Gail Konop Baker

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Inner Vixen article on HuffPost received more than 1100 comments!

Oct.03.2011

Inner Vixen article on HuffPost received more than 1100 comments!

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PUBLISHED: Sep.08.2008

CANCER IS A BITCH: Or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis

Gail Konop Baker's CANCER IS A BITCH, is an intimate, brutally honest and often humorous account of the author's brush with breast cancer and its intersection with midlife, motherhood and marriage

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Sep.20.2011 - 3:18 pm

oy. this needs updating.

ummmmmmmm..... last time I posted here I wasn't officially a published author. I wasn't divorced. I hadn't moved to a flat on the other side of town. I wasn't yet addicted to...

Sep.05.2008 - 4:26 pm

interviews, events, reviews oh my...

After four intense days taking our daughter to college and one day home to wash clothes and then 7 hours up to Madeline Island in Lake Superior and three days of outdoor bliss......

Aug.17.2008 - 7:36 am

please read this online review of my memoir to see why NOT to be afraid to read it!!

I know the word cancer scares people. It scares me. But that is part of the reason I wrote this memoir, to try to de-stigmatize cancer for other survivors. I believe it is one of...

Aug.12.2008 - 12:54 pm

nyc trip and booklist and why I write

My trip to NYC to the Backspace conference was exciting and exhausting and a taste of what's to come in the months ahead. At yoga last night I was describing what it feels like to...

Comments from Gail

Jul.22.2008 - 1:17 pm

In response to: The Envy Flu and its Cure

I love your honesty Ericka.

I love your honesty Ericka. I've suffered from that bug myself... your time is coming soon. I feel it...

Jul.18.2008 - 6:50 pm

In response to: The Joy of Soup

love slathered.... will try

love slathered.... will try to use it at least twice tomorrow... also love that tomato soup recipe and love soup in...

Jul.18.2008 - 4:26 pm

In response to: I LOVE getting older

thanks Francoise!!

Jul.18.2008 - 2:55 pm

In response to: I LOVE getting older

Thanks Thomas for reading

Thanks Thomas for reading and commenting. And congratulations to you on four years!! That must feel great!

Jul.18.2008 - 2:54 pm

In response to: I LOVE getting older

Shana! You're a doll to say

Shana! You're a doll to say that! And REALLY cute yourself! Plan to read your blog soon. Can't wait! Are you in...

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Jul.07.2008

CANCER IS A BITCH: Or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis

Published by Publishers Weekly

Baker, a former columnist for the online magazine Literary Mama living in Madison, Wis., is busy on her novel—with a protagonist she happens to have diagnosed with breast cancer—...

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About Gail

Gail Konop Baker's work has been published in Marie Claire, Health Magazine, Literary Mama, Talking River Review, The Potomac, Mota, The Danforth Review, Madison Magazine, Yankee Pot Roast, Wisconsin Trails, Xanadu, Womansong, Pudding Magazine, Glass Review,...

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Causes Gail Baker Supports

health and wellness

social justice and equality

anything green and/or organic

Gail’s Favorite Books

The Great Gatsby, Anna Karenina, The Catcher in the Rye, To the Lighthouse, anything by Grace Paley, selected essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Operating...