Couldn’t wait to share the news that my upcoming book, Weightless: My Life As A Fat Man And How I Escaped (due September 9th)  has been chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of their Top 10 Memoirs for Fall 2014! (On the same list as Lena Dunham and Angelica Huston? I’m truly so honored!)

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY’S Top 10: Memoirs

Daring: My Passages. Gail Sheehy. Morrow, Sept. 9

The Fall. Diogo Mainardi, trans. by Margaret Jull Costa. Other Press, Oct. 7

Father and Son: A Lifetime. Marcos Giralt Torrente, trans. by Natasha Wimmer. FSG/Sarah Crichton, Sept. 9

Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Charles M. Blow. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Sept. 23

Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned.” Lena Dunham. Random, Sept. 30

Packing Up: Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse. Brigid Keenan. Bloomsbury, Sept. 30

Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness. Pete Earley and Jessie Close. Grand Central, Jan. 6

Watch Me. Anjelica Huston. Scribner, Nov. 11

Weightless: My Life As a Fat Man and How I Escaped. Gregg McBride. Central Recovery Press, Sept. 9

The Wild Truth. Carine McCandless. HarperOne, Nov. 4

If you want to find out a little more about Weightless, you can visit (and even “like”) its facebook page. (Thanks!)