About the Author
Elaine Ambrose
Elaine Ambrose is a #1 bestselling author of eight books, including Midlife Happy Hour, Menopause Sucks and Midlife Cabernet, and a syndicated blogger on several online sites. She organizes professional writing retreats with acclaimed faculty, and she is a popular motivational speaker at college commencement ceremonies, writing conferences, workshops, retreats, book clubs, and live comedy shows.
Her latest release is Midlife Happy Hour, the sequel to the award-winning Midlife Cabernet, and includes words of wisdom and humorous anecdotes for women who survived careers, kids, and chaos and deserve to have fun at happy hour.
In 2014, Ambrose released a collection of humorous essays titled Midlife Cabernet. The book won a Silver Medal for Humor from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) and the First Place for Humor from the North American Book Awards. Publishers Weekly wrote that the book is "laugh-out-loud funny." Foreword Reviews wrote that Midlife Cabernet is "Erma Bombeckesque ... an argument for joy." In January 2015, the book ranked #1 in sales in the humor category on Amazon.com and sold more than 8,000 copies.
Ambrose was voted as one of the top three authors in the "Best of Treasure Valley" competition sponsored by The Idaho Statesman.
Ambrose is an internationally recognized syndicated blogger.
In 2014, she authored a humorous post on The Huffington Post that went viral with more than 700,000 likes. The post, titled Don't Fart During an MRI was reprinted in several countries in various languages and continues to gain fans. The post was named as of one of the Top Ten Most-Read Posts in the Ten-Year History of The Huffington Post. Ambrose was interviewed live from New York, Intrerview on Huffington Post Live-Streaming Network.
Another post on her blog, My Mother's Body Got Lost, was chosen as a winning entry in the Voices of the Year Competition sponsored by BlogHer. Ambrose will present her essay at the conference in New York in July 2015.
In 2008, Ambrose collaborated with author Joanne Kimes to write Menopause Sucks. Published by Adams Media, the book continues to sell well and receive positive reviews.
Ambrose is the founder and facilitator of the quarterly Women, Words, and Wine Writing Retreat as well as the annual Write by the River Retreats sponsored by her business, Mill Park Publishing. Write by the River Retreats have featured New York Times bestselling authors Anthony Doerr, AK Turner, Jennifer Basye Sander, and Whiting award winner Alan Heathcock.
She spoke in 2014 at the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop in Dayton, Ohio, and has been invited to present a writing workshop at the 2016 conference. She was a speaker at the first annual BAM Bloggers at Midlife Conference in 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a regular speaker and workshop leader at the Idaho Writers Guild Rend