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Congratulations to my bloggy pal Karen Burns over at Working Girl!

Her book, The Amazing Adventures of Working Girl: Real life career advice you can actually use is due out in March 2009 but is already available for pre-order on Amazon, for the low, low introductory price of only ten bucks for a nice hardback.  

That’s a third off the regular price.  So pre-order your copy now!

See, pre-ordering is a great way to buy books: publishers want to goose the numbers (and gauge demand) up front, so they offer discounts on pre-orders, and then raise the prices again  closer to publication time.   

For more about Karen’s Fab Book, you can go right here and read about it on her website!

Whist led to bridge-whist, which led to auction bridge, which led to contract bridge, which led, according to bridge historian Jack Olsen, to murder, divorce, suicide, mayhem, and other social evils.

- Maggy Simony, The Bridge Table, forthcoming

Since some of you have asked:  Cyn Mobley and I have been helping an 88 year old woman in Florida who is writing about the history of “ladies bridge clubs” (along with the gender food menus they created) from the 20’s to the 60’s. There are indeed murders, scandals, revolts — and also recipes. It’s quite funny. Would make a terrific play, actually…

The author plans to publish in early 2009, and I promised her I’d give her coverage on my blog.   Stay tuned!