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:
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

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY READING &
HOW TO REALLY GET PUBLISHED TALK

with Philly native, comedy writer Patty Marx
Wednesday January 21 at 5:30 pm FREE
Temple University Student Activities Center
1755 N. 13th Street (at Montgomery Street)

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)
BEHIND THE BEDROOM DOOR
Reading with Paula Derrow
Thursday February 19 at 8 pm
Happy Ending at 302 Broome St.

INSTANT-GRATIFICATION-TAKES-TOO-LONG
Five-week Private Essay Writing Workshops
Tuesday nights March 3 to March 31
Two Sections: 5:30-7:30 pm & 7:45-9:45
Meets in Greenwich Village - $500
Contact: ProfSue123@aol.com

SATURDAY ESSAY WRITING SEMINARS
April 18 & April 25 from 2-5 pm
Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street
in Greenwich Village NYC  $170
To Register call: 212-353-4195

SUMMER 2009 NEW SCHOOL CLASSES
Writing for NYC Newspapers & Magazines
starts  Monday night June 1 from  6-10 pm

FREE SHRINKS ARE AWAY READING
Debuting the novel SPEED SHRINKING
Tuesday night  August 4 at 7 pm at
McNally Jackson Booksellers in Soho
52 Prince Street (at Mulberry Street)



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