Giveaway: The Modern Girl's Guide to Sticky Situations

I recently received an email from an author - not a PR agency; not a publishing company...an actual author.

Jane Buckingham has already written two bestselling "Modern Girl" books.  She had just finished writing this third one about "Sticky Situations" when a friend of hers was diagnosed with ALS.

I can't do the story justice.  Here's what she had to say:

...ironically just as I put the book to bed, I discovered that there were some situations neither practicality nor wit could fix. A dear friend had been diagnosed with ALS, one of the cruelest diseases I have ever seen. It wasn’t sticky, it stunk.
 
I asked my husband if we could offer to move her and her family into our house in LA. They lived in NYC but living in a fourth floor walk up while her husband’s job would take him to LA was untenable.  So they packed up and moved in for what we all thought would be a 10 week period.
 
6 months later we’ve all been living together in a new sort of reality. It only hit me that there were eight of us when I had to fill out the census (and should I count the two visiting family members stuck here for 2 weeks by the volcano??). And while I love my book, it made doling out advice on a philandering husband or a burnt chicken often seem trivial. So the only thing that made sense was to donate the proceeds of the book to her family. The medical costs are high, and whatever happens I want her children to be well cared for.

Publishers and traditional outlets don’t understand this but moms do. SO I am asking for your help to spread the word. 

The web researcher in me went to work and I googled Jane Buckingham.  She's legit...and this is certainly a cause I can stand behind.  Even if the book sucked, I would probably ask my readers to help out in some way, shape or form.

But here's the thing.  The only thing that sucks about this book: the sticky situations we find ourselves in at least once in our lives.  She has pretty sound (and sometimes hilarious) advice on how to gracefully get out of those situations.

The situations vary from "Your family expects you to name your baby after a particular family member, but you don't want to" to "You boss wants to be BFFs and you want to keep a safe distance" and "Your slingbacks won't stay on."

My favorite (so far) is: "Your bra wire is popping out and stabbing your boob."  I'm going to assume that since this plight is listed in a published book, I'm not the only one looking for a solution?!

Let me just repeat that the author is donating all proceeds from the book to her friend.  The picture above links to the publisher.  I didn't use my own Amazon affiliate link this time.  I figure she will get a larger cut.  Any little bit can help.  Even if you can't afford to buy the book yourself, please help spread the word...or just think positive thoughts for her friend.  We all know that alone can work miracles.

And...

In addition to the free review copy, she gave me a SIGNED copy to give away to a lucky Mommycosm reader :)

Want to win?

Leave a comment on this post by midnight (my time, east coast USA) on Sunday, June 20th.  Each person can leave up to 3 comments for a total of 3 entries.

Also...

For an additional bonus entry, tweet: "Check out The Modern Girl's Guide to Sticky Situations #giveaway over at @Mommycosm http://bit.ly/arE9kH"  Then leave an comment with the link to your tweet.

It's that easy :)

Update on Monday, June 21, 2010 at 10:55AM by Mommycosm

Call it a slow week - the first of summer for many of you.  Or call it karma because she wants to turn around and spread the word about the book and the author's cause...but the winner by default is...

Barbara from TherExtras :)

I will be in touch shortly via email.

Comments

[Barbara]

If I win, I promise to giveaway the book on my blog, and spread her message.

Great cause, Mommycosm!