The Mireille Watch

We’ve been trying to keep up with the adventures of Mireille Guiliano, best selling author of two books, French Women Don’t Get Fat and French Women for All Seasons, two inspirational weight, health, and style books that are wonderfully written and have sold millions of hard copy texts. Only recently has French Women Don’t Get Fat gone into paperback, introducing millions more to her philosophy, which is essentially bien dans sa peau (living well with yourself, with your skin). A recent check showed that the paperback version appeared on a half dozen or more best selling lists, and the last time we looked it was #7 on the important New York Times list. Keeping up with petite femme isn’t easy, and she seems omnipresent, appearing on Bloomberg’s Night Talk, Fox News, Today Show (several times), the lecture circuit, radio shows, newspaper and magazine interviews. In addition, she works 12 to 18 hours a day. She’s found time to write for her online program (www.fwdgf.com); to pen the introduction to the “Gourmandes”/Appetite chapter in Les Parisiennes (it’s also a gorgeous photography text published by Flammarion); to write a few guest essays for Newsweek and for Nespresso (a magazine with two million circulation and published in several languages), as well as writing her quarterly “Wining and Dining” column with her husband Edward for this magazine. But this isn’t all. Guiliano is busy writing two more books, the first of which was started last year, and the titles of which are still under wraps. One is due for publication in November 2008, and the other for Spring 2009. Mireille Guiliano is a salvation not only to the millions who buy her books, but to the ailing publishing industry. Her books, moreover, have been published in dozens of different languages, making her more invaluable to her publisher, Knopf, which has to see Guiliano as an industry unto herself. www.mireilleguiliano.com