Lulu.com Author Appears on Oprah

Lulu.com Author Appears on Oprah

Show discusses "The Sisterhood of Motherhood"

RALEIGH, N.C., April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Melinda Roberts, author of "Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood," has landed an interview on today's Oprah Winfrey Show. Roberts, a Silicon Valley mother of three has turned the challenges and setbacks in her life into this brutally funny and endearingly honest chronicle of family life. Roberts self-published the book with Lulu.com, the marketplace for digital content on the Internet.

"Mommy Confidential" is adapted from Melinda Roberts' weblog, The Mommy Blog, and lets readers catch a glimpse of a chapter in her life in which she hilariously tries to survive. As a native Chicagoan turned Californian, she struggles with giving birth to three children in four years, divorcing her husband, beginning and ending a career during the tech boom of Silicon Valley, as well as a lingering mortgage. "What surprised and pleased me about Lulu.com," said Roberts "is that the author has total control over the process form start to finish -- that was important for me."

Melinda Roberts embodies all that is Lulu.com: "It's the most extraordinary thing -- upload a file, and a total stranger can be sitting in a chair with your gorgeously bound book in a week, and you don't have to pay a dime," said Roberts who has earned quite a few dimes by selling "Mommy Confidential" on Lulu.com's global marketplace. Her story is much like those of the many authors who have been empowered by Lulu's publishing and marketing tools. Roberts is proof positive that Lulu.com provides authors with endless possibilities -- and their work and success is entirely their own.

Lulu.com (www.lulu.com) is the marketplace for digital content on the Internet, with over 820,000 recently published titles, and more than 5,000 new titles added each week, created by people in more than 80 different countries. With over two million registered users, and two million site visitors each month, Lulu is changing the world of publishing by enabling authors to publish their work themselves for free with complete editorial and copyright control and empowers them to sell directly to their customers and the rest of the Lulu.com global marketplace. With free web storefronts, social networking offerings and available services and global distribution, Lulu authors are fully supported to profit from their work.

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