Tag: funny

Stand Up & Heartbreak…A Comic and Sex Addict Walk Into a Marriage

  Buy on Amazon.com Stand Up & Heartbreak is a narrative non-fiction glimpse into the life of a budding stand-up comic who unknowingly marries a sex addict, and they both stop performing. Set in NYC in 1981, from comedy cellars…

Stacey Roberts – Our Second Featured Author of the Week

Stacey Roberts made readers laugh out loud with his debut book Trailer Trash with a Girl’s Name. When the author was born, his mother did the unthinkable. She gave him a girl’s name—Stacey. But Stacey’s name was just the first hurdle he’d…

Week Five of Summer of Promotion: Cathy Sikorski and Roz Warren

This week we have two women, both lawyers by education but both have forged unique and different paths.  Check out their bios, books and get ready to see a lot about them this week.   Cathy Sikorski has been a…

Week 3 of our HO Summer of Promotion Highlights Perry Block and Ginny Simon

Week 3 of HOPress-Shorehouse Books Summer of Promotion highlights a truly funny man and a freelance writing expert.  Perry Block and his book Nouveau Old, Formerly Cute has made so many laugh out loud at the concept of aging.  Ginny…

Meet Dorothy Rosby: our Second author of the week and her book I Didn’t Know You Could Make Birthday Cake from Scratch

Meet Dorothy Rosby and her latest book,  I Didn’t Know You Could Make Birthday Cake From Scratch: Parenting Blunders from Cradle to Empty Nest . Dorothy Rosby is a syndicated humor columnist whose work appears in publications in eleven Western and…

Week 2 of HO Summer of Promotion: First Up is Molly Stevens author of Boomer on the Ledge

Week 2 of our summer of promotion highlights two very funny women: Molly Stevens and Dorothy Rosby.  In our first blog post of the week, we are re-visitng the interview HO did with Molly Stevens author of Boomer on the…

Leslie Handler Addresses the Good, the Bad and the Sometimes Silly in Her Book “Rats, Mice and Other Things You Can’t Take to the Bank”

    Life happens. Such a simple concept but the absolute truth, and this is the message that first-time author Leslie Handler wants to share with her readers in her new book Rats, Mice and Other Things You Can’t Take…

Re-Visiting Dorothy Rosby and I Didn’t Know You Could Make Birthday Cake from Scratch

Last week, I watched Dorothy Rosby do stand up at the Erma Bombeck Writer’s Conference and I remembered why this writer delights me so. Funny, smart, self-deprecating and genuine, Dorothy’s books are a joy to read.  Her most recent, I…