Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Single Baby Boomers exploring the world of Internet dating.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Profileactics: A Guide for the Prevention of Ill-Conceived Personal Ads combines lessons in self-awareness and language with generous doses of wisdom and wit. The result is an invaluable tool for Baby Boomers exploring the world of Internet dating.

Hundreds of profile excerpts are used to demonstrate the often misguided efforts of Boomers looking for love. Some are hilarious, some sad and some are just strange, but all illustrate the power of words.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I am a psychotherapist in private practice for 25 years in Connecticut.

My first book, From Ex-Wife to Exceptional Life: A Woman’s Journey through Divorce won an honorable mention award from the Independent Publishers Association. It has helped thousands of women recover from divorce and find joy in their new lives.

When they began dating again, their stories of internet dating became the inspiration for this book. Profileactics assists the reader in developing a more discerning eye, not only about what not to write but also about whom not to date.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: The book focuses on the importance of an impeccably written profile. Potential suitors have literally thousands of choices. Without a good first impression there will be more rejection than connection. The book is informative and the material is approachable, upbeat and well-organized. It is a fun read!

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: Profileactics will help single Baby Boomers craft a better profile and assist them in finding the love they want; it will challenge the reader to look more deeply into themselves—beyond childhood dreams and stereotypical expectations of gender and relationship. This self-reflection will result in a heightened self-awareness and a clearer picture of what they long for in a relationship.

For more information about my practice, upcoming workshops and the books, www.donnaferber.com, or www.profileactics.com

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: This is a nonfiction book recommended for ages 18 and up.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Best friends since they met at medical school twenty-five years ago, Dr. Debra Luftman, a Beverly Hills dermatologist, and Dr. Eva Ritvo, a South Beach psychiatrist, join their expertise to take a unique look at beauty of the body and mind in the The Beauty Prescription-a guide to getting beautiful, inside and out.

Their empowering message that all women are beautiful will allow readers to:

Learn the art of self care in today’s busy world.

Care for your health, the foundation of beauty.

Play to your strengths, mentally and physically.

They also provide a Life Beauty Plan as you age, describing what you need to do in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s to look more youthful and keep your skin healthy. Dr. Debra also helps you shop for the face products that work with price points for every budget.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: Dr. Eva Ritvo is a psychiatrist and Dr. Debra Luftman is a dermatologist. This is the first beauty book that is written by two physicians in these specialties.

These charismatic physicians have redefined beauty around a groundbreaking and enabling concept: The Beauty-Brain Loop.

Busting beauty myths

How to see beauty in everything around you.

Making time to get fit and healthy.

Understanding beauty products and cosmetic procedures.

How a kind, loving, positive demeanor makes you more attractive.

Staying beautiful in times of crisis.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: This book helps women enhance their self-esteem and their looks and teaches them how to make the most of each one.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: The book has many real, some moving, personal stories from Beauty Buddies, tips on physical and psychological wellness, and wisdom from top professionals in the beauty industry. The Beauty Prescription is an owner’s manual for every woman who is ready to move beyond today’s narrow definition of beauty.

For more information, visit: www.thebeautyprescription.com

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Both adult and young adult.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Jenny Roberts yearns to escape her small hometown of Paris, Idaho and accomplish something remarkable in the world. She has many dreams but the only thing standing in her way is an unpleasant memory from her past, which haunted her since childhood. She must learn to forgive before she can choose which dream to follow. Meanwhile a legendary ten-foot grizzly by the name of Old Half Paw is seen in the area and its boldness has frightened the community.

Q: Why am I the best person to write this book?
A: This book is about dreams and the importance of following our dreams. I have given personal ancestral experiences to my characters in this family saga to add some reality to this historical fiction novel. I believe that real family experiences bring a story to life.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: It’s different because I’ve used my own family experiences in this book along with the legend of Old Ephraim, the ten-foot grizzly bear as a sub-plot.

This legendary ten-foot grizzly really existed in the southern Idaho region. After much research, I used every detail of this grizzly to add a little adventure to the story.

I blend romance, adventure, history, humor, and courage into this family saga, using emotion to bring my characters to life.

A reviewer wrote: “Jenny’s Dream tells a beautiful story that incorporates the value of loyalty, love, family and forgiveness into it. I also enjoyed how the author put real experiences, taken from her family and friends, into the plot. This is a great touch. Jenny’s Dream is a wholesome novel that will be enjoyed by family members of all ages who would enjoy a great historical romance. I think this series is destined to be a classic.”

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: Jenny is 20 years old and has three dreams. Her first dream is to accomplish something remarkable in the world.

