Susan Shapiro recently sold her first novel, Speed Shrinking, in a two book deal to St. Martin's Press thanks to her new agent (and fellow mb instructor) Ryan Fischer-Harbage.

Sue sold the book, which is about food addiction, while she was fasting on Yom Kippur. It should be coming out August 2009. She says, "I've been trying fiction since 1981 and this is the first word of it I've ever sold. (Of course my family and husband think everything I've written has been fiction.)"

Sue is the author of several memoirs including Lighting Up, Five Men Who Broke My Heart, and Only As Good as Your Word.

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