Hi everyone,

Guess what's finally in bookstores today? My first novel--Driving Sideways! What people are saying about it:

"Driving Sideways is a gorgeous novel -- I LOVED it!!"
-- Marian Keyes, author of Anybody Out There?

"A hopeful and hilarious debut...Jess Riley may well be my new favorite author."

--Jen Lancaster, author of Bitter is the New Black

"Smart and funny without being forced, sentimental without being maudlin."

--Booklist magazine

"It made me blush several times."

--my Mother-in-law Patti

Target also picked the book as a Break-Out title this summer! But it won't be on their shelves until June 19, so don't go there today unless you need toothpaste and paper towels or something.

If do you buy it today at another retail outlet or online, it comes with the following:

--A spine (inspiration for those of us born in the self-deprecating wing of the hospital)

--No jacket, because who needs one?  It's finally spring in Wisconsin!

--111,840 pre-screened, carefully-selected words placed in a pleasant order

So you could take your OWN expensive road trip this summer, or you could buy Driving Sideways (for less than the cost of four gallons of gas!) and live vicariously through some people I made up. If you would like to buy the book for yourself or many other people in your life (and I hope you do because I would like to make you laugh and/or blush), you can get it on amazon: 

http://www.amazon.com/Driving-Sideways-Novel-Jess-Riley/dp/0345501101/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210785190&sr=8-1

Or you can pick it up at your local bookstore. If they don't have it, kick the manager in the shin or throw a tantrum. I'm totally joking. Please don't do either of those things. Unless you're a toddler. Then you might have an excuse.

Thanks!

Jess

DRIVING SIDEWAYS, out now from Ballantine Books (a division of Random House)

--picked as a Target Break-Out Book nationwide, June 19 - August 9, 2008!
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