SHALLA Q&A with Chick Lit Author Lauren Baratz-Logsted

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The ShalladeGuzman Writers Group, a non-profit, completely-free writer’s group, is pleased to announce our online Q&A with chick lit author and freelance editor, Lauren Baratz-Logsted, on July 12, 2005.

WORKSHOP: Online Q&A (Ask your questions and get answers)

Moderator: Shalla de Guzman
www.shalladeguzman.com

SHALLA Q&A Description: Ask our featured chick lit author and freelance editor Lauren Baratz-Logsted and get answers. Write comedy, chick lit? Get tips. Like to know about Red Dress Ink? Ask Lauren.

Who’s Lauren Baratz-Logsted?

Lauren Baratz-Logsted worked as a buyer and seller for an independent bookstore in Westport, CT, for 11 years before leaving in 1994 to take a chance on herself as a novelist. Over the next eight years, as she waited for her writing ship to come in, she paid the mortgage by taking jobs as a reviewer (she reviewed 292 books for Publishers Weekly), a freelance editor (she edited nealy 100 books, one of which was a finalist for a small-press book award at BEA in 1998 and one of which she got the authors a two-day gig on Good Morning America), a freelance writer (she wrote many reader's companions for publishers before they became common and publishers started going in-house for that kind of work), a sort-of librarian (Bethel Public Library created a job where she led monthly book discussions, arranged adult programming including authors' visits and led a biweekly writing workshop, all for four years), and a window-washer (she's arguably the only person who ever hosted a signing party for the late Robert Ludlum and washed his windows).

In 2002, Red Dress Ink called with the offer of a two-book contract, the first book of which was THE THIN PINK LINE, a dark comedy set in London about a woman who fakes an entire pregnancy. Before that book was even published, RDI offered her a subsequent three-book contract. Her second novel, inspired by popular demand, was a sequel, CROSSING THE LINE. Her third book, A LITTLE CHANGE OF FACE, about an attractive CT librarian who alters her looks for the worse, was published on June 28, 2005. Her fourth, HOW NANCY DREW SAVED MY LIFE, will be published in July 2006. Lauren is keeping the world in suspense about Book 5. Lauren also has an essay in the forthcoming collection of stories and essays, FLIRTING WITH PRIDE & PREJUDICE, which will be published by BenBella Books on Sept 1 and has been edited by Jennifer Crusie.

Lauren lives in Danbury, CT, with her husband, five-year-old daughter and fifteen-year-old niece. She writes full time.


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Yours truly,

Cynthia Alvarez
SHALLA Q&A Assistant
ca93335@yahoo.com