The Break-Up Diet
After getting thrown from the happily-ever-after horse, Annette began keeping a diary, trying to get her emotional angst sorted and properly logged like a good OCD girl. The idea for turning her writings into a book was a suggestion from one of her friends.
Choosing the title was easy. Annette was obviously on The Break-Up Diet. What other diet would allow her to eat jar after jar of hot fudge topping, consume vast amounts of chocolate in any and all forms, and actually lose weight?
When she began chronicling her adventures, Annette wasn't sure where or how it would end. She hoped it wouldn't become a 900-page collection of disastrous dating stories. Though, she could probably write that book too.
Annette wondered who would want to read a story about a 30-something single mother and aspiring writer who was working as a topless dancer, searching for Prince Charming, and trying to balance her dreams and her day-to-day life as Supermom. Yes, it was her life, but was it interesting enough?
She knew the book could find an audience with modern women's fiction readers, but Annette wanted to make sure they knew her story wasn't fiction. Real life is always more absurd and more magical.
Annette dedicates The Break-Up Diet to the broken-hearted, the hopeless romantics, the seekers of princes, the believers in happily-ever-after, and the queens of their own castle, so they can laugh and cry and nod their heads in unison, saying: "I've been there and she's telling my story."
She hopes readers like her book, and admits she feels weird talking about herself in third person.
The Break-Up Diet: A Memoir
by Annette Fix
ISBN: 978-1-934518-39-7
Trade paperback / 285 pages
February 14, 2008
Price: $16.95
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