Worse, the woman was oddly hunched over, contorted in a pose suggesting that the only mystery she was interested in solving was where to find the nearest toilet. The book was about a new mom feeling desperately out of place in the suburbs, struggling to accept her body with twenty pounds of unsheddable baby weight (at one point in the story, my protagonist, Kate Klein, jokes that when the kids turn five, it’s no longer baby weight, it’s just weight.) The cover, however, featured a supermodel-sized woman, from the neck down, because no faces. Until I found out that my publisher hadn’t purchased the exclusive rights to the image, and that the very same feet, in the same strappy shoes (in a different color palette) had also been used on the cover of a book entitled Best Fetish Erotica.īut then came Goodnight Nobody in 2006. The feet both appear to belong to women of the same size, even though the sisters in the story aren’t the same size at all… but, just as in the dark all cats are gray, from the ankle down, all women look sort of the same. For that cover, my publisher chose an image of two pairs of feet, in pastel-tinted strappy high-heeled shoes. The legs weren’t especially large, but they weren’t exactly skinny, either. You could just make out manicured toenails in the foreground, and a piece of cheesecake on a plate off to the side. That cover showed a pair of crossed legs, on a bed, with a dreamy blue background. Things got off to a promising start with Good in Bed, my 2001 debut.

'Weiner brings her trademark wit and empathy to this lively story.In the twenty-plus years of my career, publishing has changed. 'An absorbing read, and, for all its spot-on social commentary, a serious book at heart.' -Philadelphia Inquirer Praise for Jennifer Weiner's Then Came You: Set against the fascinating backdrop of Los Angeles show business culture, with an insider's ear and eye for writer's rooms, bad behavior backstage and set politics, Jennifer Weiner's new novel is a rollicking ride on the Hollywood rollercoaster, and a heartfelt story about what it's like for a young woman to love, and lose, in the land where dreams come true.

But her dreams of Hollywood happiness are threatened by demanding actors, number-crunching executives, an unrequited crush on a boss, and her grandmother's impending nuptials. Four years later, she's hit the jackpot when she gets The Call: the sitcom she wrote, The Next Big Thing, has gotten the green light, and Ruthie's going to be the show-runner. Īt twenty-three, Ruth Saunders headed west with her seventy-year-old grandma in tow, hoping to be hired as a television writer.

From the bestselling author of Good in Bed, In Her Shoesand the forthcoming Who Do You Lovecomes a Hollywood rollercoaster.

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