Judy’s Hilarious Books and Must-Read Reports
The Women’s Daily Irony Supplement
Named ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award in Humor! (GOLD)
Silver "IPPY" Award from Independent Publisher
Bronze Award, Benjamin Franklin Book Awards
Ever fall for the lure of expensive, exotic moisturizers promising impossible anti-aging miracles? Ever receive one of those happy, sappy New Year’s letters from someone you barely remember from fourth grade? Can’t decide whether to stay friends with a size two woman who won’t eat a carrot because of its
high-carb content?
If so, you’re in good company. Award-winning humorist and Bikram yoga dropout Judy Gruen copes with all this and more in The Women’s Daily Irony Supplement. Her riffs on female obsessions, motherhood, men, and why a woman’s home is her hassle are candid, fresh, and surprisingly intimate.
Reading these comic gems is guaranteed to improve the health of every woman, because laughter releases endorphins!
Starbucks® has published a quip from the book on 5 million cups.
“Judy Gruen is the only writer who reminds me that marriage is funny. Now when my wife gives me a speech about how I should change at my inner core, instead of having that stupid look on my face that all men have, I remember Part V.”
—Mark Schiff, author, I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics
“Judy Gruen delivers a daily dose of laughter in her wonderful collection of humorous essays The Women’s Daily Irony Supplement. I love books that sell themselves, and I had orders for this one before it even made it to the shelf. This book will find a home on my humor shelf, and I hope it will find a home on the Book Sense Picks List too! Bravo.”
— Keri Holmes, bookseller, The Kaleidoscope, Hampton, Iowa
"Whether she's poking fun at Martha Stewart, holiday letters or designer purses, Judy Gruen is a genius at finding new and utterly hilarious ways to skewer some of our silliest excesses.”
—Celia Rivenbark, author, Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank
" Any book that can make me laugh at EVERY story deserves a 5-star rating from me."
—Connie Anderson, armchairreviews.com
Regularly $14.95
NATIONAL HUMOR MONTH SPECIAL: Now only $10.00!
Till We Eat Again: Confessions of a Diet Dropout
Can a woman who will you follow you anywhere if you promise her a hunk of chocolate pecan pie ever change her evil ways and find happiness as a gym rat? Can this same sugar-addicted woman find glory doing bicep curls and chomping down collard greens, with only the occasional breakdown over a crumb ring donut?
Till We Eat Again: Confessions of a Diet Dropout, follows Judy Gruen’s true adventures as she tries to lose fifteen measly pounds in time for a 20-year college reunion. And she pulls no punches, except during boxing class: Judy belly dances to the “camel,” runs laps while an Army major blows his whistle at a fitness boot camp, and gets tangled in yoga positions so bizarre the paramedics need the “Jaws of Life” to get her out. She’ll also try to figure out who’s got the straight skinny on nutritional news, even as medical researchers conclude that even drinking too much water can kill you. After months of these and other indignities, she’ll even earn a bookmark made of real paper for losing five pounds on Weight Watchers.
Will she meet her weight loss goal? (Hint: This book is non-fiction!) Turn each laugh-filled page and find out!
"From resolution to reunion, through calorie deprivation and torturous perspiration, Judy takes us on a very funny aerobic ride in her quest for inner esteem and outer svelte.”
—W. Bruce Cameron, author of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.
Regularly $12.95
NATIONAL HUMOR MONTH SPECIAL: Now only $10.00!
Carpool Tunnel Syndrome: Motherhood as Shuttle Diplomacy
Parenting advice overload got you down? Relax! In this nearly fact-free book, Gruen suggests wacky but wise parenting tricks based on her in-the-trenches experience as a mother of four kids, two hamsters, and one dog. She’ll teach you how to hide successfully from the PTA, why pet goldfish are a very, very bad idea, and why triple hot fudge sundaes are required for a mom’s mental health.
