My third book – and first novel – is now available and IT IS TOTALLY BITCHING. If you are looking for a summer beach read, look no further! Confessions of an Imposter Room Mom is here to make you cackle, giggle, and snort in public.

About the book: 

Elodie Jones did not have a conventional childhood. Her parents were acrobats in The Sweeney Sisters’ Dazzling Bigtop Extravaganza, and the closest thing Elodie had to preschool was a box of crayons and a clown named Chuckles. Now that her daughter Madison is starting preschool, Elodie just wants to blend in with the other parents and give Madison the normal childhood she never had. 

When Elodie volunteers to be room mom for Madison’s class, she assumes she will be planning holiday potlucks. Instead, she finds herself at the center of mama drama. There is a preschool thief, and Elodie is the prime suspect. The playground is on the verge of collapse; her college nemesis has a son in Madison’s class; and a swimsuit model wants to seduce her husband. Can Elodie survive the motherhood circus with her dignity intact? 

You can get the e-book of Confessions of an Imposter Room Mom now on Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Baker & Taylor, Scribd, Tolino, and Borrowbox. The paperback will also be available on Amazon soon, soon, soon! (Can you tell I’m effervescently excited about this?!)

Read Chapter One of Confessions of an Imposter Room Mom here.

Okay, now let’s hit the rewind button and go back to my first book. It’s a memoir called Adventures With Postpartum Depression but it should really be called Adventures With Postpartum Depression, Anxiety, OCD, Insomnia, Despair, Extreme Guilt, Intrusive Thoughts About Hurting The Baby And Feeling Completely Inept at the Whole Business Of Motherhood. That title, however, was never going to fit on the book cover unless I used a really, really, really small font.

There are a lot of excellent books about maternal mood disorders, but mine is different. It is raw, honest, poignant, vulnerable AND laugh out loud, please don’t pee your pants, funny. I couldn’t help myself. I tried to write a serious memoir about my experiences with postpartum depression. And to some extent, I succeeded. I am brutally honest about the thoughts I had about throwing my daughter, Pippa and taking my own life. I open up about my insecurities, shame and guilt. I let readers eavesdrop on my conversations with my psychologist. But even when I am reflecting on the darkness of my mental illness, I still find humor and joy. For anyone suffering from a maternal mood disorder, or any mental illness for that matter, I offer hope and inspiration. Readers will learn how an ordinary mom (that’s me!) triumphed over postpartum depression and let the experience transform her (me again!) into a better, stronger version of herself.

Adventures with Postpartum Depression is now available as an e-book and paperback on Amazon. It is also available as an e-book from other major vendors, e.g. Apple, Kobo, etc.

Last but not least, in October 2020, I created a snarky activity book about the abomination that was distance learning. In case it’s not completely obvious, this book is very different from my novel and memoir. All three are actually hilarious, assuming you share my sense of humor. (If you don’t share my sense of humor, then you are probably praying for my salvation right about now.) But the novel and memoir have words and more words (entire paragraphs and chapters and shit!) while the activity book has words, Bingo, mascots, games, merit badges, more words, dancing bears, and a picture hunt.

The Distance Learning Activity Book For Parents Just Barely Holding On To Their Last Shred Of Sanity was published on November 1, 2020.

This book is available as a paperback on Amazon (it just doesn’t work as an e-book). Hopefully, it will never, never, NEVER be relevant to our current lives and it will remain as a hilarious reminder of the darkness we endured.

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