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Slim to None
Jenny Gardiner
ASIN: B003K15N9E
Diversion Books
Release date: April 2010
Amazon Kindle
WINGING IT:
A Memoir of Caring for a Vengeful Parrot Who's Determined to
Kill Me
Jenny Gardiner
ISBN-10: 1439157618
ISBN-13: 978-1439157619
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Release date: March 2010
Amazon.com
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"Satisfying as a Thanksgiving dinner at Mom's... Jenny Gardiner's
heroine gives us a sarcastic but provocative look at our
love-hate relationship with food. You'll eat this up in one sitting.
—AD HUDLER, bestselling author of Househusband and Man of the House
Slim to None is the ultimate calorie-free comfort food for the soul.
Abbie Jennings' brave and often wickedly funny culinary journey
from chaos to contentment had me cheering for her all the way.
Jenny Gardiner knows the way to a reader's heart.
—LAURA BENEDICT, author of Isabella Moon
With a strong yet delightfully vulnerable voice, food critic Abbie
Jennings embarks on a soulful journey where her love for banana cream
pie and disdain for ill-fitting Spanx clash in hilarious and heartbreaking
ways. As her body balloons and her personal life crumbles, Abbie must face
the pain and secret fears she’s held inside for far too long. I cheered for her
the entire way. —Beth Hoffman, bestselling author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
"Jenny Gardiner has done it again - this fun, fast-paced book is a great
summer read." —Sarah Pekkanen, author of The Opposite of Me
"A fun, sassy read! A cross between Erma Bombeck and Candace Bushnell, reading Jenny Gardiner is like sinking your teeth into a big frosted chocolate cupcake...you just want more."
—Meg Cabot, author of Big Boned and Queen of Babble Gets Hitched
Food! Glorious food! Who doesn't love it? And what woman doesn't hate it, at least at some point, when the pounds are packing on and the jeans won't zipper without intervention from professional construction equipment.
We women have always had a love/hate relationship with food. Love? Probably from that first spoonful of pablum when we were a few months old. And hate? No doubt from the first day we encountered a copy of Vogue or Cosmo or any other women's magazine in which women were falsely portrayed as impossibly thin, impossibly beautiful and impossibly unlikely to fall prey to the vagaries of the dreaded calorie.
So imagine if food is, quite literally, your bread and butter. In order to put food on the table, you have to put food in your stomach.
That's the predicament my protagonist, Abbie Jennings faces in my new novel, Slim to None. Abbie is New York's premier food critic, a job she's enjoyed anonymously for ages, until her appearance is outed on Page Six of the New York Post, and everyone learns exactly what she looks like: a good bit, um, shall we say, zaftig. So large, in fact, that she's unable to simply attempt to disguise herself to continue going about her career as a food critic. And so she faces a crossroads: she's told by her editor to lose enough weight to continue undetected in her job, or she'll be cut loose. Awfully hard to swallow, when she's eaten to make a living, and now has to not eat in order to continue to make a living.
Let's face it, to some degree we're all a slave to food. Even animals are-what cranky creature isn't more compliant with a favorite treat? It comes down to what degree. And for Abbie, food is her sensory salvation-it's a hard thing to shun. But soon Abbie is delving deep into her past to figure out how it was that food became her best friend, and how to learn to love herself a little more, and that banana cream pie a little bit less.
I've published Slim to None in a non-traditional way this time. My literary agency, in response to enormous changes the publishing industry is undergoing right now, has launched a digital imprint, and I decided to publish Slim to None to piggyback with marketing/publicity they'll get with their debut launch. It's currently on exclusive with the Kindle electronic reader, but with a free Kindle app anyone with an iPhone, iPad, Mac computer, PC and other smart phones are able to download the book through Kindle. Soon the book will be available directly through iBooks, Fictionwise, and other electronic publishing sites for use with the Nook, the Sony e-reader, and other e-readers that are soon to be on the market.
It seems pretty likely that with the launch of the iPad (over 1 million sold in just 28 days), e-books are going to become much more commonly available over the next year or so. Price wars have already started, so I trust that the cost for an e-reader will invariably come down as well. I got my Kindle as a birthday gift last year and I have to say I absolutely love my e-reader. My daughter is addicted to reading on her iPad as well. It is so easy and compact, and with new books available essentially at the push of a button, how much simpler can it get? With the publishing industry seeing a dramatic reduction in sales, authors are looking for more efficient ways to get their books in front of their readers, and I think you'll be seeing more and more authors following suit. I decided I'd rather be on the front end of this trend than in the stampede that will follow.
So I hope you'll be able to acess Slim to None-I think you'll get a good laugh with it. And I also hope that you can pass this on to anyone you know who does have an e-reader, so that they can look into it as well!
Many thanks for you continued support!
Best,
Jen
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