Authors Out Loud presents Melissa Ford, author of Life From Scratch April 7, 2011

Sip a cocktail, enjoy a girls’ night out and meet the newest chick lit sensation Melissa Ford!

Her life's a mess. And so is her kitchen.
Divorced, heartbroken and living alone in a tiny New York apartment, Rachel Goldman realizes she doesn't even know how to cook the simplest meal for herself. Can learning to fry an egg help her understand where her life went wrong? She dives into the culinary basics. Then she launches a blog to vent her misery about life, love and her goal of an unburnt casserole.To her amazement, the blog's a hit. She becomes a minor celebrity. Next, a sexy Spaniard enters her life. Will her souffles stop falling? Will she finally forget about the husband she still loves? And how can she explain to her readers that she still hasn't learned how to cook up a happy life from scratch?
Melissa Ford, amateur chef and professional blogger, completed her MFA at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is a contributing editor at BlogHer, the online women’s network that reaches 15 million women each month. She is also the author of the non-fiction book, Navigating the Land of If (Seal Press), a guide to infertility. Her award-winning personal blog, Stirrup Queens, is read by over 15,000 visitors each week, and The Wall Street Journal named her one of the top ten “mommybloggers” on the Web.

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