All the Good Stuff of Real Life.
The two This Day books now in stores invited hundreds of American women to create a day diary on a single, “ordinary” Tuesday. The results were far from ordinary as each book contributor—from Miss America to madams; from schoolteachers to soldiers—revealed the intimate details, real-life drama, and laugh-out-loud moments of her daily life.

More Voices. More Perspectives. More Good Stuff.
Now we’re so excited to have created Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work, coming out March 2008 from Da Capo Lifelong Books, an imprint of the Perseus Books Group. This third book in the series shares the same core concept as our other two This Day titles, but focuses on what working women across America and with all types of jobs (paying or non-paying) are really doing, thinking, and feeling as they go through their workday, whether they are employed in an office, work at home, or do their job one thousand feet below the ground (a mine geologist).

From Project to Book.
As part of this book project approximately 500 American women (age 21 or older) contributed a day diary on a single date—Tuesday, March 27, 2007. From these submissions, we feature thirty-five complete day diaries in the book, as well as a range of excerpts on job-related issues. While page parameters made it impossible to include entries from all the contributors, we value the participation of each and every day diarist.

Book Components:

• A collection of day diaries written by a diverse group of working women, each preceded by a brief profile of the day diarist.
• Hundreds of excerpts covering a range of themes from bosses to co-workers to water cooler chit chat.
• Collective Glimpses highlighting the interesting, surprising, and just plain quirky statistical similarities and differences among our total group of day diarists.