Recommended for any mom who thinks of herself as dressed up because she yanked the the Mickey Mouse glow-in-the-dark bandage off her finger and ran a diaper wipe behind the earlobes, Carpool Tunnel Syndrome has got moms and dads laughing about overzealous parents at Little League games, cheap imported toys that start beeping at 2:00 a.m., and bizarre pediatric ailments that make children too sick to go to school, including “itchy right eyebrow” and “fat hair.” This laugh-out-loud book is a classic in the genre!
“Judy Gruen’s book is probably one of the funniest books I have ever read, and I laughed myself silly over the chapter ‘Why Guar Gum is Really a Vegetable’. This book is for every woman who has ever experienced morning sickness, endured screaming toddlers in a supermarket and/or have fallen victim to a Stupid Parent Trick by precocious progeny. Judy has been there, done that and written a hilarious book about it. You’ll love it!”
—Leanne Ely, author of Saving Dinner for the Holidays and Body Clutter.
Regularly $12.95
NATIONAL HUMOR MONTH SPECIAL: Now only $10.00!
13 Tips to Keep Young Kids from Swearing
Special Report #1: 13 Ways to Keep Young Kids from Swearing
You will learn:
- Ways to filter damaging media input to protect your children
- How to find cleaner entertainment choices the entire family will enjoy
- How to react when others swear in front of your children
- Tips to keep your kids wanting to "talk clean"
- How to have fun with your child while finding better word choices at the same time
$4.95
10 Tips to Help Your Teens Stop Swearing
Special Report #2: 10 Tips to Help Your Teens Stop Swearing
You will learn:
- Why swearing is a bigger problem for your teens than you think
- How to set a non-swearing standard in your home
- How to deal with teen resistance to your efforts
- How technology can help
- How to help your teen rethink the "coolness quotient" of swearing
- Practical tips to combat swearing by building your teen's sense of self
$4.95
12 Tips to Add Humor in Public Speaking
Special Report #3: 12 Tips to Add Humor in Public Speaking
You will learn:
- How to inject relatable humor right from the beginning of your presentation
- How to find humor that will work for your audience, and what topics to avoid
- How to use effective self-deprecating humor -- not loser humor
- Tips on how to keep the audience engaged
- How your audience can provide new, fresh humor material for future presentations
$4.95
Named ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award in Humor! (GOLD)
Silver "IPPY" Award from Independent Publisher
Bronze Award, Benjamin Franklin Book Awards
Ever fall for the lure of expensive, exotic moisturizers promising impossible anti-aging miracles? Ever receive one of those happy, sappy New Year’s letters from someone you barely remember from fourth grade? Can’t decide whether to stay friends with a size two woman who won’t eat a carrot because of its high-carb content?
If so, you’re in good company. Award-winning humorist and Bikram yoga dropout Judy Gruen copes with all this and more in The Women’s Daily Irony Supplement. Her riffs on female obsessions, motherhood, men, and why a woman’s home is her hassle are candid, fresh, and surprisingly intimate.
Reading these comic gems is guaranteed to improve the health of every woman, because laughter releases endorphins!
Starbucks® has published a quip from the book on 5 million cups.
“Judy Gruen is the only writer who reminds me that marriage is funny. Now when my wife gives me a speech about how I should change at my inner core, instead of having that stupid look on my face that all men have, I remember Part V.”
—Mark Schiff, author, I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics“Judy Gruen delivers a daily dose of laughter in her wonderful collection of humorous essays The Women’s Daily Irony Supplement. I love books that sell themselves, and I had orders for this one before it even made it to the shelf. This book will find a home on my humor shelf, and I hope it will find a home on the Book Sense Picks List too! Bravo.”
— Keri Holmes, bookseller, The Kaleidoscope, Hampton, Iowa"Whether she's poking fun at Martha Stewart, holiday letters or designer purses, Judy Gruen is a genius at finding new and utterly hilarious ways to skewer some of our silliest excesses.”
