Susan Shapiro

Susan Shapiro, a Manhattan- based writing teacher, has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, Secrets of a Fix-up Fanatic, and Only as Good as Your Word. She lives in Greenwich Village with her husband, a TV/film writer.

Excerpt: Fantasy Man by Susan Shapiro

"My husband refused to tie me up, restrain me, spank me or force me into any form of submission, except to pick up his dry cleaning, which I was always forgetting."