Susan Shapiro



SPEED SHRINKING, a comic novel, will be coming out 2009!

See Sue on The Today Show
Watch Sue on Lisa Loeb's #1 Single
Listen to Sue Discuss Fix-Ups on Candace Bushnell Radio

Only as Good as Your Word Secrets
Lighting Up Five Men Who Broke My Heart Food for the Soul


Upcoming Events:
INSTANT-GRATIFICATION-TAKES-TOO-LONG
NEW PRIVATE WRITING SEMINARS
Write & Sell Your Essay In 6 Weeks
Tuesday nights Nov 11 - Dec 16
2 sections: 5:30-7:30/7:45-9:45
Contact: ProfSue123@aol.com
or phone 212-677-4712

SECRETS OF SELLING YOUR BOOK
Next Seminar Sun. January 11 from 2-8 pm
with guest star literary agent Molly Lyons
& Overlook book editor Aaron Schlecter
$175. For more info call Sue 212-677-4712
or email ProfSue123@aol.com
CHARITY BENEFIT READING & CELEBRATION
FOR BETWEEN THE COVERS
by Book Babes Margo Hammond & Ellen Heltzel
Friday night January 23 at 7:30 pm
at Greenwich Village Barnes & Noble
6th Avenue & 8th Street (free)

NEW SCHOOL 14-WEEK WINTER CLASSES
start again Monday nights January 26

WRITING ABOUT SEX & LOVE PANEL
Celebrating BEHIND THE BEDROOM DOOR
with editors Paula Derrow & Danielle Perez
agents Alexis Hurley & Ryan Harbage
and writers Valerie Frankel & Sue Shapiro
Friday February 13 at 7 pm
at the Columbus Circle Borders (free)



Biography:

Susan Shapiro is a Manhattan journalism professor who has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Nation, Salon.com, The Forward, Village Voice, People, More, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan. She's the nonfiction columnist for Writer's Digest, co-editor of the anthology "Food for the Soul," and author of the acclaimed books "Only as Good as Your Word," "Lighting Up," "Secrets of a Fix-Up Fanatic," and "Five Men Who Broke My Heart" which was optioned for a feature film. She's appeared on The Today Show, Dateline, Good Day New York, E! Entertainment and prime time on ABC and the Oxygen network. She and her husband, a TV/film writer, live in Greenwich Village where she's taught at NYU's Journalism School, the New School's MFA program, Holy Apostles, and Mediabistro.com. ProfSue123@aol.com is her direct email address.



For more info contact Susan Corcoran, Director of Publicity, at SCorcoran@randomhouse.com
(212) 782-9425


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Fix-Up Fanatic cover art by Mary Lynn Blasutta