—Celia Rivenbark, author, Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank" Any book that can make me laugh at EVERY story deserves a 5-star rating from me."
—Connie Anderson, armchairreviews.com
Regularly $14.95
NATIONAL HUMOR MONTH SPECIAL: Now only $10.00!
Till We Eat Again: Confessions of a Diet Dropout
Can a woman who will you follow you anywhere if you promise her a hunk of chocolate pecan pie ever change her evil ways and find happiness as a gym rat? Can this same sugar-addicted woman find glory doing bicep curls and chomping down collard greens, with only the occasional breakdown over a crumb ring donut?
Till We Eat Again: Confessions of a Diet Dropout, follows Judy Gruen’s true adventures as she tries to lose fifteen measly pounds in time for a 20-year college reunion. And she pulls no punches, except during boxing class: Judy belly dances to the “camel,” runs laps while an Army major blows his whistle at a fitness boot camp, and gets tangled in yoga positions so bizarre the paramedics need the “Jaws of Life” to get her out. She’ll also try to figure out who’s got the straight skinny on nutritional news, even as medical researchers conclude that even drinking too much water can kill you. After months of these and other indignities, she’ll even earn a bookmark made of real paper for losing five pounds on Weight Watchers.
Will she meet her weight loss goal? (Hint: This book is non-fiction!) Turn each laugh-filled page and find out!
"From resolution to reunion, through calorie deprivation and torturous perspiration, Judy takes us on a very funny aerobic ride in her quest for inner esteem and outer svelte.”
—W. Bruce Cameron, author of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.
Regularly $12.95
NATIONAL HUMOR MONTH SPECIAL: Now only $10.00!
Carpool Tunnel Syndrome: Motherhood as Shuttle Diplomacy
Parenting advice overload got you down? Relax! In this nearly fact-free book, Gruen suggests wacky but wise parenting tricks based on her in-the-trenches experience as a mother of four kids, two hamsters, and one dog. She’ll teach you how to hide successfully from the PTA, why pet goldfish are a very, very bad idea, and why triple hot fudge sundaes are required for a mom’s mental health.
Recommended for any mom who thinks of herself as dressed up because she yanked the the Mickey Mouse glow-in-the-dark bandage off her finger and ran a diaper wipe behind the earlobes, Carpool Tunnel Syndrome has got moms and dads laughing about overzealous parents at Little League games, cheap imported toys that start beeping at 2:00 a.m., and bizarre pediatric ailments that make children too sick to go to school, including “itchy right eyebrow” and “fat hair.” This laugh-out-loud book is a classic in the genre!
“Judy Gruen’s book is probably one of the funniest books I have ever read, and I laughed myself silly over the chapter ‘Why Guar Gum is Really a Vegetable’. This book is for every woman who has ever experienced morning sickness, endured screaming toddlers in a supermarket and/or have fallen victim to a Stupid Parent Trick by precocious progeny. Judy has been there, done that and written a hilarious book about it. You’ll love it!”
—Leanne Ely, author of Saving Dinner for the Holidays and Body Clutter.
Regularly $12.95
NATIONAL HUMOR MONTH SPECIAL: Now only $10.00!
