Josie Brown is the author of these novels:
Totlandia (Novel Series), including
Book 1 / Fall; Book 2 /Winter; Book 3 /Spring [2012, 2013, Coliloquy]
The Housewife Assassin Novel Series, including
The Housewife Assassin's Handbook
[2011, Signal Press]
The Housewife Assassin's Guide to Gracious Killing
[2012, Signal Press]
The Housewife Assassin's Killer Christmas Tips
[2011, Signal Press]
The Housewife Assassin's Relationship Survival Guide
[2013, Signal Press]
The Baby Planner
[2011, Simon & Schuster]
Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
[2010, Simon & Schuster]
Impossibly Tongue-Tied
[2006, HarperCollins]
True Hollywood Lies
[2005, HarperCollins; 2010 Diversion Books]
Her novel, Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives (Simon & Schuster), is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer as a dramatic television series.
Josie is also the author of three non-fiction books: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Finding Mr. Right [Alpha/Pearson]; Marriage Confidential: 102 Honest Answers to the Questions Every Husband Wants to Ask, and Every Wife Needs to Know [Signal Press]; and Last Night I Dreamt of Cosmopolitans: A Modern Girl's Dream Dictionary [St. Martin's Press]
As a journalist, Josie's celebrity interviews and relationships trends articles have been featured in the Los Angeles Times Syndicate International, Redbook and Complete Woman magazines, as well as AOL, Yahoo, AskMen.com, Divorce360.com, and SingleMindedWomen.com
Email: mail@josiebrown.com
Facebook Fan Page: Josie Brown, Author, Secret Lives...
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JosieBrownCA
PRAISE FOR JOSIE'S BOOKS:
The Baby Planner
"Brown takes baby mania to its illogical, hysterical extreme in this bubbly romp....But what begins as a light foray into Bugaboo country turns into something bigger than a satire of status-obsessed Bay Area yummy mummies as Brown takes a dark look at the fears of parenthood and family, with Katie's heartbreaking longing for a child unveiling a disturbing reality about her marriage and family. Still, the message from the somber realities is one full of hope: love makes a family, commitment keeps it together." --Publishers Weekly
Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
"Josie Brown writes with all the secrets, sex, money and scandal of an OK Magazine cover. Truly entertaining reading."--Jackie Collins, Hollywood Wives
"Josie Brown’s writing is whip-smart as well as wickedly funny, and just as you are enjoying the ride she takes you on, she shatters your heart with her insight into modern lives." --Tatjana Soli, New York Times bestselling author and 2011 recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction for The Lotus Eaters
"Already touted as the perfect summer beach read, this character driven (sometimes steamy) book can best be described as the offspring of an affair between Desperate Housewives and a Jennifer Weiner novel....A quick look into the sometimes catty world of wealth where priorities get shifted, friendships get broken and marriages, like their mansions, get rearranged. It was light and fluffy (with some excellent dialogue.)..." -- GoodHousekeeping.com
"I loved it! Josie Brown captures the highs and lows of love, lust and marriage with heartwrenching pathos. I'm recommending it to all my friends as the perfect beach read!" -- Lisa Rinna, acatress, and author of the novel Starlit
True Hollywood Lies
The tone is confessional, the writing laced with venomous humor...”
—Wall Street Journal
"Brown captures the humor of working for a megalomaniac...[A] well-paced, entertaining story..." —Publishers Weekly
"A fine piece of literary work." —New York Post
Impossibly Tongue-Tied
"Brad, Angelina, Britney and Kevin may want to check out Josie Brown's new novel, Impossibly Tongue-Tied, for its ripped-from-the-headlines plot that mixes their scandals together...” – PAGE SIX, New York Post
Josie lives in Marin County, California, with Martin and our two children.
Literary Agent: Holly Root, of the Waxman Literary Agency
Dramatic Agent: Bob Freedman of the Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency
Talent Agent: Jon Cassir, of Creative Artists Agency
If that's still not enough information, glean what you can from these musings:
3 things I truly believe in:
• Pretty is as pretty does.• Just because you've made a million dollars in one field doesn't mean you know bupkes in any other.
• Everyone should get their hearts broken, at least once. Okay, just once.
3 things that make me happy:
• Linguini and clams in a white sauce, served with a good Chianti.
• A great foreign film.
• Walking a Mount Tam trail.
• A home library with wall-to-ceiling bookcases in between tall paned windows with deep seats..
• A tricked-out cabin in the woods.
• A body that looks great in tight white size 2 jeans.
• Political lobbying (especially when it comes to health care conglomerates).
• Cancer.
• Bad television.
• Make, then give, a million dollars to charity.
• Meet Robin Williams. And Brian Williams. Oh yeah, and Stephen Colbert. (Maybe he’ll change his name to Williams, so that it’s like winning a trifecta or something.)
• Make the New York Times Bestseller List.
You can read my blog online, at www.AuthorProvocateur.com or catch more Josie-eque pithyness at www.twitter.com/JosieBrownCA and at www.facebook.com/josiebrownauthor.
