Read Katie Schwartz's review of CANCER IS A BITCH review.

my blog here. You can buy the book from there!

SNEAK PREVIEW!!! at the Debutante Ball. Let me know what you think! REALLY I want to know!!

About CANCER IS A BITCH: Or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis, coming from Da Capo Fall 2008:

"Gail Konop Baker is a knock-out writer who cracks me up one minute then brings me to tears the next. Her beautiful, funny, feisty, poignant memoir isn't just an inspiration for cancer patients and their families--but for all of us. There is so much wisdom between these pages, yet the story is told without an ounce of self pity or a trace of triteness. In the end, this tale is a testament to how precarious and priceless life is, and how each of us needs to live it to the fullest, starting right now." Lolly Winston author of NYT's bestseller Good Grief

"Gail Konop Baker has achieved the near-impossible: She's given us real life -- funny, sad, intimate, heartbreaking, and hopeful -- on the page. To write that way is her gift, and it's a gift to readers too." Jon Clinch author of Finn

NEW PHOTOS ON WEBSITE! LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK

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Final Bare-breasted Mama column is up on Literary Mama

Other NEWS:

"My Religious Education" and an excerpt from "Paris Smells Like Rotten Eggs," are both semi-finalists in The Boston Fiction Festival contest

You can read both of them on my Web site: gailkonopbaker.com

My work is published in Literary Mama, Talking River Review, The Potomac, Mota, The Danforth Review, Madison Magazine, Yankee Pot Roast, Wisconsin Trails, Xanadu, Womansong, Pudding Magazine, Glass Review, and an anthology funded by the Ohio Arts Council.

My short story, "My Religious Education" won third place in the Madison Magazine Short Fiction Contest, chosen by Jane Hamilton and was also a Glimmer Train Top 25 Fiction Open Finalist. My Literary Mama column "Bare-breasted Mama" made its debut in October of 2006.

Excerpts from my novels Waitress of the Month and Paris Smells Like Rotten Eggs are available on my Web site.