Today I am please to spotlight Pretty Much Screwed by Jenna McCarthy!
- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Berkley (July 7, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0425280683
- ISBN-13: 978-0425280683
- Amazon Link
“I don’t love you anymore.”
For Charlotte Crawford, the worst part about being dumped after twenty years of marriage is that her husband, Jack, doesn’t want another woman; he just doesn’t want her.
Forty-two and clueless, Charlotte is a fish out of water in a dating pool teeming with losers. Just when she thinks she’s finally put her failed marriage behind her, it comes back to bite her in the ass…hard. Without warning, Charlotte finds herself staring down the barrel of a future she wouldn’t (she would totally) wish on her worst enemy.
Engaging, fearless, and relentlessly funny, Pretty Much Screwed is a story of love, loss, friendship, forgiveness, turtledoves, taxidermy, and one hilariously ill-placed tick.
*Celia Rivenbark, New York Times Bestselling Author
Raves for Pretty Much Screwed
"A brilliant blend of smart storytelling and sidesplitting humor."—Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One for the Money
"Jenna McCarthy takes what could have been a standard chick lit formula—heroine gets dumped, commiserates with her BFF, ventures back into the dating jungle, finds love after a series of complications—and breathes new life into it by giving it her own smart-mouthed-yet-utterly-sweet spin. Sure, her two memoirs were hilarious, but with Pretty Much Screwed, her first novel, she proves she's a first-rate storyteller too. More please!"—Jane Heller, bestselling author of Princess Charming
I’ve been writing for a long time.
I submitted my first short story to Highlights magazine in 1977.
I never got a reply.
In high school I wrote a lot of really bad poetry. Mercifully, I didn’t save any of it.
The first thing I ever had published was an essay in my college newspaper. The typesetter misspelled the word "sing" as "sign" in the last line and the whole thing made no sense whatsoever.
After graduation I got a job writing copy for a big advertising agency. I would have stayed there forever if I hadn’t gotten laid off on my twenty-fifth birthday. I grabbed a stapler and some sticky notes before I was escorted out of the building by a police officer.
I started writing fabulous articles and submitting them to all of the Fancy New York City Magazines (FNYCMs). None of them were ever published, although I did get one really nice, hand-written rejection letter.
One day, a FNYCM Editor offered me a job. I was so excited that I took it without knowing the salary. A few years later, I moved to another FNYCM. And then another. Dozens more asked me to write articles in exchange for actual money. I moved to California, wrote a book, had some babies, and wrote several more books. I gave a TED talk, flipped a house on TV and learned how to play tennis. Right now I’m trying to give up processed food and teach myself how to write a screenplay. At the same time. It’s not easy.
Someday I’d like to start a petition to have the words mauve and moist removed from the English language.
I don’t like to brag, but I’m the luckiest person I know. I’m married to my best friend, I work in my pajamas and I have two beautiful, healthy, hilarious daughters. I like cats and sparkly things and laughing until my sides hurt. And hats. I really like hats.
Oh, and I’m not Jenny McCarthy. But you knew that, right?
http://www.jennamccarthy.com/
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Jenna is also the author of I'v'e Still Got It!
I’ve Still Got It… I Just Can’t Remember Where I Put It: Awkwardly True Tales from the Far Side of Forty
“Welcome to Middle Age! After you check your functioning internal thermostat and razor-sharp memory at the door, you might want to pour yourself a nice, stiff drink…”
Tackling everything from cosmetic surgery and financial panic to skinny jeans and the meaning of life, I’VE STILL GOT IT is a middle age manifesto filled with hilarious misadventures, humiliating confessions and occasional (hot) flashes of genius.
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