Synopses & Reviews
It's not just another midnight.... Celebrate the start of something new with
In One Year and Out the Other
...a sparkling New Year's Eve story collection by today's rising fiction stars!
Cara Lockwood puts self-improvement to the test with 528 rules to live by -- not least of which is "Do not sleep with married men" -- in "Resolved: A New Year's Resolution List"...
Pamela Redmond Satran instructs a single mom in the fine art of partying like the boys (have lots of sex, don't worry that you're too fat) in "How to Start the New Year Like a Guy"...
Eileen Rendahl shows a twentysomething why there's more to life than waiting by the phone for a New Year's date in "Expecting a Call"...
Megan McAndrew seizes the day -- or just a very special one-night stand -- for a single food stylist
and more great tales from
Kathleen O'Reilly, Beth Kendrick, Diane Stingley, Tracy McArdle, and Libby Street
Synopsis
An effervescent compilation of romantic short stories set against the backdrop of the New Year's Eve celebration features Cara Lockwood's "Resolved: A New Year's Resolution List," as well as other works by Pamela Redmond Satran, Eileen Rendahl, Megan McAndrew, Kathleen O'Reilly, Beth Kendrick, Diane Stingley, Tracy McArdle, and Libby Street. Reprint.
About the Author
Cara Lockwood is also the author of
I Do (But I Don't), which was made into a Lifetime movie, as well as
Pink Slip Party and
Dixieland Sushi, and
Every Demon Has His Day, all available from Downtown Press. She was born in Dallas, Texas, and earned a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked as a journalist in Austin, and is now married and living in Chicago. Her husband is not a rock star, but he does play the guitar -- poorly.
Megan McAndrew is herself the daughter of expatriates. She grew up in France, Spain and Belgium before attending college in the United States. She worked in Warsaw, Poland, as a representative for the Financial Services Volunteer Corps. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her teenage son. Eileen Rendahl is the author of the Downtown Press novels Balancing in High Heels and Do Me, Do My Roots, which was nominated for a RITA Award. Her short fiction appears in the New Year's story collection In One Year and Out the Other. She lives near her tight-knit family in California. Diane Stingley lives in North Carolina. Her first novel, Dress You Up in My Love, is also available from Downtown Press. Libby Street is the pseudonym for the writing team of Sarah Bushweller and Emily S. Morris.
Sarah and Emily met on Liberty Drive in Dover, Delaware, at the age of four and have been best friends ever since. Twenty years later, they began writing together via email and telephone -- just trying to make each other laugh.
They both live in tiny little apartments in Manhattan, where they're working on Libby Street's second novel.