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August 23, 2007 by Angela Shupe | 0 Comments

Forbes.com:

It’s always a good story: A talented young mother gets off the Manhattan fast-track to stay home with the kids and still manages to craft a successful media career.

Susan Konig’s latest book, I Wear the Maternity Pants in This Family, hit the bookstores this week. When the journalist/broadcaster’s first book came out two years ago, USA Today went bonkers, giving the book, Why Animals Sleep So Close to the Road (and Other Lies I Tell My Children), a top-half-of-the-page review that compared new author Konig to the late, great Erma Bombeck. A day or two later, Susan was reading to book shop audiences, selling an excerpt to Reader’s Digest, and the talk shows were calling.

But since this is a woman who believes in staying busy, she topped off her big week by delivering a fourth child. The baby is doing fine and so too her book–from St. Martin’s Press, in paperback as well and still selling.

Now comes this second witty Konig take on family, kids and in this instance, on giving birth after 40. I Wear the Maternity Pants was a Parade magazine “pick” on Sunday. Publishers Weekly and the early reviewers are again muttering, “Bombeckian!” while WOR radio’s Joan Hamburg, with her huge female audience, led her morning show with Susan. Susan’s book, even prior to its pub date, was climbing Amazon’s “family humor” track (it’s now No. 3).

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