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Late blooming marriage material and veil enthusiast. Former film editor. Dog crazed globe trotter midlife memoirist. THE BIG DAY arrives 9/22/26

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Thank you @lesliezemeckis and all the @sb_literary_festival volunteers for an inspiring weekend. Caught up with old friends and made new ones. Community is everything. #sbliteraryfest #iheartwritersfestival #bewithyourpeople

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Monday night the pouring rain didn’t keep us from talking about sex @villagewellcc where @alisakriegelauthor brought her adventurous new memoir, “From Sexless Marriage to Sex Goddess” to LA. If you weren’t there you are gonna wanna buy her book today! #fromsexlessmarriagetosexgoddess #shewritespress #authorbookstoreevent

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Thank you @nextgenerationindiebookawards for selecting #sitcinderellasit as a finalists for Women’s Literature Non-Fiction. She wears it well. #gratitude #ilovebling

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Last night @villagewellcc celebrating @janetclare1 new book #truehome. @samanthadunnwrites a brilliant in conversation partner. And I got to hang out with SWP sisters. #lifeisgrand #authorlife

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Tonight I got to see my favourite writers @zibbysbookshop! @johnkenneywriter was promoting his new book #iseeyoucalledindead which will make you laugh out loud. He was in conversation with the one and only Steven Rowley. #lilyandtheoctopus one of my all time favs. I’ll be at Zibby’s Bookshop Wednesday night 6pm with @anastasiazadeik talking #sitcinderellasit. Hope to see you there. #ilovewriters #bestdayever #icannowwritemyownobit

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At the San Miguel Writers and Literary Conference this year, I met the author who changed the way I saw character Owen Meany! He spoke in all caps and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. #iheartowenmeany #johnirving #sanmiguelwritersconference

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This is Susan Brown. My schedule is filled with her classes. She’s as smart as she is beautiful. #iheartlearning #teachersrock #smwc2025

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Pick up the latest People. Sit, Cinderella, Sit is on page 20. #sitcinderellasit #airportshops #peoplewatching

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Sit, Cinderella, Sit
by Lisa Cheek

Thank you She Writes Press for the copy!

Pub date: January 14, 2025

Lisa Cheek loved editing TV commercials—almost as much as she loved her dog, Ron Howard. Then, she “aged out” of advertising at 45. After being let go, Lisa got a call—at 2:45 AM—from a director who, like everyone in Hollywood, had a film he wanted to make: the original Cinderella story. Now, his dream could come true—if Lisa granted his wish.

In Sit, Cinderella, Sit, Lisa Cheek shares her adventures in editing a film made on location in China—along the Tibetan border—where Mandarin was the only language spoken by everyone but her. Stuck in a house with fourteen men she couldn’t understand, literally, she yearned for conversation and coffee.

But there were moments of wonder and laughter. Lisa forged a bond with her translator and a woman named Sunny. She rescued one dog, and then another. “Everyone speaks Cinderella,” the director had assured her. Maybe he was right.

Told with humor and heart through a fairy tale lens, with flashbacks into the author’s not-always-happy childhood, Sit, Cinderella, Sit is a story about what can happen when you take a leap of faith, look and hear beyond people’s differences, and dare to believe in yourself.

🐕 Do you have any dogs?
We have two. Millie (pictured) and Sawyer.

#SitCinderellaSit #memoir #solotravel #China #rescuedogs
#MillieDane #booksanddogs #dogsandbooks
#bookcommunity #alwaysreading #readinglife #readmorebooks

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🐾 Book Feature 🐾

Happy Pub Week to Sit, Cinderella, Sit by Lisa Cheek! As a longtime dog mom, I know I will love this book.

A debut memoir and (sort of) Cinderella story about a woman who’d been told she was “too old” to create magic who flew to rural China, edited a film without speaking a word of Mandarin, and discovered her own power.

Lisa Cheek loved editing TV commercials—almost as much as she loved her dog, Ron Howard. Then, she “aged out” of advertising, at 45. After being let go, Lisa got a call—at 2:45 AM—from a director who, like everyone in Hollywood, had a film he wanted to make: the original Cinderella story. Now, his dream could come true—if Lisa granted his wish.

Told with humor and heart through a fairy tale lens, with flashbacks into the author’s not-always-happy childhood, Sit, Cinderella, Sit is a story about what can happen when you take a leap of faith, look and hear beyond people’s differences, and dare to believe in yourself.

Thank you so much @tlcbooktours for the #gifted copy and for including me on the tour!

QOTD: Do you have any pets? Favorite fairytale?

#SitCinderellaSit #memoir #solotravel #China #rescuedogs

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Cody sends his love 💕 🐾 to Lisa in LA on her pub day. #pubday #loveLA

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📕🌟 Book Tour / Book Feature 🌟📕
Sit, Cinderella, Sit: A Mostly True Memoir by Lisa Cheek
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*Thank you to @lisacheekauthor @shewritespress and #partner @tlcbooktours for my #gifted copy and for having me on the tour*
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Lisa Cheek loved editing TV commercials—almost as much as she loved her dog, Ron Howard. Then, she “aged out” of advertising, at 45. After being let go, Lisa got a call—at 2:45 AM—from a director who, like everyone in Hollywood, had a film he wanted to make: the original Cinderella story. Now, his dream could come true—if Lisa granted his wish.

In Sit, Cinderella, Sit, Lisa Cheek shares her adventures in editing a film made on location in China—along the Tibetan border—where Mandarin was the only language spoken by everyone but her. Stuck in a house with fourteen men she couldn’t understand, literally, she yearned for conversation and coffee.

But there were moments of wonder and laughter. Lisa forged a bond with her translator and a woman named Sunny. She rescued one dog, and then another. “Everyone speaks Cinderella,” the director had assured her. Maybe he was right.

Told with humor and heart through a fairy tale lens, with flashbacks into the author’s not-always-happy childhood, Sit, Cinderella, Sit is a story about what can happen when you take a leap of faith, look and hear beyond people’s differences, and dare to believe in yourself.
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📕 I enjoy trying new things and challenging myself. Two of my favorites are getting my scuba diver certification and becoming a school bus driver 🧜‍♀️🚍
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❓️What is something you've done that challenged you??
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