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Bookplates! Since I won’t be doing a formal tour this time around, I’m sending out even more bookplates to your favorite bookstores so that you can get signed copies of THE LIZ TAYLOR RING! These beauties are going out the door- preorder today!

💎 Bethany Beach Books, Bethany Beach, DE (302) 539-2522 @bethanybeachbooks
💎 Mitchell’s Book Corner & Nantucket Bookworks, Nantucket, MA (508) 228-1080 @nantucketbooks
💎 Browseabout Books, Rehoboth Beach, DE (302) 226-2665 @browseaboutbooks
💎The Bookmark Shoppe, Brooklyn, NY (718) 833-5115 @thebookmarkshoppe
💎Sparta Books, Sparta, NJ (973) 729-6200 @spartabooks
💎East End Books Ptown, Provincetown, MA (508) 413-9059 @eastendbooksptown
💎Thunder Road Books, Spring Lake, NJ (973) 436-0914 @thunderroadbooks
💎 Stone Harbor Book Shop, Stone Harbor, NJ @stoneharborbookshop (609) 368-4393
💎 FoxTale Book Shoppe, Woodstock, GA (770) 516-9989 @foxtale_book_shoppe
💎 Ferguson Books & More! Grand Forks, ND (701) 738-8025 @fergusonbooks
💎Booktowne, Manasquan, NJ @booktowne (732) 722-7255
💎 Bookmarks, Winston-Salem, NC @bookmarksnc (336) 747-1471
💎 Bookish Cedar Creek, Malakoff, TX (214) 797-7669
💎 An Unlikely Story, Plainville, MA (508) 699-0244
💎 Island Books, Mercer Island, WA (206) 232-6920
💎 Page 1 Books, Evanston, IL (847) 425-0130
💎 Page 158 Books, Wake Forest, NC (919) 435-1843
💎 Finley’s Fiction, Shelter Island Heights, NY (203) 650-7616
💎 Excelsior Bay Books, Excelsior, MN (952) 401-0932
💎Blue Willow Bookshop, Houston, TX (281) 497-8675
💎A Novel Idea, Philadelphia, PA (267) 764-1202
💎Park Road Books, Charlotte, NC (704) 525-9239
💎 An Unlikely Story, Plainville, MA (508) 699-0244
💎 One More Page Books, Arlington, VA (703) 300-9746
💎Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT (860) 536-3795
💎 BookHampton, East Hampton, NY (631) 324-4939
💎 Page 1 Books, Evanston, IL (847) 425-0130
💎 The Bookshelf, Thomasville, GA (229) 228-7767
💎Barnes and Noble, Los Angeles, CA (323) 525-0270
💎Barnes and Noble, Warwick, RI (401) 826-8885
💎Barnes and Noble, Boca Raton, FL (561) 750-2134
💎Magic City Books, Tulsa, OK (918) 602-4452
💎Kelly’s Collections, Brooklyn, NY
💎RJ Julia, Madison, CT (203) 245-3959
💎Nicola’s Books, Ann Arbor, MI (734) 662-0600
💎Valley Bookseller, Stillwater, MN (651) 430-3385

Hoping that you and yours are safe and sound during this difficult time. Every day brings a new challenge in our family, but I'm writing with some lovely news!

BOOKCLUBBISH MAY BOOK CLUB PICK!
The Grace Kelly Dress has been chosen as BookClubbish's May Book Club pick:

They have tons of great content for book clubs if you click here. (Including a wonderful recipe for vanilla cake! I'm not the only one carb loading during quarantine, am I? AM I?!)

And the best part? I'll be going LIVE with BookClubbish on May 26th. Stay tuned for details on how to stream this event.

FIND ME ON BOOKBUB!
Are you on BookBub? Follow me there:

Wondering what BookBub is? It's a great site for book lovers (so, YOU!) that offers a weekly email with book discounts that you don't want to miss.

