the Creative Arts. Here's my recent "ode to Lynchburg" travel story from the Washington Post. |
| OBSESSED TV APPEARANCE 04/24/2009 |
| There's a long interview with me on ObsessedTV, Samantha Ettus's wonderful web TV channel where she interviews experts on many subjects. For baby name aficionados and fanatics. |
| WRITE ON! ONLINE 04/17/2009 |
| There's an interview with me on the website Write On! Online, which considers lots of interesting issues about the writing process and profession. |
| USA WEEKEND QUOTE 03/21/2009 |
| I'm quoted in this Sunday's USA Weekend on the name Hillary -- and Barack, Malia, Sasha, and Michelle. I wish they'd mentioned nameberry or our new book Cool Irish Names, but maybe this will help you who are curious find the site and the books. |
| EVERY WOMAN FACEBOOK GROUP 01/20/2009 |
| I'm loving this: a Facebook group devoted to my infamous Glamour List, What Every Woman Should Have and Should Know. Check it out and become a member! I am..... |
| NAMEBERRY ON REUTERS 11/12/2008 |
| Reuters.com asked me to write a wish list to our President-Elect on behalf of small business owners. Here's my Dear Santa letter to Barack Obama, published on the Reuters website. Check out nameberry's home page for the full details on all the great press we've gotten. |
| THE DAILY BEAST MACHA QUIZ 11/02/2008 |
| I have a new piece in today's issue of The Daily Beast, Tina Brown's cool new web site. It's a kind of quiz, asking How Macha Are You?. It's based on an idea I had rattling around in my lil old female brain for quite a while, and it made me laugh out loud as I was writing it (always a good sign, when you're writing humor). |
| NAMEBERRY IS BORN! 10/10/2008 |
| Nameberry, the huge new baby-naming site that Linda Rosenkrantz and I have been working on for a year, is finally launched and ready for the world to meet! We're so excited about this project, which draws on content from all our books plus fresh baby-naming information and news every day. Please check out Nameberry and let me know what you think! And pass it on to all the baby-namers (or pet and character namers) you know. |
| HOW NOT TO ACT OLD 06/12/2008 |
| I have a new pet project, my blog called How Not To Act Old. Every day I add new ways not to act old, from not yelling into your cell phone to not counting out exact change to not bragging about your adult kids. Check it out, tell all your friends, and leave me a message! |
| SATELLITE RADIO TOUR 05/19/2008 |
| On May 21st I did a whirlwind satellite radio tour for my new book 1000 Ways To Be A Slightly Better Woman , spending eight hours on the phone doing back-to-back interviews with stations from Boston to Birmingham, Tucson to Atlanta. To listen to one of the interviews on the writing of the book, with psychologist Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, go to sweet spot podcasts,
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| YOUNGER: THE TV SERIES 03/08/2008 |
| My novel Younger has recently been optioned by The Shuman Company for development as a television series. Now that the writers' strike is over, I'm looking forward to seeing a script and being tapped for a starring role. |
| SLIGHTLY BETTER WOMAN 02/13/2008 |
 My new nonfiction book 1000 WAYS TO BE A SLIGHTLY BETTER WOMAN , coming out in April from Stewart, Tabori & Chang, has been chosen by the independent booksellers association Booksense as a Notable Book. This is quite an honor and I'm thrilled. I'm lucky enough to live in a town with not one but two independent bookstores, Watchung Booksellers and Montclair Book Center, and encourage you to look for my new book at a Booksense store near you or go here. Feminist Review calls it: "An enjoyable read with practical and to the point advice that at times made me smile and nod my head in agreement, 1,000 Ways To Be A Slightly Better Woman would make a great gift for yourself or for any woman in your life."
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| EVERY WOMAN LIST QUILTED! 01/19/2008 |
| This is one of the coolest things that's happened to me in a long time: Celeste Janey, a Boston area artist who makes museum-quality quilts, wants to create one around my infamous Glamour List, "What Every Woman Should Have and Should Know." And after turning down all past requests to reproduce or license the list, Glamour -- which owns the copyright -- has said yes! Thanks, editor Cindi Leive and executive editor Susan Goodall. I love Celeste Janey's work and I'm thrilled and honored that she's chosen my work to transform into one of her gorgeous quilts. |
| BRILLIANT BOOK OF BABY NAMES 08/01/2007 |
| The British version of THE BABY NAME BIBLE, titled THE BRILLIANT BOOK OF BABY NAMES, will be out next week from HarperCollins. It's got a different cover (baby with outrageous boa) and Anglicized spellings, but otherwise much of the information is the same. But this kind of huge comprehensive baby-naming book is something new for the Brits. |
| Foreign Editions 09/25/2006 |
| Suburbanistas has just been sold to DeKern in The Netherlands, which also published the Dutch edition of The Man I Should Have Married. Babes in Captivity has been published in France by J'Ai Lu, where it's called Las Meres En Pelote, or Mothers on the Verge, and also is forthcoming in Russia, Norway, Thailand, and Bulgaria. The British edition, published by Penguin in spring 2005, will come out under its original title, Down There. The Man I Should Have Married has most recently been sold to Gramedia in Indonesia. |
| YOUNGER Target Breakout Book 09/16/2005 |
| Target has chosen my novel Younger as one of its three main Breakout Books for September. This means Younger gets a special display in Target stores and a great display on its web site. |