Man, do I wish I had the book I am currently writing when I was pregnant. Called Healthy Eating for Pregnancy and due to release in March 2011, it features 100 spectacular recipes that happen to be good for you and your growing babe, but, more importantly, are about as far as you can get from the kinds of bland, appetite-crushing options I have seen in other pregnancy health books.

On the menu are contributions from the nation’s top chefs, original recipes created by moi, and a guarantee that you’ll want to keep the book in your proverbial back pocket for family dinners down the road.

Stay tuned! I’ll post a few final recipes here. Also, please note this is NOT the final cover!

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Deadline for contribution is June 8, so if you’re into it, please write soon.

Supercool blog Metropolitan Mama posted an interview with me last week–and is giving away a copy of The Real Deal Guide to Pregnancy to one reader who comments on the interview post before midnight on Thursday, May 29. Check it out!

I was super excited to learn that fabulous Breann Joanou reviewed my book on Splendora–and totally got its intention. Thanks, to Breann and congrats on her pregnancy! Read the review.

I am really psyched about this review! Huge thanks to Baby Joys, a very cool blog.
Read the complete review.

If you want to know why I wrote The Real Deal Guide to Pregnancy in a subject rather than trimester format, learn why I don’t believe pregnancy books should include information about everything that can go wrong, or discover why broadcasters at Studio 10 in St. Petersburg, Florida, say the guide is worth getting, check out this interview.

Weight gain is hard for some women to stomach, even when they have the best reason in the world to do so–like they’re pregnant and absolutely should pack on the pounds.

If you’re one of those women who is finding it difficult to embrace the rounder, more cuddly you, check out the article I wrote on Gather.com.

It even includes this photo of me, taken when I was 8 months pregnant, on one of the rare days that I actually made an effort to look good. (It was July 4 and we were going to a party, after all!)

I just got back from introducing my book to the nation through 21 satellite media broadcasts to morning news shows all over the country. I enjoyed it so much that I didn’t even mind that interviews started at 4:30am and went straight through to 9am! (That’s what having a -1/2 year-old who wakes you up four times a night because she’s transitioning to a “big girl bed” will do for you–Sleep? What’s that?)

Check out the fun interview on KMPH Fox 26 out of Fresno, California.

Want to win my book? The wonderful site Moms’ Buzz is giving away copies of my book. Hurry up and enter before March 31!

Also, drop by the site to read what they have to say about my book as well as an article by me on why I wrote it.