Just Let Me Lie Down Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom

Kristin van Ogtrop knows she's lucky - ulfilling career, great husband, three healthy kids, and, depending on the hamster count, an impressive roster of pets. She also knows she is tired. Always. Using stories and insights from her own life, she provides a lexicon for the half-insane working mom. Anyone who has left a meeting to race to the Halloween parade immediately understands van Ogtrop's definition of "Kill the messenger" as "The action you must take in order to forget about the office for a time-that is, to remove your Blackberry/ Treo/ iPhone/ whatever from your person and store it as far away as your neurotic self will allow." Filled with essays, lists, and resonant observations, JUST LET ME LIE DOWN establishes van Ogtrop as the Erma Bombeck of the new millennium.

Kristin van Ogtrop, the former editor-in-chief of Real Simple, is a literary agent at InkWell Management. Under her stewardship, Real Simple became the #1 American women's lifestyle magazine brand with a print and digital reach of 25 million and was nominated for 15 National Magazine Awards. Kristin's blog, "Adventures in Chaos," was nominated for a Media Industry Newsletter "Best of the Web" award, and in 2014, she was named by Fortune magazine as one of the "55 Most Influential Women on Twitter." She is a contributor to the New York Times bestseller, The Bitch in the House and the author of Just Let Me Lie Down, published by Little, Brown. As an agent, she represents memoir, commercial women's fiction, humor, lifestyle and big idea books driven by counterintuitive thinking.