She has read about the courageous women who forged their own paths and accomplished a lot in their lives. They were self-reliant, daring and determined women such as Susan B. Anthony who fought for Equal Rights, an important part of American history. This was Jenny’s Dream, to make a difference in the world. This is something I believe we all want to do in our lives… to make a difference!

Her second dream is to become a journalist. Writing is second nature to her ever since she was a child and this is her greatest desire. In fact, moving to Houston, Texas sounds quite intriguing to her.

Her third dream is to find a most wonderful, down to earth man to spend the rest of her life with: the man of her dreams! Little does she know that her kindred friend, Will Jones, has gradually fallen in love with her. She hasn’t known him very long but he instantly became a kindred spirit, someone she could talk to and express her inner most feelings. There is one thing standing in her way of focusing on these dreams. She must learn to forgive and put her past behind her. This story is about accomplishing one’s dreams and the miracle of forgiveness.

Jenny says, “Dreams are an important part of life, and without them, life would be so dull. If we can envision it, then I believe it can be accomplished.” Lucy Maud Montgomery touched me as a writer and I loved her books. She strongly believed in dreams. Montgomery once wrote: “While solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.” That’s how I feel. I believe that dreams are an important part of life.

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Ladies 11+ who love style, fashion, entertaining and decorating.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Mean girls grown up–it is a witty novel that is also beautifully illustrated much like The Official Preppy Handbook.

Welcome to the world of Social Climbers…
where the society season kicks off at the opening night of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Main Line ladies compete to get their names on committees, invitations and their picture in the newspaper.

SC Elizabeth Quinn is a young lady determined to make it to the Philadelphia A-list. Each invitation (or snub) is a benchmark of her struggle. While Elizabeth is a SC, she lacks the ferocity of the ladies she will encounter. She’ll see schoolyard cruelty, just polished up for the grown-up world and now finely honed into small humiliations.

Friends from The Agnes Irwin School and Lake Forest College, Kitty and Elizabeth, are “mean girls” grown-up. They use their clique of friends and polished possessions to pick away at each other’s Social Standing. Sadly, their anger stemming from a boy they both liked in High School and neither married keeps them from seeing what is truly important in life.

Follow Elizabeth to afternoon tea and photo-ops. See if she chooses the right children’s names and the proper label to wear and display. Find out how she learns the difference between Jimmy Choo and Kate Spade, the language of nicknames, when it’s alright to brag about a bargain or wear costume jewelry, what to monogram (not toilet paper), who to idolize (Babe Paley) and what constitutes taste in music, nail polish.

Read about husbands who are an asset and the husbands who are a handicap. In the SC world, marriage and motherhood and a comfortable income are indispensable as a proper pedigree. For Elizabeth, the honeymoon was simply breathing space before the real work began.

Elizabeth strives to be a socialite but also something bigger. But what?

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I have sat on over 30+ charity committees.

Beth Dunn grew up and attended Etiquette school on Philadelphia’s Main Line. By the time she was 12, she’d learned that white gloves had nothing to do with the weather. At 18, she’d changed from a private girl’s school uniform into a debutante ball gown.

After college, (which included a semester in Zimbabwe) she worked in publicity and public relations representing Philadelphia and national clients.

As a married lady, she discovered that while ground rules for social “acceptance” may have changed since her school days, the ladies definitely hadn’t. Sick of cliques, cruelties and mean girls grown up, Beth Dunn was motivated to write about them.

A Philadelphia Junior Leaguer, awaiting membership in the D.A.R., serving on 20+ charity committee’s, she currently lives in Mays Landing, New Jersey with her husband and two young sons.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: It isn’t about New York City Society–but rather Philadelphia, the reader can escape into the world of Social Climbing.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: It’s fun!

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Women of all ages; helping professionals; and anyone interested in stories about relationships, dysfunctional families, and how an individual’s upbringing can inform who they become.

Q: What is the book about?
A: A story about how a person can connect to others in a meaningful and satisfying way, despite a tortured past and a tangled family history. In this tale, Amber Cushing, abused by her mother’s boyfriend, strives to overcome this history; propelled along on a path characterized by a whirlwind of wrong choices, she continues seeking answers and solutions, struggling to find love and acceptance.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: Some of the issues presented in this book came about because of my career as a social worker, helping abused children and young people overcome their tragic histories.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: I injected my own personal experiences into the story, transforming what might ordinarily be a simple chronicle of abuse into a tale of hope and redemption.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: Some of the peripheral characters in this tale are repeated in some of my other books, such as Miles to Go. My first published novel, An Accidental Life, introduces the character of Savannah Chacon, a former teen parent, who has transcended that history to become a promising college student; incidentally, she shares the boarding house where Amber Cushing lands, like a wounded bird.

Below are links to my home page and a couple of blogs; a link to Author’s Den, which features books and a blog; the link to My Space; and finally, a link to my GoodReads Author profile.

http://laurelrainsnowcreations.com/default.aspx

http://laurelrainsnowcreations.blogspot.com/

http://www.zimbio.com/member/laurelrainsnow

http://www.authorsden.com/laurelrainsnow

http://www.myspace.com/laurelrainsnow

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1185466.Laurel_Rain_Snow

And here is a link to an interview for COOL BOOK OF THE DAY.

http://www.coolbookoftheday.com/miles-to-go/

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: I wrote this book about my beloved sister because she is a unique woman and led such a fascinating life; I wrote it to appeal to adults and the mainstream market. It’s an epic love story/mystery/thriller that ––judging by reviews on Amazon.com––is appealing to men as well as women and more mature teens … people from all walks of life.

Q: What the book is about?
A: This story is part fiction (faction?), but based on the life of my beautiful older sister and her seven marriages. This is from the publisher’s description: ” … sixty-four years–1933 to 1997–of happiness and tragedy. Always searching for her first love and her childhood, the enchanting child/woman captivates many men along the way, each wealthier than the one before … each sending her scurrying back to her childhood home, 1106 Grand Boulevard, a trail of broken hearts in her wake.”

“1106 Grand Boulevard” is the story of passions that last a lifetime; of family love and betrayal; of spousal abuse and sadistic child abuse; a story of Billie Jean’s desperate search for happiness, self-worth, and maturity … a story of people needing people and people using people.”

Q: Why I am the best person to write this book?
A: Since I’ve always been a writer and am the sister of the main character in the book, I’m the only one who could do justice to her complex character … her exciting life.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?:
A: In most love stories the heroine is married only once; how unrealistic is that in today’s world? As award-winning author Frank Nappi said in his review: “The resiliency of Dravis’s heroine, Billie Jean, is indeed refreshing, wonderfully antithetical to the all too common saccharine, off-putting portrayal of many of fiction’s leading ladies.” Nappi is the author of the new sensational novel, The Legend of Mickey Tussler and Echoes from the Infantry.

Q: Is there anything else to know about this book?
A: The title of 1106 Grand Boulevard is the actual Ohio hometown address of the author and the main characters in the book. The cover photo is a picture of her late father, John D. Barger, at age 90, while the home viewed through the car window is 1106. Dravis took the photo when her father drove her and the book’s heroine past the home while they were visiting from California in the 1980s.

For more about 1106 Grand Boulevard and Dravis’s other novels, go to:
http://bettydravisauthor.googlepages.com/
http://tinyurl.com/2b3rko

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Women who like intelligent chick lit, and anyone interested in spirituality.

Q: What is the book about?
A: “If the spirit of a loving wife can’t nudge her husband in the right direction, who can?” So thinks 30-something Judith McBride, a Jewish control freak with an unlikely last name. When she dies in a medical mishap, she calls on her supernatural status to “rescue” her widowed spouse from the sexy clutches of their gold-digging, thrill-seeking blonde accountant, with surprising results.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I don’t believe that question is as germane to fiction as it is to nonfiction. After all, isn’t each novelist the best person to write his/her particular story? In my case, I can say that I am the perfect person to write a novel set in the afterlife and narrated by the spirit of a dead woman because I began with no preconceived notions. Jewish dogma contains very little about the afterlife because the religion’s focus is on what we do in our earthly lives. With Remote Control, I had the opportunity to create my idea of “heaven” and “hell” that simultaneously respects readers of any religion or no religion. Spirituality and religion are not necessarily the same thing.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: Remote Control is one of maybe a handful of published novels dealing with our spiritual life. Probably the best-known are literary novels Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Remote Control is in a category by itself because its thought-provoking issues are told in a humorous voice. The comic aspect of the story isn’t intended to satirize the concept of life after death; it simply addresses it in a more contemporary context.

Another distinguishing feature of Remote Control is the game I like to play with my readers. Both Remote Control and my historical novel Far Above Rubies have real, famous, historical figures included in the text but not mentioned by name. It’s fun to see if readers pick up on the clues written into the story. I also provide a discussion guide at the end of Remote Control to guide readers in their search. The book has one “puzzle” that I hadn’t planned on: a typographical error in a proper name that by its very existence contradicts the sentence’s meaning. It’s not nearly as complicated as it sounds, and it’s quite funny, once you find it.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: Although I categorize Remote Control as chick lit, don’t assume it’s all trash and no treasure. I like to call it “lit for the thinking chick” because behind the wise-cracking protagonist and often comedic situations lie evocative questions about life, death, mourning, and our very selves that every one of us eventually face. Humor and enlightenment aren’t mutually exclusive.

Remote Control is available through all the normal channels of book acquisition, and can be special ordered from any bookstore. To see if your local library has it, check their website or ask a librarian. Book clubs who order 5 or more books directly from publisher Echelon Press receive a 25% discount. I am happy to participate in book club discussions, whether by phone or in person. For more information, visit www.cynthiapolansky.com.

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Adults – Women and others interested in relationships.

Q: What is the book about?
A: An exploration of the enduring friendship between women who meet in college, participate in radical
politics, and then spend the next thirty years adjusting to life in the real world.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: Because I lived it. The story is loosely based on my time in Sacramento in the 70s, followed by years of “normal” life, with all that brought, including single parenthood and love issues. Also, I spent many years working in the child welfare system as a social worker, with some of these experiences featured in this book.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: It captures the radical politics of the seventies from the perspective of women, featuring the normal parenting issues against this backdrop of politics…And reveals how these experiences can help individuals transform themselves into fully functioning human beings.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: There are a few secrets within…like the artist who lived on a commune and lost her child to the child welfare system…And how, eventually, they were reunited.

http://laurelrainsnowcreations.com/default.aspx

http://laurelrainsnowcreations.blogspot.com/

http://www.zimbio.com/member/laurelrainsnow

http://www.myspace.com/laurelrainsnow

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Entrepreneurs, female business owners and professionals.

Q: What is the book about?
A: The book introduces a new and simple system for organizing contacts to reach goals quicker and easier. It’s based on the premise that you have an entire staff hiding in your address book (if you knew who they were).

Along with a step-by-step how-go guide, the book includes over 100 networking and marketing tips and resources, real examples and success stories, as well as a link to a site with free resources.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I’m a former Chamber of Commerce Executive Director and have been professionally networking (meaning I get paid to make business and professional connections for people) for the last six years.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: The book is different because it introduces a system for organizing your contacts, then shows you how to use the contacts to meet specific goals such as securing new clients/customers or putting into motion a marketing plan. It includes the “ideal e-mail campaign” which shows readers how to use a simple, but specific e-mail to generate leads to desired result.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: This the first mainstream book to promote Chambers of Commerce – an entire chapter shows readers how to use their Chamber to speed success. I introduce the model for the Ideal Network Club (action-oriented/results-driven) networking club designed exclusively as an income-producer for Chambers of Commerce.

Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Readers who love psychological thrillers that illuminate the domino effect of secrets within all families will be swept up by this story. Anyone with an interest in genealogy will enjoy the way in which the many branches of one family tree are introduced in their specific era and environment, from the present to 1800s England.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Tom Nelson is struggling after the death of his son at the hands of his wife Jane. While Jane sits in a Texas mental hospital for her part in the crime, prosecutors turn their focus to Tom, believing he knew Jane was in decline, and charge him with “failure to protect.” Enter attorney, Dave Frontella, who employs a radical defense strategy – one that lays the blame at the feet of Jane’s nature and nurture. To gather evidence about Jane’s forbears, Frontella hires a woman with the power of retrocognition – the ability to use a person’s belongings to re-create their past.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I passionately wanted to understand the days and moments leading up to a woman deciding to take the life of her child. My quest for answers and months of research helped me develop an understanding that the pivotal moment is not, in fact, a moment or a sudden snap, but a series of events and breakdowns leading up to this moment. I am also a mother. I don’t think I could have written this without the full understanding of the challenges of parenthood.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: If I met your grandfather, what would that tell me about your personality? If I observed a day in the life of your childhood, what would that tell me about how you make choices today? Jane, the character who committed this terrible crime in Janeology, is drawn from the perspective of her genealogy. To know her, we must also know her parents, her grandparents and her great-grandparents. And we also meet her on one critical day of her childhood. While there are wonderful non-fiction treatments of nature and nurture and genetic inheritance, Janeology is a unique fictional account exploring one family and its legacy of secrets.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: Janeology explores the idea that genes passed down through the generations impact who we are in countless ways; that nature and nurture are illuminated by the other. The reader is introduced to four generations of Jane’s family on both her maternal and paternal sides – from her English-born great-grandmother to her rough and tumble west Texas father. All the while, we watch as her husband – a man torn apart by still loving a woman he can no longer understand – grapples with putting the pieces of his life back together.

To read an excerpt or view the heart-stopping trailer, please visit www.karenharringtonbooks.com