My Works: Reviews, Excerpts, & Synopses***REVIEWS*** KIRKUS (starred) “A sweet contemporary love story with an old fashioned message” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “witty dialogue, a lean plot and a few terrific one-liners…slickly composed and smoothly engaging.” USA TODAY “represents the dark side of fidelity and family life. The book is suspenseful, the prose spare. Dip into 66 Laps and you may well feel compelled to race to the finish…” BALTIMORE SUN “beautifully written debut novel...profoundly challenges the wisdom of women returning to hearth and home to the exclusion of meaningful work.” N.P.R.: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED “A neatly made drama about the plight of modern marriage.” BOOKLIST “An enjoyable, quick read.” BOOKREPORTER.COM "Here's a book I'd like to see end up on Oprah's list: a revenge story that takes an evil twist and, in the process, makes short order of every question about marriage that contemporary feminists have about not only the institution, itself, but the people who enter into it. 66 LAPS...plays like a great movie." FAULKNER PRIZE - JUDGE'S SPEECH (John Dufresne) “...is about the new monogamy, the old infidelity, about the power we give to strangers and fragility of intimacy. It’s about dreams and nightmares, betrayal and seduction. The voice is engaging, the characters memorable and moving, the subject important. You can’t trust a woman in love Audrey tells us. Indeed." Heartless
--click title for synopsis, photos & credits--  Original Screenplay Revenue from this film financed a slate of six features for Santa Monica Pictures. Starring: Madchen Amick & Louise Fletcher. Welcome to Club Mom
Humor and truth about pregnancy and the first year of motherhood The Happy Helpful Grandma Guide
Paperback version of Club Grandma Wendy Bellissimo: Nesting
Lifestyle Inspirations for Your Growing Family - from Wendy Bellissimo, celebrity nursery designer. Exclusive line for Babys-R-Us stores "Welcome to the Club"
The Honeymoon's Over: True Stories of Love, Marriage and Divorce, Warner Books, February 2007 "I Hate Everybody"
Mommy Wars, Random House, March 2006 --anthology edited by Leslie Morgan Steiner A tongue-in-cheek essay about straddling the divide in the war between Stay-At-Home Moms and Working Moms as a Working-at-home Mom. Contributors include Jane Smiley & Susan Cheever Leslie's essay was lauded by Katie Couric on the "Today Show" and in Business Week in a Q & A with the editor. Other reviews appear in: Newsweek, Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, Parents, O, Elle, Self, & Child, & Parenting. |
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