http://wendywalkerbooks.com Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:53:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yeah. Social Lives was just listed as a last minute gift on the Recessionista! Hope everyone has a great holiday. http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2009/12/social-lives-a-last-minute-gift/ If you are interested in a review of Social Lives, I think this one is awesome. But that's just me :) Working Girl Reviews http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2009/11/new-review/ My new novel, Social Lives, covers a variety of issues affecting super-affluent communities. I've written about them in my blog and elsewhere, but I have to report some disturbing new information I've been learning from my book tour on the issue of teenage sexuality. As a writer, this has been ... http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2009/11/disturbing-things-im-learning-from-my-book-tour/ Okay, here is a shameless plug for one of my very talented Power Moms Contributors! Diane Helbig is very knowledgeable and she has now put her secrets into an awesome book about building a small business. Having just spoken to a large group of women entrepreneurs about these topics, I am ... http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2009/11/fellow-power-mom-diane-helbig/ In just over a week on October 15th, I will be addressing 200 women at the Women TIES retreat in Skaneateles, NY. Women TIES. I have to admit right here and now that I am more than a little daunted at the thought of giving advice to so many women ... http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2009/10/speaking-at-women-ties/ This is not at all how I envisioned things would go down if (big IF) I ever got a film deal together. I was sitting in the hallway of a Holiday Express in my pajamas. My three boys, who were wired from sundaes at Friendly's, were torturing my 24-year-old brother ... http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2009/09/twilight-producer-packaging-film-deal-for-social-lives/ Listen to Wendy live this Thursday, Sept. 10th at 5pm on WICC600 radio http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2009/09/300/ In my last blog, I wrote about the "recession lit" angle of my new novel, Social Lives, which is coming out Tuesday. The issue of what a woman does when she has spent her prime years working for her family, only to have her husband leave them in ruin, is ... http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2009/08/social-lives-issue-2-hooking-up/ The New York Times just published an article on the trend of women writers to integrate the recent economic downturn into their plots. I was thrilled to be one of the writers discussed in that article NYT/Social Lives, and it occurred to me that my readers might enjoy some thoughts ... http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2009/08/the-new-york-times-and-social-lives/ RAnn writes a book blog for This That and the Other Thing at http://rannthisthat.blogspot.com/ Here is my interview with RAnn! Q: How did you become a book review blogger? A:  I’ve been blogging since 2005, but always had trouble thinking of topics about which to write.  I started discovering book blogs and eventually I ... http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2009/08/book-blogger-interview-with-this-that-and-the-other-thing/