A Walk in the Snark [Kindle Edition]

Rachel Thompson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 23, 2011

• ***This Memorial Day Weekend only, the book is FREE! as a ginormous THANK YOU for your wonderful support!!*** 
• Thank YOU for making A Walk In The Snark a #1 Bestseller on multiple charts Motherhood, Parenting & Family, Family Relationships, Advice/How-To, Women's Studies and more! AND a Top 100 Overall Paid bestseller (#400)!
• Be forewarned -- the material in this book has been called controversial in nature. It is based on the author's popular blog. There are recurrent themes regarding men and women, love and loss. 
• It's not ALL funny, but it IS all honest. Can you handle the snark? 

Sometimes I think I'm too jaded. Then I think no, it's just the lighting.

Praise for A Walk In The Snark -- now a #1 Bestseller! 

5 of 5 stars!

--The commonalities we all share is what makes this book spark to life.

Tony Eldridge, Author, The Samson Effect

--Thank you for making the lives of women and men more intelligible, Rachel, and for making us laugh at ourselves! 

Berit Ellingsen, Author, The Empty City

• Rachel believes "Men are from Seinfeld, Women are from Friends," and so do her legions of fans. She dares to ask "Why do men want to change the world, but can't change a roll of toilet paper?" 
• Drawing on her decades (#deargod has it been that long?) of marriage, friendships, and past relationships, Rachel's specialty is observing male behavior and dissecting it with humor (Shopping is NOT a Verb). Think of her as the Scientist of Snark...without the ugly white lab coat #asif

Husband: Mumble, mumble, mumble.

Daughter: What?

Me: It's okay. I speak husband.

See why everyone is buying this book! Mancode, Chickspeak, and much, much more! 

See why critics love it! 

More praise: 

5/5 Stars: 

Crisp, cutting, and caffeinated. A gem of a read.

~Rebecca Tsaros Dickson, Author, I Could Tell You Stories; Editor-In-Chief, Indie Ink

The author's wicked sense of humor sprinkles every day stories of relationship angst with spicy hot pepper with keeping it real adventure.

~Bonnie Jean Adams, Chicago Culture And Events Examiner 

• If you want to laugh, cry, and risk blowing coffee out of your nose at Rachel's unique take on life (Manesia, anyone), you've GOT to buy this book today! 

Want to know why this book reached #1 on the Kindle Motherhood list (and Parenting & Families, and Women's Studies) and is still a mainstay months and months later? 

Buy it! 

• ***Want more of Rachel's unique brand of humor? Purchase her latest release: The Mancode: Exposed, already a #1 Kindle Top 100 Paid bestseller! 

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

You can find Rachel most days on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, providing social media tips on her own interactive Twitter stream and popular blog, consulting with social media clients (See BadRedhead Media), or promoting her books A Walk In The Snark and The Mancode: Exposed, both Kindle bestsellers!

She also cowrote Dollars & Sense: The Definitive Guide To Self-Publishing. 
 
Rachel lives in the OC, aka Orange County, CA (home of Disneyland). Somewhere in there, this redhead in a sea of blondes fits in being a full-time wife and mom to her two young children and just one husband. She loves coffee, the occasional dirty martini, and sleep. 
 
Rachel was profiled by Sean Gardner (April, 2011) in the Huffington Post Books section, regarding social media and ePublishing. Check it out! 

Product Details

• File Size: 441 KB
• Print Length: 150 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004KKZ3GC
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
  • #1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Advice & How-to > Parenting & Families > Family Relationships > Motherhood

More About the Author

I'm a chick who writes stuff that makes you laugh. My first book A Walk In The Snark hit #1 on the Kindle Motherhood list September, 2011 (do you think they know I talk about sex? Shhh.). It's since hit about oh, heck--it's a chart mainstay now! I've been nominated for Funniest Blog, Best Humor Writer & Redhead Who Makes A Killer Dirty Martini (okay, I made the last one up, but it's true. Honest.).

I released The Mancode: Exposed right after Thanksgiving 2011. It became a #1 bestseller and within one month of release, made the Top 100 overall Paid list & #1 on three or four other lists where sex & cursing probably aren't tolerated.

Two books of snarky goodness, baby.

NOTE: I write satire. A sense of humor is required. If you don't have one, don't buy my books. See ya. Bye.

I've been told I write in the style of that Dickens guy. Kidding.

I'm a mom, wife, and a recovering pharmaceuticals rep. It's been a long process but I'm doing okay, thanks.

Always fascinated by relationships, I write about how men (The Mancode) and women (Chickspeak) approach most things differently. I've also thrown in a few tidbits about marriage, kids, work life, being a mom, living in the OC (ya know-being a pale redhead living in a sea of blondes), coffee, and vodka. Not necessarily in that order, depending on the day.

I DON'T GIVE ADVICE. Don't read my books to find advice about how to be sweet or nice. I'm pretty much allergic to both of those words. Actually don't read my books for advice on anything. (My lawyer made me put that in just in case you know, you thought I could save your marriage or something - not).

Or, if you are looking for some light, heartfelt humor on everyday life (Erma Bombeck-style), well, I'm really not your girl, either. Nothin' homespun about the Queen of Snark, baby. Mostly I just laugh at stuff and make up words (See "Refrigeratoritis and Manesia.") Yet somehow it all seems to work.

And don't call me cute. (Hint: Babies and puppies are cute. Grown women are soooo not.)

Special note to men: I write frequently about "The Mancode"--like how you guys do goofy stuff and we women try, and often fail, to understand. (Um, change the toilet paper roll much? Yeah, that's what I thought.) If that offends your sensibilities, this may not be the book for you. Yeah, I'm crushed.

Like everyone, I've also had some rough times. I share those with you, too. Life can't always be martinis and beaches. Wait, this is the OC (Orange County, CA, for those of you from Canada, or people on the East Coast who don't know California beyond LA). Naw, not even here.

So, welcome to RachelintheOC.

Now go read an essay or two and find something to laugh at, would ya?

I have to go help my husband find the butter. Again.


If you want something completely different from me, check out the horror anthology, THE EVIL WITHIN, released October, 2011. All the stories are sssscary. Mine is called THERE ARE NO MONSTERS. Boo.)