Beth Kendrick | News and Appearances

May 1, 2006

Spring is going by fast this year. Really fast. Disconcertingly fast. But the upside is, my massive seasonal allergies will soon abate--I hope--and I’m turning in lots of new projects for next year. Amazon just put up a pre-order link for my next women’s fiction book, NEAERLYWEDS (November 2006), which is a big, juicy, holiday romp with lots of marital drama, in-law drama, and dog drama. Probably my favorite book yet! If you’ve ever spent a family Thanksgiving dodging passive-aggressive verbal bullets while drowning your sorrows in wine and chocolate cake and then accidentally burning the turkey, this is the book for you. (Not that *I* have ever done any of that. Nooo…)

If you need something to tide you over until fall, BenBella Books just released “Welcome to Wisteria Lane”, an essay anthology on “Desperate Housewives.” My essay, titled “Growing Up Wisteria,” is a tongue-in-cheek look at the children of the main characters; I predict what kind of adults these children are likely to be based on their mothers’ parenting style. See? I KNEW that psych degree would come in handy someday!

Oh! And thanks to everyone who’s emailed me about my new book for teens, “Life As a Poser” (if you haven’t read it yet, you can enter to win a copy on my contest page). It’s the first in “The 310” series for MTV Books, and I’m thrilled to announce that one lucky reader will get the chance to “appear” in the third 310 book (tentatively scheduled for March 2007). Yes, you can win a cameo alongside main characters Eva, Jacinda and Coelle. Fun! Go over to my sister website and enter today.

And if you haven’t gotten carpal-tunnel after all that contest-entering, please, please, I beg of you, click over to MySpace and befriend me. I just signed up (what can I say? I fear technology) and I have nobody. Flashbacks to the cafeteria in middle school.

Now stop monkeying around on the Internet and go outside and play. Don’t forget your Claritin.

xoxo,
Beth