“Anger is like an essential vitamin and Jen has given me even more reasons to be angry. I couldn’t be happier or healthier.”
—Lewis Black, stand-up comedian, actor, author, and contributor to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
A humor book inspired by the blog of the same name, Things I Want to Punch in the Face means: 1) a humorous way to convey annoyance or frustration over those little things in life that bug; 2) petty peeves warranting a tongue-in- cheek lashing but involving no physical retribution, 3) an expression made wildly popular by the blog, Things I Want to Punch in the Face. Synonyms: chap your hide, get your goat, rub the wrong way. Antonyms: make out with, love so much you should marry it, float your boat, blow your skirt up.
Jennifer Worick has written or co-authored more than 20 books, including the New York Times Bestseller The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating & Sex. In addition to finding her on bookshelves and newsstands, you can also check her out online at her blogs, word. and Things I Want to Punch in the Face. And if you’re really lucky, you can also catch Jennifer in university auditoriums and lecture halls, where she delivers side-splitting slide-show presentations. In addition, she can be found helping burgeoning authors create appealing and marketable book proposals at The Business of Books.
Heartfelt + handmade = the perfect gift. In Simple Gifts, Jennifer Worick offers step-by-step instructions for creating easy and inspired handmade gifts that won’t break the bank. Learn how to stitch a wine bag for your favorite foodie, sew pajama pants for a tried-and-true friend, roast coffee beans for an office pal, or felt a ring for your sweetheart. Also included is Jennifer’s helpful, witty advice on choosing the right gift for anyone-man, woman, or child-and how to wrap up your present with style.
Whether you have a great relationship with your family or are separated by distance or differences, there is so much more to learn about one another. Here is a handbook on how to forge better family relationships by initiating more interesting conversations and creating an online means of communication. With more than 1,000 insightful questions, the book helps the reader create a dialogue during family gatherings or one-on-one get-togethers. The book then shows how to share that information with the rest of the family (via private YouTube accounts, WIKIs, websites, e-mails, chat groups, and other social media outlets) so a family can create a living history and a place where a current, vibrant dialogue can continue.
Frontier fun meets a home-spun touch in this heart-warming mixture of pioneer projects and wistful nostalgia. Jennifer Worick teaches readers how to sew a quilt, master the art of bread-and-butter pickles, speak old-time slang, and much much more. This is for the legions of Laura Ingalls Wilder fans who have dreamed of what a pioneer life out on the prairie would be like. Combining step-by-step how-to on crafts, with tongue-in-cheek instructions on prairie slang, winning a spelling bee, and singing a lullaby, The “Prairie Girl’s Guide to Life” allows fans to finally act out their childhood dreams or to simply enjoy the vicarious thrill of reading about it one more time. This is a book that will pull at the heart strings of every childhood Laura and also teach us a few prairie-time crafts along the way.