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This week's Mom Writers Talk Radio tour stop features Rachel Hamman, author of Bye-Bye Boardroom: Confessions of a New Breed of Stay-At-Home Moms.

Byebyeboardroom Now, obviously this is a topic very near and dear to my heart, so I was anxious to see what the book is about.

Summary:

Author Rachel Hamman takes a comical and candid look at the transition high-powered women take when they make the leap from corporate Americato carpool.   The author chronicles the growing trend of successful business women who are trading in their briefcases for diaper bags, after experiencing first hand the surprising changes it brought into her own life.

Bye-Bye Boardroom, written in diary format, provides insights into the hearts and minds of almost 30 women who left the comfort of corner offices for the chaotic and most challenging positions of their lives – becoming full-time, stay-at-home moms. Bye-Bye Boardroom enables women considering leaving a career to be full-time mothers to catch a glimpse of what is in store for them and how to cope with the change. Women who are stay-at-home moms (whether full or part time) will be entertained by the tales of other women like themselves and realize that they are not alone in this journey.

About the author:

Rachel lives in Orlando, Florida and raises two very busy kids.  In her former life, she spent 6 years as an Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch, where she advised clients on more than $250,000 million in investments. She also co-founded The Golden Rule Foundation, an in-school, character-building children’s charity. (see attached for additional details or visit: www.RachelHamman.com )

Sounds like a great companion to Domestically Challenged, don't you think? ;)

MWTR Blog Tour author...Jean Hanff Korelitz

I am really excited to also be a part of the Mom Writer's Talk Radio Blog Tour. MWTR is the weekly radio show I host with Paula Schmitt.

Cover1 This tour stop features author Jean Hanff Korelitz. Jean is the author of The White Rose, released in paperbook by Miramax Books.

About the book:

THE WHITE ROSE is set in

Manhattan

, where Marian Kahn has a full and comfortable life.  At 48, she is long married, living on Park Avenue, and a tenured professor of history at

Columbia

, not to mention a very successful author (with boxes of reader fan mail to prove it).  Yet she risks everything when she falls passionately in love with Oliver, the 20-something son of her oldest friend and the owner of a chic flower shop in the Village – The White Rose.  Their affair is crazy, and Marian knows it, but she can’t seem to find her way out of it, and she isn’t sure she wants to.

Enter Barton, Marian’s snobbish cousin, and Sophie, an heiress and a student in Marian’s department, whom he is engaged to marry.   It’s a truly unlikely match and one that Sophie begins to question when she meets Oliver, who personally delivers flowers to her door (ordered by Barton).  As the relationships between these four become increasingly entangled, the effects are both comic and tender, and the lesson – that love is seldom straightforward, but always a gift – is applicable to all.

Ever since she first saw Richard Strauss’s opera, Der Rosenkavalier, Korelitz has ruminated on its themes of love and the passage of time, themes which, she admits, only resonate more as she ages.  With THE WHITE ROSE she has cleverly carried the opera’s preoccupations forward to a modern day setting, and produced a provocative, gratifying, and entertaining novel for our times.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jean Hanff Korelitz is a novelist who lives in

Princeton

,

N.J.

, with her husband, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, and their children.

ABOUT THE BOOK

THE WHITE ROSE

By Jean Hanff Korelitz

A

Miramax Books

Trade Paperback

Publication Date:

January 18, 2006

ISBN: 1-4013-35986-8

Price: $13.95