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Happy New Year! We hope you’ve been creating reasonable resolutions and sticking to them. No more vowing never to eat chocolate again. Instead, allow yourself to savor a nibble as a Friday evening treat. Whatever your goals, don’t overdo them. Remember, you don’t want to add more stress, you want to relieve it!
Over the past several months, we’ve been busy with the release and promotion of our new book, The Frantic Woman’s Guide to Life: A Year’s Worth of Hints, Tips, and Tricks (Warner Books, January 2004). The book has received great reviews from Booklist and Library Journal and has gained national attention in such publications as USA Today, Writer’s Digest Magazine, and Complete Woman. And look for us in the March issue of Real Simple Magazine (on newsstands mid-February).
We’ve been interviewed for local television shows (our NBC affiliate, KDKA-TV; our public television station, WQED; a local cable access channel, Adelphia), in addition to appearing in local newspapers and magazines, and presenting at a couple of crowded, sell-out book signings. We have two online chats scheduled in January at women-together.com and power-surge.com and hopefully much, much more. Thanks so much to all who have helped us along the way and to all those interested frantic women who have already told us how much they value the book.
To give you a taste of what The Frantic Woman’s Guide to Life has to offer, here’s a look at the cover and a brief excerpt.
 The Frantic Woman’s Guide to Life: A Year’s Worth of Hints, Tips, and Tricks
by Mary Jo Rulnick and Judith Burnett Schneider
Simple Ways to Organize Your Family, Home, and Life—And Still Have Time for You!
Who’s that woman in your neighborhood whose clothes hang neatly in the closet, whose kids are never late, whose income taxes are done in February, and whose holiday gifts are bought by October? It could be you! But when you’re juggling a family, home, and career, you may struggle just to complete daily chores-even before seasonal and special projects turn the pressure up to a boil.
Frantic women everywhere, here’s good news! Do-it-yourself expert Mary Jo Rulnick and organizing genius Judith Burnett Schneider have come to the rescue. Better than a 25-hour day, their compilation offers a full year’s worth of amazing, timesaving tips and efficiency secrets that can eliminate clutter, turn your family into a cleaning team, organize your life month-by-month, and even find ways to save you money. From financial planning to redecorating your kitchen, you’ll accomplish more than you ever dreamed possible-and still have time to smell the roses and give your kids an extra hug.
Cleaning, Cooking, Taxes, Gardening, Interior Decorating, Car Care, Child Care, College Planning, Romance...
It’s All Here!
The Frantic Woman’s Guide to Life
Don’t miss these time-, money-, and sanity-savers...
- The fifteen-minute pick-up: the house stays neat and the family works together
- The best way to handle crammed storage spaces...and decide what stays and what goes
- Using dryer sheets to freshen up more than the laundry
- Professional organizing tips for a kitchen that works...and the best veggie drawer liner ever
- Spring cleaning? One room at a time shortcuts to ease the drudgery
- Summer child-care options you may have overlooked...or just never thought of
- Valentine...shmalentine. Eight ways to put the fun back into your love life. The passion will follow...
- Ways to chill out: learn what, when, and how to freeze everything from potato chips to fine chocolates
- Eight files to simplify your record-keeping so you'll never have to hunt down documents again
- The sports mom survival kit...and why you should always carry garbage bags in your car trunk
- Recipe for the Frantic Woman’s Cocktail...a relaxing libation to celebrate a job well done
The Frantic Woman’s Guide to Life
Remember: Life can’t be predicted...but it can be planned!
We’re currently working on a new Frantic Woman Newsletter so stay tuned for more details.
Best,
Mary Jo & Judith
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