See Jane Date
by Melissa Senate

A FANCY AFFAIR BRIDAL SALON
FOREST HILLS, QUEENS
"Did you know that one of your hips is higher than the other?" the seamstress asked me in a totally conversational tone. The bridesmaid to my left eyed me in the mirror, then her gaze dropped to my hips. "I didn't," I said. "I never knew that. But I'm glad you told me." The seamstress had the decency to look embarrassed. She ducked her head back down and continued pinning. Perhaps that had been the reason why Blind Dates One, Two and Three hadn't been interested. It wasn't the smoking, after all. It was my Hip Issue. And just my luck that Blind Date Four was with a doctor, whose business it was to notice such deformities.

SEE JANE DATE will speak to singles everywhere. At once warm and witty, this look into the life of twenty-eight- year-old assistant editor Jane Gregg, screams, "You are not alone!" Case in point: See Jane... - Endure two months of bridesmaid hell for her younger cousin's wedding. - Brilliantly dodge being fixed up with Grammy's next-door neighbor by fibbing that she, um, already HAS a boyfriend. - Date... like crazy to find one suitable guy to bring to said wedding. Okay, find one suitable guy to LOVE. Was that so much to ask?

Melissa Senate's Bio

A summer baby born in a Catskills bungalow colony ("Dirty Dancing," anyone?) and raised in New York City and New Jersey, thirty-something Melissa Senate lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the setting for See Jane Date, her debut novel. After ten years as a romance novel editor (senior editor at Silhouette Books), and a couple of years as a senior editor of children's and young adult fiction (editing books by R.L. Stine and Francine Pascal), Melissa decided to drop out of corporate life and to concentrate on writing fiction and studying for a master's degree in English. Visit Melissa's website at melissasenate.com, check out interviews, her serialized novella, and the latest about Red Dress Ink at reddressink.com and feel free to email her at melissasenate@aol.com.