Melanie Gideon

author of Did I Say You Could Go & Wife 22

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Press

  • Publisher’s Weekly Frankfurt Fair Dealer
  • San Francisco Chronicle Bright Lights
  • Deadline Hollywood
  • Frankfurt Book Fair
  • Shape Magazine
  • Publisher’s Weekly Frankfurt 2010
  • Australian Edition Better Homes and Gardens
  • Reader’s Review SF Library
  • Oakland Tribune
  • Lamorinda Weekly
  • Elle France
  • Daily Mail
  • London Times Sunday Style Magazine
  • More Magazine: Books to Make You Smile
  • Redbook
  • Book Reporter Reviewer Picks 2009
  • Washington Parent
  • Girl with Pen
  • Slippery Year chosen as a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book for 2009
  • The Slippery Year is chosen as an NPR Best Book for 2009
  • Diablo Magazine
  • The Slippery Year is officially a National Bestseller!
  • My review of Mary Karr’s Lit in the San Francisco Chronicle
  • East Bay Express
  • Slippery Year chosen as an Amazon Book Club Selection
  • An excerpt from The Slippery Year chosen as one of Narrative Magazine’s Top Five Stories for 2008-2009
  • Eye on Books
  • New York Times “Room for Debate“
  • Mimi Geerges Show
  • San Diego Tribune
  • Barnes and Noble Review
  • TSY slips onto New York Times bestseller list!
  • (8/13/09) Christian Science Monitor
  • (8/12/09) TSY is a September Indie Notable Book
  • (8/6/09) Leonard Lopate Show
  • (8/5/09) BookPage
  • (8/4/09)  The Diane Rehm Show
  • (8/3/09) Daily Beast
  • (8/3/09 ) New York Post
  • (8/2/09) San Francisco Chronicle
  • (7/30/09) The New York Times
  • (7/27/09) Narrative Magazine
  • (7/24/09) The New Yorker’s Book Bench reviews Slippery Year
  • (August) O Magazine pulls quote from Slippery Year
  • (August) San Francisco Magazine gives Slippery Year an “A”
  • (August) Elle
  • (August) More reviews
  • Foreign Rights: The Slippery Year will be published in Australia and New Zealand in August 2009,  and in the UK, France, Israel and Hungary in 2010.
  • [6/15/09] Frances Dinkelspiel, who writes the wonderful Blog Ghost Word, gives a very nice plug for all things slippery.
  • [5/27/09] The Slippery Year made BEA’s 2009 Breakout Books list!
  • [5/21/09] Sara Nelson of the Daily Beast was kind enough to include The Slippery Year in her “13 Hottest Summer Reads” list.
  • [5/15/09] The Slippery Year was featured in Time Magazine’s Summer Preview of Books.
  • [4/21/09] Liz Smith gives a nod to The Slippery Year.

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