Creating a Marriage You'll Love: Secrets for Building a Rich and Full Life Together

by Mark Chimsky-Lustig, Mark Evan Chimsky

What makes a marriage work and stand the test of time? In Creating a Marriage You'll Love, 13 prominent authors and relationship experts write about this subject, and provide advice and wisdom for a happy marriage. Many of the essays are original, including ones from bestselling authors Harriet Lerner, Barbara De Angelis, and Gay Hendricks. A reprinted essay by mega-bestselling author John Gray is also included. This is a fun, lively, practical collection of essays that will be the perfect gift for wedding showers and anniversaries, as well as for all those who are looking for ways to make their marriages stronger.All royalties from the book will be donated to nonprofit organizations that help victims of domestic violence, with the goal of making every home a safe home.

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Mark Chimsky is Editor-in-Chief of the book division of Sellers Publishing. For eight years, he ran his own editorial consulting business. Previously he was executive editor and editorial director of Harper San Francisco and headed the paperback divisions at Little, Brown and Macmillan. In addition, he was on the faculty of New York University’s Center for Publishing and for three years he served as the director of the book section of NYU’s Summer Publishing Institute. He has edited a number of bestselling books, including Johnny Cash's memoir, Cash, and he has worked with such notable authors as Melody Beattie, Arthur Hertzberg, Beryl Bender Birch, and Robert Coles. His editorial achievements have been noted in Vanity Fair, The Nation, and Publishers Weekly. He is an award-winning poet whose poetry and essays have appeared in JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association), Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Mississippi Review, and the PBS Web site, Next Avenue. He is also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. For Sellers Publishing, he has developed and compiled the anthologies, Creating a Business You'll Love, Creating a Meal You'll Love, Creating a Marriage You'll Love, and Creating a Life You'll Love, which won the silver in ForeWord Review's 2009 Book of the Year Awards (self-help category). His most recent collection, 65 Things to Do When You Retire, was recently named by the Wall Street Journal as "[one] of the year's best guides to later life."

Reviews

[Janet]

Good essays from an array of authors and relationship experts, especiall "Making the Choice to Love Now" by Barbara De Angelis and Gay Hendricks' "How to Create a Conscious, Loving Marriage: the Seven Keys."

[Sherry]

Already LOVING this book, just from reading the preface and the first chapter. I would already recommend it to everyone!