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| 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! |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
