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Amanda Lamb Author/Television Reporter www.smotherhoodbook.com

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Biography

Amanda Lamb is a professional television journalist and author. She covers murder trials by day and reads Dora the Explorer to her children at night. Somewhere in between all of that she writes about those parenting moments that catch each us off-guard in a crazy, chaotic, and wonderful way.

Amanda is a veteran crime reporter for an award-winning CBS television station in the southeast. She writes, produces and reports segments live on-air every evening for the local news. She has been a professional journalist for more eighteen years. In addition to working for a local affiliate she has appears on several national news programs on a regular basis including the FOX News show "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren. She also writes a regular online column for WRAL called "Dispatches from a Reporter’s Notebook." To view her work go to www.wral.com.

In August Globe Pequot published her first book under the new Skirt! Imprint, "Smotherhood: Wickedly Funny Confessions from the Early Years." For more information on this raw, edgy, in-your-face, laugh-out-loud memoir about parenting in the twenty-first century go to www.smotherhoodbook.com. In 2008, the Berkley Group, a division of Penguin, will publish Amanda’s second book, a true crime story titled "Deadly Dose" about a young, promising scientist who is poisoned with arsenic by his wife.

Amanda also writes for a parenting website called "Dotmoms." She is one of the pioneer members of a community of women around the world who share moving parental anecdotes and insight. Her work can be viewed at www.dot-moms.com under the "Browse Author" section by clicking on "Amanda."

In 2005 Amanda’s writing was featured in "This Day in the Life." Her candid, touching chapter opens the powerful, critically acclaimed collection of diaries from thirty-four women across the country.

Amanda received undergraduate degrees in English and psychology from Duke University in North Carolina and her Masters degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. She grew up outside of Philadelphia and now makes her home in North Carolina with her husband and two little girls who keep providing her with more material than she could ever write about in a lifetime. For more details about Amanda go to www.alambauthor.com.