Janette is a best-selling author whose newest book, Embracing Your Big Fat Ass – co-authored with Laura Banks - is being released on June 3^rd, 2008.  We’ve reached the tipping point and fat is finally in!  The proof is that this book proposal sold in less than two weeks.  It was acquired by Atria, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, in a pre-empt before a planned auction where six publishers would have been bidding.  Read my hips:  The time has come to turn the tide on body obsession and this is the book that can do it.  Embracing Your Big Fat Ass is more than a book – it’s a movement of women ready to accept themselves as they are.

Janette Barber is a stand up comic and award winning TV producer.  She’s the former five time Emmy award winning supervising producer and four time nominated head writer from the Rosie O’Donnell Show.  She has written for the Grammy Awards and the Tony Awards.  Janette co-created, produced and co-hosted a show called Lighten Up! on the TV Food Network.  She was Hot Topics writer on ABC’s The View during Rosie O’Donnell’s tenure there and won a 2008 Daytime Emmy in Special Class writing for her work on that show.  In print, Janette has a best seller to her credit called Breaking the Rules, Last Ditch Tactics for Landing the Man of Your Dreams (Career Press), also co-authored with Laura Banks.  Janette has written humor columns in both Rosie Magazine and First for Women Magazine.  Send a free e-card with quotes from her stand-up act-just type Janette Barber in the search box at: