SUSAN KONIG is a mother of four and freelance writer whose work has appeared in publications including The Washington Post, National Review, The New York Post, Travel & Leisure, Ladies Home Journal, Seventeen, and Us. She contributes regularly to Catholic Digest and National Review Online. She lives with her family in the Hudson Valley.
Praise for I Wear the Maternity Pants in This Family:
"Konig is an exceptional humorist on the order of Erma Bombeck and Jean Kerr. "
–Library Journal
Praise for Why Animals Sleep So Close to the Road (And
Other Lies I Tell My Children):
“Konig’s debut is downright Bombeckian. . . . Hilarious…brilliant.”
–USA Today
“Konig is an exceptional humorist on the order of Erma Bombeck and Jean Kerr.”
–Library Journal
“As a psychologist, I can’t recommend lying to your children. But, as a psychologist, I can recommend laughter, and this book will tickle your funny bone in every chapter.”
–Dr. Joyce Brothers
“Despite its humorous tone, readers will often be touched by the more sensitive moments. . . . Though this debut will hold particular interest for harried parents, even single women will be delighted by this amusing glimpse into American family life.”
–Publishers Weekly
“Like many journalists who become full-time moms, Susan Konig wrote a book about it. Yet, unlike most of the recent onslaught of such titles, hers is unpretentious and even funny. Konig tells it like it is.”
–New York Post
“Give it to the mother you want to make smile.”
–National Review
“Laugh-out-loud hilarious . . . Susan Konig tells the truth about exactly what you’re in for when you have kids.”
–Sandi Kahn Shelton, author of Preschool Confidential and What Comes After Crazy
“Thank you, thank you, Susan Konig, for telling the truth about American women. . . . How refreshing to encounter a real-world mom who doesn’t pretend she’s all that.”
–Elizabeth Cohen, author of The House on Beartown Road
“Readers will cringe in fear and burst with delight at the endless juggling, improvisation, and reinventing Konig needs to keep her sanity, her marriage, and her kids in one place.”
–Bruce Stockler, author of I Sleep at Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets
