Domestic Goddess on a Budget at number 5 on bestsellers after only 5 days on sale!

Thanks to everyone who is rushing out to buy Domestic Goddess on a Budget. The good news is that it went on sale on June 1 and when they counted the figures on June 6 it was already at number 5 on the non-fiction bestsellers list. I am really pleased

Have a look at the interview I did with Oliver and Carly on Sunrise if you want to know more about the book:

http://www.3news.co.nz/News/HealthNews/How-to-be-a-domestic-goddess/tabid/420/articleID/107623/cat/58/Default.aspx

Meanwhile the novel is back in the top drawer while I address some character issues. Will probably take another look at it after a 5 day workshop on novel writing I have signed up for.

One book on shelves, another one delivered.

Domestic Goddess on a Budget hits the shelves this weekend, while I tackle my publisher's suggestions for my novel. It is very weird to have a book about cleaning recipes and life management out while I wrestle with my dark thriller. I've been very grumpy that the publisher didn't just accept it as is and requires changes, which just goes to show how naive I am about the novel writing process. Apparently this is what you do and my friend and successful novelist Nicky Pellegrino is helping me through it. I have also signed up for a novel writing workshop.  

Anyway, Domestic Goddess on a Budget is only $25 and if you make all the cleaning recipes in it you will save about $35 a month so it will pay for itself!  I'm also interested in any recipes anyone might have tucked away which I will post here and then put in the next edition if there is one. Reviews so far: my friend Jeremy Wells said he liked the relationship advice and the ZB newsroom like the lavender spray cleaner I delivered up there yesterday. Make it yourself by filling a 1 litre spray bottle with warm water, add 1 tsp baking soda, a few drops of dishwashing detergent and 10 drops of lavender essential oil.

New book Domestic Goddess on a Budget is out in June.

Thanks to everyone who has been buying Bitch and Famous my memoir of my time editing women's magazines and wrangling celebrities on Trade Me - and don't forget $1 from each sale goes to fund Cot Death Research. You can also send me a cheque for $16.50 ($15 plus postage) to Wendyl Nissen, P.O. Box 78361, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1245 - with your name and address, who you want me to sign it to and I'll post you one out.

The good news is my next book Domestic Goddess on a Budget, published by Penguin is out in June. It's a response to all the NZ Woman's Weekly readers and April in the Afternoon viewers who asked me to put all my natural cleaning recipes and work/life balance advice into a book. It has ended up as a guide to cleaning your house with baking soda and vinegar, saving money, being green, living a sustainable life and taking control of the chaos in your life.  Look out for it in bookshops for $25 and I'll be selling some on Trade Me as well.

I hope you enjoy it. 

Just a reminder for anyone looking for my Herald on Sunday columns you can now read them online at www.nzherald.co.nz.

Plenty left

Thanks Barbara for your comment.  I have plenty  of books left and am doing a roaring trade through Trade Me. A lot of women are buying it for themselves or a friend for Christmas, and many have commented that they couldn't find it in bookshops. And I'm getting a lot of lovely comments and feedback which makes me glad I put it up for sale in the first place.