Author Talk: Emma Rosenblum

Join us at Bedford Books as we celebrate the launch of Mean Moms with author Emma Rosenblum, in conversation with Andrea Lavinthal, Executive Director of PEOPLE magazine. Books will be available for purchase and signing, and light refreshments will be served. We can’t wait to see you there!

About the book:

ENTER THE WORLD OF RICH MANHATTAN MOM-ING…

Meet Frost, Morgan, and Belle—a wealthy, gorgeous group of New York City moms, the queen bees of downtown Manhattan. Their children attend Atherton Academy, the top private school in the city, and their social lives revolve around elaborate themed parties. On the first day of school, the arrival of a new mom and mysterious beauty from Miami, Sofia, shakes up their world. When Sofia quickly integrates herself into their clique, inexplicably bad things start to happen to the women. Is someone at school out to get them?

Spanning the course of one eventful school year in New York, Mean Moms is part satire of upper-crust mom-ing and part mystery, interrogating the line between friendship and jealousy, and getting at the question: What would happen if the woman standing next to you at school pickup was actually a sociopath?

About Emma Rosenblum:

Emma Rosenblum is the national bestselling author of Bad Summer People, Very Bad Company, and Mean Moms. She's the former chief content officer at Bustle Digital Group, overseeing content and strategy for BDG’s editorial portfolios. Prior to BDG, Emma served as the executive editor of ELLE. Previously Rosenblum was a senior editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, and before that a senior editor at Glamour. She began her career at New York magazine. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.

About Andrea Lavinthal:

Andrea Lavinthal is the Executive Director, Special Integrated Projects at PEOPLE, where she oversees the brand’s franchises including Sexiest Man Alive and The Beautiful Issue, plus execution of digital issues, editorial partnerships, events and campaigns.

With over 20 years of experience in media, Andrea is an authority in the beauty, style, and pop culture space and has appeared on national television shows including Today, E! News, Good Morning America, The Drew Barrymore Show, and Access Hollywood.

She co-hosted the PEOPLE in the ’90s podcast, and regularly appears on top-ranked podcasts including The Bright Side, Lady Gang, Not Skinny But Not Fat, Add to Cart, Fat Mascara, and Breaking Beauty.

Before joining PEOPLE as the Style and Beauty Director in 2012, Andrea spent almost a decade at Cosmopolitan, where, in addition to writing features about beauty, she helped launch Cosmo Radio on SiriusXM and started the brand’s first-ever beauty blog.

She graduated with a BA in Magazine Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and lives in Connecticut (but is a proud New Jersey native).

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