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Trashionista reader Jenny Gardiner's humorous women's fiction manuscript, Sleeping With Ward Cleaver, is a finalist in the American Title contest (modeled on American Idol!), the prize for which is a publishing contract!

Over the next six months, voting will be conducted for two weeks per month via the Romantic Times website, with low-voting finalists being eliminated each round. Voting dates are Oct 16 (i.e. today!) -29, Nov 13-26, Dec 18-31, Jan 22-Feb 4, Feb. 19-Mar 4. So why not support a Trashionista and cast your vote today!

Carry on over the cut for more about Jenny's book (it sounds great) or read an extract here.

Sleeping With Ward Cleaver is a coming-of-middle-age novel about Claire Doolittle, who realizes her life hasn't quite met up with her expectations. Overwhelmed with the demands of motherhood and life in general, it doesn't help that the funny, romantic and thoughtful man she once married has turned into a real-life version of Ward Cleaver, the famously dull, bossy father from the 1950's sitcom Leave it to Beaver. And last person in the world Claire ever imagined having to sleep with for the rest of her life is a man whose sex appeal more closely resembles that of George Washington than George Clooney.

Throw in an ex-fiance who returns via email to try to woo Claire back with promises of what was, and a sexy young colleague of husband Jack's, whom Claire suspects of some sort of hanky panky, and you having the makings for a mid-life crisis that threatens to plunge Claire's world into chaos.

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