Entertaining First Novel Depicts the Ups and Downs of Life on Craigslist

New York, NY, January 19, 2011 --(PR.com)-- The 50 million monthly American users of Craigslist along with the hundreds of millions of international users in 55 countries can finally read a cool, quirky e-book about their trials and tribulations on the site that media loves to hate and folks love to use.

My life on Craigslist is an Award Winning Finalist of USA BOOK NEWS for Women Fiction & Chick Lit 2011, awarded by USA BOOK News, a national award organization based in Los Angeles, CA.

The novel is aimed at the mainstream young American women and men, high on hopes and low on cash. Written in the form of a memoir, it's the funny, touching, and riveting story of a single girl in the big city who navigates Craigslist as her only free window to the world.

“The idea to write this book came to me one day when I went to Barnes and Nobles to look for a novel that would speak about my own experiences, and do so with a mix of humor and depth. Besides the tons of chick lit about the single gal in the big city who is more adept at shopping than relationships, I found very little of interest,” said Alexandra Ares. “There are millions of people with a life on Craigslist, both female and male, and the ones who aren’t there yet, are curious to see how it’s like. It's wild! And, we like it or not, it's a mirror of what America is today. Also there are millions of people who lost their jobs in the last couple of years and had to rely on a free website like Craigslist to do pretty much everything. So I wanted to write a book for them.”

Emily Thompson is a 25 years-old girl with a passion for contemporary art and a desire to surpass her modest condition as a bank teller in Buffalo’s suburbs. One year after she moves to trendy East Village in New York City, where she lands a job in an art gallery and an artist boyfriend, her life is thrown in an uproar when she loses everything: her job, her boyfriend, who cheats on her with a girl he met online, and her friends, who all move out of New York because of the Great Recession.

Suddenly alone, with no boyfriend, no money in the bank (she only worked for cash and has no unemployment benefits), no friends and a family far away, Emily starts to live vicariously through Craigslist in an anxious search for a love connection and a work break. On that very site, Craigslist, she finds dates, an unexpected luxury sailboat trip and free theater tickets, an interesting cast of roommates and dates, one night stands and temporary jobs that all first seem like heaven and turn out to be hell. With each new experience she is either the con or the conned, and learns something about life and about herself. When things spiral out of control, Emily discovers the double edge of fame, morals, and the unexpected turn of fortunes in New York.

“So much of what occurs is beautifully tied up. I adored it. The Apatow films don’t do it better. This book is a D-flawless diamond, small but utterly perfect.” - Monique Raphel High, best-selling novelist

"Very cool. I can totally identify with Emily/Swan: Jobless, looking for a roommate, zero money in the bank, and above all desperately seeking some sort of sexual or intimate connection that would numb the pain of this lonely existence. Bravo!"
Ismael Corpas, Craigslist User

My Life on Craigslist is available for sale as an E-book and Paperback on Amazon, B&N, iTunes, Indie Bound, Borders, etc.

In order to view the e-book, download Kindle of PC, NOOK for PC, Adobe Digital Editions and other free software.

About The Author

Alexandra Ares is a New York writer, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, TV producer/director, and publisher of Manhattan Chronicles. She was born in Bucharest, Romania, now part of the European Union. Ares studied Theater at the prestigious University of Theater and Cinema in Bucharest and worked as a Theater Critic for the Romanian National Television traveling extensively throughout Europe before she moved to New York in 1998. Ares is the author of several books published in Europe: Stranded in the Past (short stories); Sam Shepard: a Rebel of Rigoris Mortis (nonfiction); Waking Beauty (a full length play), The Men Store (short plays) and the best-seller novel Dream Junkies translated in Romanian at the top publishing house in Romania, Polirom (2008).

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E-mail: AlexandraAres@gmail.com
Phone: 917-497-1601
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Publisher: Smart Media New York.
Printed and distributed by Create Space.
Category: Fiction.
Format: Ebook and Paperback
On Sale: January 2011
E book Price: $3.99
Paperback Price: $13,99
Amazon and B&N

Review Copies and Interviews Available