13 Tips to Keep Young Kids from Swearing
Special Report #1: 13 Ways to Keep Young Kids from Swearing
You will learn:
- Ways to filter damaging media input to protect your children
- How to find cleaner entertainment choices the entire family will enjoy
- How to react when others swear in front of your children
- Tips to keep your kids wanting to "talk clean"
- How to have fun with your child while finding better word choices at the same time
$4.95
10 Tips to Help Your Teens Stop Swearing
Special Report #2: 10 Tips to Help Your Teens Stop Swearing
You will learn:
- Why swearing is a bigger problem for your teens than you think
- How to set a non-swearing standard in your home
- How to deal with teen resistance to your efforts
- How technology can help
- How to help your teen rethink the "coolness quotient" of swearing
- Practical tips to combat swearing by building your teen's sense of self
$4.95
12 Tips to Add Humor in Public Speaking
Special Report #3: 12 Tips to Add Humor in Public Speaking
You will learn:
- How to inject relatable humor right from the beginning of your presentation
- How to find humor that will work for your audience, and what topics to avoid
- How to use effective self-deprecating humor -- not loser humor
- Tips on how to keep the audience engaged
- How your audience can provide new, fresh humor material for future presentations
$4.95
Parenting advice overload got you down? Relax! In this nearly fact-free book, Gruen suggests wacky but wise parenting tricks based on her in-the-trenches experience as a mother of four kids, two hamsters, and one dog. She’ll teach you how to hide successfully from the PTA, why pet goldfish are a very, very bad idea, and why triple hot fudge sundaes are required for a mom’s mental health.
Recommended for any mom who thinks of herself as dressed up because she yanked the the Mickey Mouse glow-in-the-dark bandage off her finger and ran a diaper wipe behind the earlobes, Carpool Tunnel Syndrome has got moms and dads laughing about overzealous parents at Little League games, cheap imported toys that start beeping at 2:00 a.m., and bizarre pediatric ailments that make children too sick to go to school, including “itchy right eyebrow” and “fat hair.” This laugh-out-loud book is a classic in the genre!
“Judy Gruen’s book is probably one of the funniest books I have ever read, and I laughed myself silly over the chapter ‘Why Guar Gum is Really a Vegetable’. This book is for every woman who has ever experienced morning sickness, endured screaming toddlers in a supermarket and/or have fallen victim to a Stupid Parent Trick by precocious progeny. Judy has been there, done that and written a hilarious book about it. You’ll love it!”
—Leanne Ely, author of Saving Dinner for the Holidays and Body Clutter.
Regularly $12.95
NATIONAL HUMOR MONTH SPECIAL: Now only $10.00!
13 Tips to Keep Young Kids from Swearing
Special Report #1: 13 Ways to Keep Young Kids from Swearing
You will learn:
- Ways to filter damaging media input to protect your children
- How to find cleaner entertainment choices the entire family will enjoy
- How to react when others swear in front of your children
- Tips to keep your kids wanting to "talk clean"
- How to have fun with your child while finding better word choices at the same time
$4.95
10 Tips to Help Your Teens Stop Swearing
Special Report #2: 10 Tips to Help Your Teens Stop Swearing
You will learn:
- Why swearing is a bigger problem for your teens than you think
- How to set a non-swearing standard in your home
- How to deal with teen resistance to your efforts
- How technology can help
- How to help your teen rethink the "coolness quotient" of swearing
- Practical tips to combat swearing by building your teen's sense of self
$4.95
12 Tips to Add Humor in Public Speaking
Special Report #3: 12 Tips to Add Humor in Public Speaking
You will learn:
- How to inject relatable humor right from the beginning of your presentation
- How to find humor that will work for your audience, and what topics to avoid
- How to use effective self-deprecating humor -- not loser humor
- Tips on how to keep the audience engaged
- How your audience can provide new, fresh humor material for future presentations
$4.95
Special Report #2: 10 Tips to Help Your Teens Stop Swearing
You will learn:
- Why swearing is a bigger problem for your teens than you think
- How to set a non-swearing standard in your home
- How to deal with teen resistance to your efforts
- How technology can help
- How to help your teen rethink the "coolness quotient" of swearing
- Practical tips to combat swearing by building your teen's sense of self
$4.95
12 Tips to Add Humor in Public Speaking
Special Report #3: 12 Tips to Add Humor in Public Speaking
You will learn:
- How to inject relatable humor right from the beginning of your presentation
- How to find humor that will work for your audience, and what topics to avoid
- How to use effective self-deprecating humor -- not loser humor
- Tips on how to keep the audience engaged
- How your audience can provide new, fresh humor material for future presentations
$4.95