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Joni Rodgers
NYT Bestselling Author/Ghostwriter

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PUBLISHED: Aug.24.2011

Crazy For Trying

In the cramped bar car lavatory on a westbound train, Tulsa Bitters faces the mirror, chubby and freshly heartbroken. She scrubs the makeup from her face, chucks her padded bra in the trash and makes the conscious decision to become herself. Six months later, in the cab of his road-weary pickup truck, grizzled Vietnam vet Mac White Wolf MacPeters, half Blackfoot, half raging Irish...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.15.2011

Sugarland

As children, Kit and Kiki Smithers performed and the Sugar Babes, but those glory days are long gone. All that remains are the blues the sisters sing as they cope with withering marriages, cheating spouses, lost opportunities, and the demands of motherhood. Sugar Land is a verdant novel about the healing power of forgiveness, the seemingly impossible task of loving, the resilience...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.29.2011

Bald in the Land of Big Hair

Joni Rodgers lives in Houston, Texas, where big hair is a God-given right. It’s prerequisite for a real estate license, as natural as Naugahyde, as important as Elvis. But at thirty-two, Joni was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and aggressive cancer of the immune system, and she lost her hair to chemotherapy. It’s no fun being a bald girl in the Big Hair Capitol of America,...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.14.2010

Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Breast Cancer Movement by Nancy Brinker with Joni Rodgers

Ambassador Nancy Goodman Brinker is the founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Promise Me is the story of her unique relationship with her sister, Susan Goodman Komen, who died of breast cancer at age 37, leaving her little sister galvanized with purpose. Woven with the cultural and scientific story of breast cancer from ancient Egypt to the era of the pink ribbon, Nancy's...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.14.2009

A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages

"Life's too short. I'm not." You might know her as a Tony Award-winning Broadway star, who originated the role of Galinda the Good Witch in the smash musical Wicked and won a Tony for 1999's You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Or you may recognize her from her starring roles on TV -- The West Wing, Pushing Daisies, Sesame Street...oh, and her Huge Hit Sitcom Kristin on NBC...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.10.2007

My First Five Husbands by Rue McClanahan

It was a delight and privilege to work with Rue on her memoir. She was an amazing character and quite a good writer. We remained dear friends over the years, and I was working with her on the adaptation of "My First Five Husbands" for the Broadway stage when she died. The Houston Chronicle asked me share some memories of Rue: http://blogs.chron.com/peep/2010/06/...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.01.2005

The Worst Noel

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1999

Sugar Land

What might have happened if Psyche and Eros had been east Texas trailer trash.

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Crazy for Trying

Sex, trucks and rock'n'roll in post-feminist Montana.

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The Secret Sisters

A strong-minded wife and mother with a successful career, Pia finds herself suddenly widowed, bereft of her passion for her profession and for life itself. Her twin sons leave for college. Her brash, tough-talking sister, Lily, is in prison, paying an unimaginable price for one careless moment. And then there's Pia's annoyingly upright sister-in-law,Beth, who's stalwart faith has...

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Joni's Latest Blogs

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Mar.14.2012 - 11:19 am

Literary Sex in Brief

My new novel THE HURRICANE LOVER involves a deadly game of cat and mouse that spins out of control during the devastating Gulf Coast hurricane season of 2005. A con artist uses...

Aug.24.2011 - 10:49 am

An Indie Author's Journey to the Big 6 and Back Again (a publishing saga as illustrated by my hair)

This is me at the time of my first professional writing gig. In 1976, I was an 8th grade misfit at an academically boffo but ideologically stifling Evangelical school. Girls in my...

Nov.29.2010 - 9:43 am

Boxing the Octopus

FYI, I mainly post on "Boxing the Octopus", where a predominantly jolly crew of publishing pros discuss the joys and challenges of the book business. Check us out at www...

Nov.28.2010 - 6:15 pm

My "Art and economics of ghostwriting" article on AOL Daily Finance

Among this week's nonfiction bestsellers, you'll see a former U.S. president, a Rolling Stone, an actress with food issues, two political pundits, and someone known as "Baba...

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Sep.08.2010 - 7:26 am

In response to: Justin Bieber's Masterpiece

Actually, I get it

I realize I'm setting myself up for ridicule here, but earlier this summer, a writing assignment had me shadow Justin...

Rodgers' strength is a knack for realistic characters and a womanly wise, laugh-through-tears appreciation of life.”

—Publisher's Weekly

About Joni

New York Times bestselling author Joni Rodgers was born into a family bluegrass band and grew up on stage, opening for country music legends in the 1960s and 70s. She was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1994 and used the chemo downtime to finish her...

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Leukemia Lymphoma Society, Lymphoma Research Foundation, The Wellness Community, Susan G Komen for the Cure

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NYT Bestselling Author/Ghostwriter