IS YOUR BOOK CLUB READING THE GRACE KELLY DRESS?
And for those of you in book clubs, if you choose THE GRACE KELLY DRESS as your book club pick, I'd be happy to virtually visit your club in a Zoom or Skype chat! Just shoot me an email and we can set it up! If you're camera shy, just go here: () for some great book club content, including discussion questions.

Thank you for reading!
Brenda

I hope that you and yours have been staying safe during this most uncertain time.

I'm writing to you with some great news: the e-book version of The Grace Kelly Dress is now on sale! It's priced at $4.99 across all e-book platforms, US and Canada, from Sunday, April 12 through Sunday, April 19!

If you've been wanting to buy the book and haven't yet done so, this week is a great time to pick up an e-Book! You can get it wherever you usually buy e-books.

As many of you may have seen on social media, the remainder of my book tour has been canceled. But not to worry: we're bringing the book tour online! I'll be doing a Zoom book talk with Syosset Public Library! Info below:

Wednesday, April 15th, 2020, 3pm
Book talk over Zoom
Syosset Public Library
Meeting URL:
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Thank you for reading!
Brenda

Ten years. It’s been ten years since my first novel came out. In the time since Scot on the Rocks first debuted, I got married, I had two kids, I moved out to the suburbs. I bought a car, I bought a house, I created an entirely new life.

When I signed my first publishing contract with Red Dress Ink/ Harlequin, I was a single girl living in Manhattan. Now, on the ten year anniversary of that first book, I’m a married mother of two, and I'm re-releasing it on my own. There’s something so surreal about re-issuing my first novel, the novel that started it all, and I’m happy to be sharing that with all of you.

In honor of the forthcoming launch of THE DINNER PARTY (April 12th!), my fabulous publisher, St. Martin's, is offering a great deal on my novel RECIPE FOR A HAPPY LIFE!

It's just $1.99 over all e-book platforms, so grab your copy today:

Kindle:
Nook:
iBooks:
Kobo:

xx,
brenda

Ah, Spring. The temperature's warming up and there's nothing better than reading a good book outside. Unless, of course, it's Spring showers, in which case there's nothing better than curling up with a good book while you stay dry inside.

PopSugar has asked me to pick the best must-reads for this Spring. Let the pre-ordering begin!



xo,
brenda


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I'm so pleased to announce that my fourth novel, ���ٴǻ岹��!

It's available from all of your favorite retailers:

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It's the story of a woman who inadvertently becomes the symbol for all things anti-love in Manhattan. Still not sold? 

Read the first chapter of the book here:


