Posted by: Publicity on Jan 25, 2010
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ex* (9781402221095) by Michelle Fiordaliso and Heather Belle is featured in today's edition of The Denver Post.
http://www.denverpost.com/lifestyles/ci_14265589
Michelle and Heather were interviewed for an article on dealing with ex relationships. The Denver Post's circulation is 340,949.
Posted by: Publicity on Nov 20, 2009
Michelle Fiordaliso and Heather Belle, authors of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ex* (9781402229237) will be guests on The Tyra Banks Show!
Michelle and Heather are taping 2 segments with Tyra this Tuesday, November 24th. The airdate is TBD. The Tyra Banks Show receives 1.3 million viewers!
Also, Michelle Fiordaliso will be an in-studio guest on the Gayle King Show on Sirius/XM Radio. This is scheduled for Tuesday, December 22nd at 9:40 am ET.
www.everythingex.com
Posted by: Publicity on Oct 16, 2009
Heather Belle and Michelle Fiordaliso, authors of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ex* (9781402229237), were interviewed in an article in Thursday's Globe and Mail.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/how-to-manage-your-many-exes/article1325279/
The Globe and Mail has a circulation of 308,795.
Posted by: Publicity on Jun 29, 2009
The following reviews of
The Dancing Plague (ISBN 978-1-40221-943-6) and
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Ex* (ISBN 978-1-4022-2923-7) will appear in the July 1
st issue of
Library Journal: "Enthusiastically recommended for students and general readers."
Waller, John. The Dancing Plague: The Strange True Story of an Extraordinary Illness. Sourcebooks. Sept. 2009. c.272p. illus. ISBN 978-1-40221-943-6. $24.99. HIST
In the blistering hot summer sun of July 1518, a Strasbourg housewife stepped out of her house and began to dance. She danced until she collapsed in her tracks. When she awoke, she started again. She danced until her feet were bloody and still she danced, begging her neighbors to make her stop. Others joined in: over the next two months, 200 to 400 people succumbed to the dancing malady; 15 died of it. Then the dancing epidemic ended, never to occur again. (There were earlier instances of choreomania, but none after.) Waller (history of medicine, Michigan State Univ.: Einstein's Luck), ably explicates this odd phenomenon and its end. He writes a vigorous and engaging prose and tells an absolutely fascinating story; he is scrupulous in his use of sources and generous in recognizing scholarly work in the field. One earlier explanation of the "dancing plague" invoked ergotism, an alkaloid poisoning caused by a fungus that infects wheat, and causes loss of body control and delusions. Waller argues that a more appropriate diagnosis is trance behavior, triggered by common psychic distress.
VERDICT In the absence of detailed evidence, the author must rely on the occasional "perhaps," "maybe," and "could be," but this is thoroughly responsible historical writing and Waller has made sense of one of the more exotic incidents in the history of medicine. Enthusiastically recommended for students and general readers.
--David Keymer, Modesto, CA
