Fat Chance (Red Dress Ink) - Hardcover

Deborah Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and nutritionalist who divides her time between covering health, fitness and beauty stories and writing children's books. She has been a regular contributor to the New York Times (including a four-year stint as the Sunday New York Times Magazine beauty columnist), and a home design columnist for Newsday. Her stories have appeared widely in many other newspapers and national magazines, including the Daily News, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Day, Family Circle, Self and Vogue.Blumenthal is the author of The New York Book of Beauty (City & Company, 1995, and published in paperback in 1997 as Beauty: The Little Black Book for New York Glamour Girls) and seven children's books, including Ice Palace (Clarion Books) and Don't Let the Peas Touch (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic). Fat Chance is her first novel.

Maggie O'Leary is the champion of the overweight. A columnist at a New York newspaper, she writes "Fat Chance," in which she discusses the real obstacles facing overweight people, debunks myths about the obese, and tries to bolster her readers' confidence. Maggie is secure with her own shapely figure until she receives a call from Hollywood actor Mike Taylor. Mike is going to play a diet doctor in an upcoming film, and he wants Maggie to be his consultant. Maggie is reluctant--how can she go to Hollywood, where everyone is skinny and perfect and she's not? So she decides to secretly go on a diet. But she isn't going to be able to hide from her colleagues forever, and when word gets out to her readers, she has to find a way to balance her new look with her old philosophies. Light as a cupcake and as fun to devour, Blumenthal's debut novel (and Red Dress Ink's second hardcover) will likely find many fans. Kristine Huntley
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