THE LONELY HEARTS CLUBby Brenda Janowitz

Chapter One: Money for Nothing
“Jo, you’re fired,�� he says. Just like that. Fired. And I’m utterly shocked. I know, no one ever expects to be fired, but I really�徱���’t see this coming. My mouth is wide open as I stare back at him.             “Fired?�� is all I can choke out. The room begins to spin. That may be because I was out until sunrise last night drinking vodka tonics at an underground club in Williamsburg, but I’m pretty sure that it’s the news that’s doing it to me, not the hangover.            “Yes. I’m sorry, Jo, but it’s not working out here,�� he says. His skin is gleaming when he says it. His skin always gleams. He’s a dermatologist, so it has to gleam in order for him to stay in business. My skin doesn’t ever gleam. At the very most, it shines and turns red when I get hot or embarrassed. I feel it beginning to shine and my hand immediately flies to my cheek, which, of course, only makes it get hotter. We are in his office when he tells me and he is sitting at his desk, his head framed by his many diplomas and awards that are hung on the wall behind him. They are, as they are always, shining brightly as if they’d been dusted and cleaned that very morning. I look at the picture he keeps framed at the edge of his desk—a photograph of his family taken at a New Year’s Eve party, framed in a sterling-silver picture frame that his wife lovingly picked out for their thirtieth wedding anniversary—and then look back up at him.             “You can’t fire me,�� I say, which I wholeheartedly believe. I really �徱���’t think that he ever would or could fire me.            “I can,�� he says, “and I am.�� He begins to toy with one of the pens sitting on his desk.             “I’m your best employee!�� I plead.            “You wore a ‘Save CBGBs�� T-shirt to work,�� he says.            “CBGBs was a New York institution,�� I say. He gives me a blank stare. I shrug in response. Is it my fault that this man has no sense of culture? Of history? “What does it matter what I wear under my assistant’s coat anyway?”          �� “You know the dress code—scrubs or business casual,�� he says.             “Jeans and a concert tee is business casual!”          �� “People can see the prints on your T-shirts right through the fabric,�� he says. “And sometimes you wear ones with dirty words on them,�� he continues, whispering the ”dirty words�� part as if his grandmother is somehow listening from up above and would be appalled by this particular bit of information.             “Like what?�� I ask. Watching him squirm is kind of fun.            “You know which one,�� he says. And then, in barely a whisper, “Free Pussy Riot.”          �� “That’s a band,�� I say, “not a dirty word.�� You’d think a doctor would have no problem saying the word “pussy�� out loud.“Jo, it’s not just the T-shirts. You’ve called in the wrong prescriptions for my patients more times than I’d like to admit.”          �� “Some of those drugs have very complicated names,�� I say in my own defense. And for the record, they do.            “That doesn’t mean you can give a patient a more pronounceable drug without consulting me first.”          �� “Then maybe you and your colleagues should start prescribingmore pronounceable drugs,�� I argue. He furrows his brow in response. “But I’m your favorite employee!�� I plead.            “You balanced the company checkbook wrong the last three out of four quarters.”“You know that I’m not an accountant.�� When he hired me for the job two years ago, I knew that there would be some accounting involved. What I hadn’t realized at the time was that I would have to be quite so specific with the numbers. Which is a challenge for me, seeing as I’m really more of a right-brain kind of person.“But you know how to balance your own checkbook, don’t you?�� he says. For the record, I don’t.“Of course I know how to balance my own checkbook,�� I say and laugh, as if to say, “Doesn’t everybody?�� “A business checkbook is much, much different than a personal checkbook,�� I explain. For the record, it’s not. “I’m your most loyal employee,�� I say. My last resort. I find myself alternating between staring into his solid gold, monogrammed Tiffany belt buckle and his shellacked black hair, because I can’t meet his eyes.            “This is difficult for me, too, you know,�� he says, even though I know that it’s not. “Do you realize how embarrassing this is going to be for me?�� I say. Manipulative, I know, but it’s not exactly like I have anything left in my arsenal.“I thought you don’t get embarrassed,�� he replies, looking into my eyes, challenging me.“I don’t,�� I say, frowning like a little girl who hasn’t gotten the piece of candy that she wanted.                   “Don’t take this personally, Pumpkin.��
            “You can’t call me Pumpkin when you’re firing me, Daddy.��

We're always trying to save our kids, but sometimes our kids are the ones who save us.I'm over on the New York Times Motherlode today talking about the fire that made me too scared to cook and how my son helped me to learn again. One grilled cheese at a time. 

When I first started writing,  was my bible. I gobbled every issue up. I couldn't get enough. The tips were always so insightful. The articles were so encouraging. I think I learned as much from the pages of Writer's Digest as I did in my writing classes.
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So, it's a huge thrill for me today because I've got an essay up on WritersDigest.com. If you're writing a novel, or if you think you've got a novel inside of you (somewhere in there!), I hope you'll take a peek.

Well, my Sunday morning just got a little more exciting.  I'm so, so happy to report my HUGE news: Amazon has selected my first two novels, �����Ի���, as their Kindle daily deal today! Both books are on sale for 99 cents-- TODAY ONLY!
If you haven't read them, today is a great day to buy. For 99 cents, you can't go wrong! And if you've already read them, today is a great day to give a book as a gift to a friend.You can buy your copies here:


I'd love your help in spreading the word today. Anyone who forwards this post to 5 friends gets a free digital copy of my short story, . (Just don't forget to cc me on the email!)
As always, thank you for reading! I first published SCOT back in 2007, and I'm just as grateful now for the love and support you've all shown me as I was then.