Life List Day 23 - Celebrate My New Book

My new novel, THE NEXT THING ON MY LIST , hits stores today!

It's about a woman who is trying to finish a life list for a friend who died before she had the chance to complete it herself. It was inspired by my own efforts to do a life list.

The novel is already a bestseller in Germany (where it goes by the title THE DESIRE LIST) and film rights have been picked up by DEVIL WEARS PRADA producer Wendy Finerman for New Line Cinema.



Getting published is definitely on my life list, and I plan to sit back today and allow myself to really enjoy it - including finally breaking out the Dom to celebrate.

Life List Day 4 - I Made Liz Smith's Column Today!

I made Liz Smith's famous gossip column in the New York Post today. Here's what it said:

"Next for "The Devil Wears Prada" producer Wendy Finerman? Why, it's the chick-lit novel "The Next Thing on My List" by Jill Smolinski. This is about a girl attempting to complete her list of "20 things to do before my 25th birthday." Wendy nabbed the novel, which comes out next month for a New Line film."

Yes, there I am in print: sandwiched between Reese Witherspoon and Donald Trump (the latter of whom had a few choice words to say about George W).

As for my quest to do something new every day, I can honestly say, I've never made a gossip column before! And without the tedious bother of a scandal.

Although "cause a scandal" is still on my "things-to-do" list. Just not yet.