Best Staged Plans (28 page)

Q: What’s your best advice for women struggling to find their own next chapters?

A: Stop listening to the naysayers. Try things. Make mistakes. Get your computer skills up to speed. Work harder than everybody else. Help other women along the way, remembering that, as one of my characters once said, karma is a boomerang. And, of course, check out my reinvention page at ClaireCook.com.

About the Author

Claire Cook
wrote her first book in her minivan outside her daughter’s swim practice and is now the bestselling author of
Seven Year Switch, The Wildwater Walking Club, Summer Blowout, Life’s a Beach, Multiple Choice, Must Love Dogs
, and
Ready to Fall
. She lives in Scituate, Massachusetts, often called the Irish Riviera, with her family, and shares tips about writing and reinvention on her Web site,
ClaireCook.com.

To learn more about Claire Cook, or to buy her books, go
here
.

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 Claire Cook

All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. For information address Hyperion, 114 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10011.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the print book as follows:

Cook, Claire
    Best staged plans / Claire Cook. — 1st ed.
        p. cm.
    ISBN 978-1-4013-4117-6
    1. Middle-aged women—Fiction. 2. Female friendship—Fiction. 3. Home staging—Fiction. 4. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
    PS3553.055317B47 2011
    813’.54—dc22

2010041839

eBook Edition ISBN: 978-1-4013-4269-2

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Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa

Cover photograph by Yumiko Kinoshita / plainpicture

First eBook Edition

Original hardcover edition printed in the United States of America.

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