A few years ago, we discovered a little chicklit book called Slightly Single. Kim read it, and Jen read it, and I read it, and we just loved the author’s style. We all saw a little bit of ourselves in the main character

The author, Wendy Markham, we learned was from Jen’s hometown of Dunkirk, NY. One of Jen’s best friends has a sister who went to school with her. We also learned that she’d written a good deal of other books, most of them of the suspense/thriller genre, under her real name, Wendy Corsi Staub. I read one of them, In the Blink of an Eye…it’s a supernatural thriller set in Lilydale, NY, and I loved it. Could not put it down.

There was an email address in the back of the book, so I decided to email her and tell her so. She wrote back fairly quickly, and thanked me for writing. I asked her if she’d mind doing an interview for me for Toasted Cheese, and she agreed. (You can read it here)

So yesterday, when Jen read in the paper that Wendy was going to be in town for a book signing at Wegmans, I knew we had to go. I brought my copy of Slightly Settled, her semi-autobiographical sequel to Slightly Single (it includes the story of how she met her real-life husband. adorable.)

Wendy was amazing. I introduced myself, and she thanked me again for the great publicity with the interview, and told me what a great job I’d done. Jen and I both told her that she inspired us, and she told us that it took until she got married and settled down to really get serious about her writing. (It must have worked well for her. She’s very prolific!)

She’s a very talented writer. I recommend checking her out.

I left with a new-found inspiration. Thanks, Wendy! 🙂