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Sept. 2007: Jersey Shore BookFest!
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Chefs, cookbook authors - and Melissa! This year's festival has a Food Lit theme, so "Love, Life and Linguine" was chosen to participate. Sample food, buy books, watch cooking demos. Food, books and sun. What could be better?
Ocean County Library's 2007 BookFest
Saturday, September 29 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tom's River, NJ
www.oceancountylibrary.org
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Have a singular New Year's Eve
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Philadelphia Inquirer, December 31, 2006
OK, so you're alone for the holiday. Must it be an unqualified tragedy?
By Dawn Fallik
Inquirer Staff Writer
Philadelphia author Melissa Jacobs celebrated last New Year's Eve in her pajamas. Covered in hives. With a nice 20-year-old neighbor (nothing happened). |
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Epicurious: Best Culinary Novels of 2006
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Monday, December 4, 2006
Tasty Tomes: The Year's Best Culinary Novels
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Girlfriends' Night Out!
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Holiday shopping, wine tasting and COG night!
Thursday, December 7 at 7 PM
Red, White and Brew
Mt. Holly, NJ
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Want "The Dish" on Melissa?
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Melissa Jacobs has been chosen to be part of "The Dish," a new segment on NBC-10's 10! Show. Real women talking about real issues. Love, life - but not linguine!
Lori Wilson, co-host of 10! Show, will chat with a rotating cast of women who will appear in this new, special segment which will air during the regular show.
Tune in to see the premiere of "The Dish."
Monday, October 9 at 10 AM on Philadelphia's NBC-10.
If you like what you see, please go to www.nbc10.com and click on the 10! Show icon for viewer feedback.
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Fall 2006 Schedule of Appearances
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Me and L3 are hitting the road! Well, the road is Route 70. It's a highway in South Jersey. Please join me at one of the fabu events, where I'll be talking about Love, Life and Linguine, and Lexi James and the Council of Girlfriends, and anything else I can think of.
xoxo
Melissa |
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For the Beach: A Feast of Culinary Novels
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Philadelphia Inquirer
July 20, 2006
By Dianna Marder
Inquirer Staff Writer
In 1991, I made the mistake of reading Amy Tan's novel The Kitchen God's Wife, on the beach at Barnegat Light.
And I'm still kicking myself.
I anticipated a wrenching story of mother-daughter angst, and it was that. But who knew the mother would stop so many times along the back roads she traveled in her escape from China - to make dumplings?
The author's vivid descriptions left me drooling, but the closest Chinese restaurant was a seven-mile traffic jam away. And it was extremely mediocre.
Foodies, don't let this happen to you.
To help you pack wisely for your time at the beach/mountain/family reunion, here is a short list of titles designed to stimulate your literary appetite and anticipate your cravings. |
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Phillyist Interview, June 27, 2006
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Love, sex, the Jersey shore and damn good pasta.
What else could you ask for in a summer beach read? That's why we sat down to chat with Melissa Jacobs, author of Love Life and Linguine, about her new book set in Philadelphia and South Jersey.
Read more at http://www.phillyist.com/archives/interview/
Or go to www.phillyist.com and search for "Melissa Jacobs" |
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Men, Madness and Matzo Balls?
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Jewish Exponent
June 8, 2006
Stars of David by Michael Elkin |
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5 Best Books to Snag a Date
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Jetty Magazine, a publication of The Asbury Park Press
#1: ‘Love, Life and Linguine’
By Melissa Jacobs
After restaurant consultant Mimi Louis catches her boyfriend cheating, she finds herself with a life she hadn’t planned for — a new job, new living arrangements and two unlikely new suitors. Reason to read: Romance plus food equals a great dish. (Avon Trade Paperbacks, $12.95)
www.jettymag.com/summer2006/naked/books.html |
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Readers' Reviews
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May, 2006
"An absolutely delicious book to read."
"Get out your fork and dig into L3!" |
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Romance Junkies Review
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May, 2006
www.romancejunkies.com
Four Out Of Five Ribbons! |
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To S. Jersey, with love
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Philadelphia Business Journal, April, 2006
by Peter Van Allen
A writer with Cherry Hill roots has written what she says is a love song to her home state. |
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Love, Life and South Jersey
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New Jersey Monthly magazine, April 2006
by Jen A. Miller
When Melissa Jacobs started her second novel, she deecided she needed a change. Instead of writing in her mother's basement, which is where her first book, Lexi James and the Council of Girlfriends, was born, she rented a studio overlooking Collingswood's historic downtown.
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Back for second helpings, Melissa Jacobs adds spice to the chick lit genre
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Back for second helpings, Melissa Jacobs adds spice to the chick lit genre
Romantic Times Book Club Magazine
April, 2006
by Lauren Spielberg
There's chick lit. Hen lit. Even lad lit. Now Melissa Jacobs, author of
last year's Lexi James and the Council of Girlfriends, treats readers to a
delectable new sub-genre: food lit. |
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Writing The World of Women
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Jewish Exponent
May, 2005
by Carin M. Smilk
Meet Lexi James. She's 33, single, and a public-relations executive with a corner office in Center City and an apartment in Rittenhouse Square. She loves lattes, Sunday brunch, 350-thread count sheets and fine shoes. Oh, and she¹s completely committed to the one thing that never fails her - the Council of Girlfriends (aka the COG), a group of four best friends she bares her soul to on a regular basis. |
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Heartbreak and Hope
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Philadelphia Business Journal
by Peter Van Allen
May, 2005
Novelist Melissa Jacobs, author of "Lexi James and the Council of Girlfriends" published in April by Avon Trade, likes to think of Philadelphia as a person. Specifically, a female. |
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Romance Reader Review: LJATCOG
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The Romance Reader
May, 2005
Five out of Five Hearts!
"In this refreshing approach to angst ridden thirty-somethings, Melissa Jacobs explores the relationships between men, women and what happens when they overlap. It's quite nice to have such a strong heroine in this age of simpering people-pleasing female leads." |
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