New E-books by MISS MANNERS®

(February 3, 2015) KANSAS CITY, Mo. – 

Three original Miss Manners mini e-books are being published by Andrews McMeel Publishing/Universal Uclick. The titles, prompted by questions most commonly posted to Miss Manners, are Miss Manners: On Endless Texting, Miss Manners: On Unabashed Aging and Miss Manners: On Placid Pregnancy.   

 

Judith Martin, who created the Miss Manners newspaper column in 1978, is author of more than a dozen books and has been hailed by George Will as “the National Bureau of Standards” and by Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) as “an extremely useful philosopher.”

 

Each 50-page Miss Manners e-book is available for $2.99 wherever e-books are sold, including Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks and Barnes & Noble Nook. For more information, visit andrewsmcmeel.com/books/comics-and-humor/udig/miss-manners.

 

In creating these easily accessible books, Ms. Martin has been joined by her co-columnists (and perfect children) Nicholas and Jacobina Martin.

 

“As for anyone who is not currently busy texting, giving birth (or being born), or growing older—we’ll get to you,” the Manners family promised.

           

·       Miss Manners: On Endless Texting by Judith Martin and Nicholas Martin  The underlying rules about communication are not obsolete, but they must be applied to life’s new situations. Miss Manners proclaims a text message to be an electronic equivalent of a Post-it note and about as “serious in nature as the hastily written note passed in class.” Under what circumstances can one offer an apology or an invitation electronically? What about condolences or proposals? It’s not too late for technology and civility to coexist, and Miss Manners leads the way with a call to texting etiquette.

·       Miss Manners: On Unabashed Aging by Judith Martin  It’s time for Americans who are growing older to regain their respect and self-respect. Living a long life is no embarrassment. The Los Angeles Times reports that “Miss Manners is a brisk and witty social critic whose subject is etiquette, a topic she uses as a trampoline, achieving more bounce per square inch of surface than one would think possible.” In this mini book, Miss Manners directly confronts the puritanical pretense that no one should admit to growing older.

 

·       Miss Manners: On Placid Pregnancy by Judith Martin and Jacobina Martin – Is it acceptable to give parenting advice to your daughter-in-law? To a stranger on the bus? Must one endure co-worker baby showers? As usual, “opinionated, astringent, and hilarious” (Cosmopolitan), Miss Manners compares pregnant women to low-tier celebrities, and issues pronouncements on the proper etiquette for enduring the freelance attention they attract. After all, Miss Manners reminds them, they will soon be grateful for babysitters.

Born a perfect lady in an imperfect society, Miss Manners is the pioneer mother of today’s civility movement. Judith Martin’s Miss Manners newspaper column, distributed thrice-weekly by Universal Uclick, is carried in hundreds of newspapers and online outlets in the United States and abroad. At a 2005 White House ceremony, Judith Martin was awarded the National Humanities Medal in recognition of her role as America’s foremost etiquette columnist and author. In 2015 she received the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Mrs. Martin is also a novelist, journalist and frequent lecturer and guest on national television and radio shows. As a reporter, feature writer and critic, she spent 25 years at The Washington Post, where she was one of the original members of the Style and Weekend sections.

Jacobina Martin teaches improv and sketch comedy at The Second City Training Center in Chicago. Jacobina is a graduate of Harvard College and received a master’s degree from The Actors’ Studio at The New School in New York. An actress, director and writer, she has worked in professional theater since the age of 12. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Ronald Kroll, a special education teacher, and their perfect daughter, Greta.

Nicholas Ivor Martin is also the author of The Opera Manual (Scarecrow Press, 2013). He is the director of operations and special initiatives at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and is a frequent lecturer. A graduate of Harvard College, Nicholas previously worked as a policy analyst at The White House and as publisher of The Washington Monthly. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Rebecca Toon, who teaches at The Old Town School of Folk Music, and their perfect daughter, August.

 

A product of Andrews McMeel Publishing and Universal Uclick/GoComics, Udig offers short, curated, collectible e-books. For a complete list of titles, please visit http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/books/comics-and-humor/udig

 

The Miss Manners column is available online at uexpress.com/miss-manners.

 

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NOTE: Judith, Jacobina and Nicholas Martin are available for interviews. Contact Julie Halper at 816.581.7658 or jhalper@amuniversal.com.