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New York, NY- Are you a woman whose life is so hectic, fast-paced and super-busy that an adult diaper is starting to look like a time saving device? Then national bestselling author Karen Quinn invites you to celebrate her forthcoming novel, Wife in the Fast Lane, by entering her new contest for busy women only!

Share your thoughts on what your life in the fast lane is like and you could win one of dozens of prizes, including a $2000 gift certificate to Canyon Ranch Spa and a 14K gold charm bracelet.

To enter the contest or learn more about the rules, log onto http://www.wifeinthefastlane.com. The deadline for entry is February 16, 2007.

Here is how busy women have been describing their life in the fast lane:

I knew I was living in the fast lane when…

I was so busy working I didn't even have time to pee. That astronaut was on to something with her adult diaper time saving idea!

My husband asked me what my favorite sexual fantasy was and I told him, “you making love to me without waking me up.”

My three year old daughter insisted on calling her playroom her “office.”

I was talking on the phone and forgot who I was talking to and why we were talking.

I returned from one too many business trips and my three-year-old greeted me as “Aunt Mom.”

I surprised my son by picking him up at school and his first question was, did his nanny die?

Submit your entry in by February 16, 2007. Then look for Karen’s new book, Wife in the Fast Lane, (ISBN: 978-0-7432-9396-7; $14.00 trade paperback, 336 pages, Simon and Schuster), when it launches March 13, 2007. Her newest novel is the much anticipated follow-up to her national bestseller, The Ivy Chronicles (soon to be released as a major motion picture).

In Wife in the Fast Lane, Karen revisits the harried and often unintentionally hilarious world of the working woman extraordinaire who struggles to manage a career, husband, kids, school, business and more all while keeping her sanity in check. Publisher’s Weekly has already raved that Wife in the Fast Lane is “a delightful story” that’s “good fun up to its happy ending!”

Karen Quinn is the author of the national bestseller The Ivy Chronicles a hilarious take on the terminally privileged, over-the-top world where even tots carry resumes all in an attempt to get into... the finest pre-schools! Karen has been featured by hundreds of media outlets worldwide including The New York Times, The Chicago Sun Times, The Boston Globe, Women’s Day, Redbook, ABC’s 20/20 and The View. For more information visit: http://www.karenquinn.net

Karen Quinn Bio

How far would you go to get your child into a top-notch kindergarten? For New Yorkers, the answer could well be: 'I hired an actor to pretend to be my husband, so we'd look like a traditional family for the interviews. Then when my daughter got into the school, I arranged a fake divorce.'

Welcome to elite Manhattan schools, where four-year-olds have resumes, attempts to buy your way in (disguised as donations) are the norm and at least ten children vie for every single spot. This provides the material for the The Ivy Chronicles, a thinly veiled tell-all from author Karen Quinn's own life.

Like the book's protagonist, Ivy, Karen was reengineered out of her big corporate job and started a business called Smart City Kids to help Manhattanites get their little darlings in the city’s best schools. After she left the business, she wrote a book inspired by her experience guiding families through the NYC school admissions nightmare. The movie rights to the book were optioned by Warner Brothers.

Karen no longer advises families on school admissions. She is now a full-time writer who lives in NYC with her husband, two children, and two cats. Her second book, Wife in the Fast Lane, will be published by Simon & Schuster on March 13, 2007. It is a satire about a highly accomplished woman (married to an equally accomplished man) whose balls are dropping left and right as she juggles love, parenting, work, and the various responsibilities of modern life. Karen says it was inspired by many of the mothers she worked for when running Smart City Kids, as well as her own life, her friends' lives, and the lives of every woman she has ever met (and will probably ever will meet in the future). Welcome to the 21st Century!

Karen has appeared on 20/20, The View, The Daily Buzz. Her first book was selected as a Richard & Judy summer read (the equivalent of being selected for the Oprah Book Club in the UK). She has been on the Joan Hamburg show, the USA Network, and Doug Stephan's Good Day. She has received coverage in The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Redbook, and Women's Day, to name a few.