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Stacey Ballis manages to be irreverent, unflinching, sexy, and somehow very sweet. She is truly a writer to watch.

Laura Caldwell, author ofThe Night I Got LuckyandLook Closely

PRAISE FOR Room for Improvement

I adored everything about itbest of all, the humor is pervasive throughout the book. For those who say chick lit is played out, all I can say is, think again. Stacey Ballis proves the genre can be funny, honest, clever, real, and most importantly, totally fresh.

Jennifer Lancaster, author of Bitter is the New Black

More fun than a Trading Spaces marathon. One of the seasons best. The Washington Post Book World

Rife with humoralways earthy, often bawdy, unwaveringly forthright humor. Chicago Sun-Times

Self-proclaimed home-improvement junkie and author Ballis has written a laugh-out-loud novel that will appeal to HGTV devotees as well as those who like their chick lit on the sexy side. One of the summers hot reads for the beach. Library Journal

In her third outing, Ballis offers up a frothy, fun send-up of reality TV. Readers will have a blast watching Lily and her friends try to figure out what their priorities are in this lighthearted tale.

Booklist

Sleeping Over

Ballis presents a refreshingly realistic approach to relationships and the things that test (and often break) them. Balliss sophomore effort will please readers who want something more than fairy-tale romance. Booklist

Sleeping Over will have you laughing, crying, and planning your next girls night out. This is the first novel I have read by Stacey Ballis, but I guarantee it wont be the last!

Romance Reader at Heart

This engaging story delivers everything you ask from a great read: it makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you feel. Sleeping Over gets my highest recommendation.

Romance Divas

Inappropriate Men

An insightful and hilarious journey into the life and mind of Chicagoan Sidney Stein. Todays Chicago Woman

Balliss debut is a witty tale of a thirtysomething who unexpectedly has to start the search for love all over again. Booklist

Stacey Balliss debut novel is a funny, smart book about love, heartbreak, and all the experiences in between.

Chatelaine (also named Inappropriate Men one of their Seven Sizzling Summer Reads for 2004)

Without a doubt, Inappropriate Men is one of the best books of 2004. Stacey Ballis has a way with words. Effortlessly, she makes them exciting and pulls the reader into the life of one of the most engaging characters ever created, Sidney Stein.

A Romance Review

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Copyright 2007 by Stacey Ballis.

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PRINTING HISTORY Berkley trade paperback edition / March 2007

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ballis, Stacey.
The spinster sisters / Stacey Ballis.Berkley trade paperback ed.
p. cm.

eISBN : 978-0-425-21356-8

3. Dating servicesFiction. I. Title.

PS3602.A624S65 2007
813.6dc22 2006031997

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This book is dedicated with much love to my parents, Stephen and Elizabeth Ballis.

You have always embodied the best in what it means to be a family, including the addition of friends who feel like family. You gave me the best gift anyone ever has, you made me a sister. Everything there is, there is because of you. Everything I do, I do because you empower me. The heart and soul of all my words begins with you both. LAS

For Deborah, Who has always been my best friend, my strongest supporter, my most challenging opponent, and my conscience. Whatever else I do, my favorite job is being your older, shorter, sister.

For Peggy, Sister by Choice since 1973. Thanks for over thirty years of love and encouragement, for scratching all those damn mosquito bites and teaching me double solitaire and a couple of adventures at Northern we probably shouldnt talk about. This particular adventure began with your title, and I hope I did you proud.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Is anyone still reading these? Really? I thought not. I could thank just about anyone here, including Archduke Ferdinand, and I doubt it would cause a ripple.

But, for those of you who I do know actually stop here... a couple of heartfelt thanks.

To my amazing family, Mom and Dad, Deborah and Jonnie, you all know how much I love you. Ditto friends.

Scott Mendel, the worlds best agent and dear friend and partner... what a delight to have you with me on this journey.

Christine Zika, ber-patient editor, for making the ladies real as well as lovely.

Jennifer Novak, for working miracles.

And for all my sisters, and you know who you are, thank you for everything!

TheSpinsterSistersThe New Face of Single

by Bethany Jacobs

Jodi and Jill Spingold know a lot about being single. In fact, these siblings have made a career out of it. Jodi (thirty-four, with a degree in journalism), and Jill (thirty-two, with a degree in marketing and business), are riding the very lucrative self-help wave, and their mission is to empower single women everywhere. Their four-year-old corporation, Spinster Inc., is in fact made up of several different smaller business ventures. Their noon-to-two satellite radio show,

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