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 I am pleased to announce that Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood has made its debut! It is now avalaible at Amazon, Borders, and other outlets. Plus, you can buy my book together with Phil Ribaudo's The Road Letters.
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Please make yourself at home and fix yourself a plate of chips. I'll be manning the blender. For more scoop on who I am and what I do, please visit The Mommy Blog and DotMoms. Lots more will be coming your way—keep an eye on the official Mommy Confidential site!
Some spotlight reviews:
Hadiyo Jim'ale (The Confessions of a Mother)
5.0 out of 5 stars, April 7, 2009 on Amazon.com
Melinda Roberts may be young but she has got one hell of an experience. Although she goes through absolutely insane early years of motherhood including that horrible disorder a lot of us mothers suffer, Melinda (who calls herself "Mindy") takes life in strides. She is a wonderful mother who struggles to keep her life in order for the sake of her children.
And when she writes late at night (as is the time most of us mothers find any time for ourselves), she taps into a great source of energy because she writes like a woman who has no worry in life! Her wit and positive outlook on life kept me glued to the pages of her book to the end.
Don't get the wrong idea, Mindy is brutally honest about her life. She is honest about her career ambitions. She is honest about the ways her marriage was destroyed by the family economy. She is honest about her struggles with her feelings about herself as a mother. It is not a "Oh, poor me!" kind of a book. No, not at all.
I think what makes this book so important above everything else is that it validates our own experiences as mothers. It is very easy to relate to Mindy's life, even if we have experienced life on different circumstances. Her genius is the generosity in which she writes as a mother. I spent half of it going "AMEN!" because her life mirrors that of so many of us in ways you don't realize until you are reading these pages!
From Lulu.com Radio:
"...Funny and well-written. The world has been in need of a maternal humorist since Erma Bombeck died."
Every Mommy's Best Girlfriend
"Reading Melinda Roberts' new book is like spending an evening with your best girlfriends. [She reveals] the truly tender, life-altering, and heartbreaking moments of motherhood in a way that no other book on the subject does. And Roberts is not just funny ha-ha. She's I-can't-breathe-I'm-laughing- so-hard funny." —A. Sydow
From Meridith O'Brien of The Boston Mommy Blog:
Reading the book is like sitting down with a close girlfriend over a cup of coffee (or, in some parts of the book, over a half dozen or so margaritas) and dishing, truly dishing, no-holds-barred (okay some barred) about our lives. From snarkiness to laughter, to melancholy and fear, and back again, Mindy provides a treat here that makes for a compulsive read. To me, reading these entries altogether, one after the other, is like having a new king-sized can of Pringles sitting on the counter next to you. And eating the entire thing.
Her book is personal. Her book is universal. And it’s real.
Jamie L. Ervin "Mommy of 5" (Portland, OR USA):
I LOVED this book. I have read it several times since Hubby purchased an autographed copy directly from Mindy for Christmas 2006. She is honest and funny... has been through all the things we have been and isn't afraid to share her fears, frustrations or spontaneous combustion! Hubby sits beside my bubble bath some nights and is frequently found looking at me oddly, wondering what the heck is so funny. Sometimes I share.
By Joy M. Hall (So Cal):
This refreshingly real account of Mindy's adventures with life is like a long chat with a girlfriend. Ms. Roberts' book is honest, real, funny and sometimes heartwrenching; however, always a delight. She doesn't let the trials and tribulations ruin her sense of humor as she conquers motherhood was grace and style.
By ReaderGrrl (Boston):
Remember Nora Ephron's Heartburn? Years ago that book taught me how to make it through life's crises with a sense of humor. Working mom Mindy Roberts updates the concept of laughing until your ribs hurt through financial dips, health scares, and of course, heartbreak.
Wonderful, warm, wisecracky and perfect with a glass of wine at the end of the day.
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Print: $10.91 Sometimes the title is worth the essay's weight in lead.
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Print: $15.00 Take a woman fresh out of college, plop her down in Silicon Valley, saddle her with a mortgage, let her ride the tech boom, give her three babies in four years, slap her with the tech bust, watch vicariously as her marriage disintegrates, end her career, and hand her a computer. What do you get? A memoir in real time adapted from the wildly popular weblog, The Mommy Blog. Mommy Confidential is a naked, brutally funny, endearingly honest chronicle of family life beset by disaster on many fronts. Mindy keeps her family together through catastrophic illness, four bouts of postpartum depression, financial peril, relationship Chernobyl, familial Waterloo, and job instability. All through it her sense of humor and her sharp, edgy, witty writing keep her together and upright.
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