Stephanie Losee is co-author of the book Office Mate: The Employee Handbook for Finding—and Managing—Romance on the Job. In the book she and Helaine Olen explain why work just might be the perfect place to find true love. The New York Times called Office Mate “a kind of ‘The Rules’ for the office”and Reuters selected it as their Business Book of the Week; it has appeared in publications ranging from Time and People to Salon.com; Stephanie and Helaine were named Love & Sex Coaches on AOL and have appeared on CNN and Fox Business News as well as other TV programs and radio shows across the country and in Britain, Europe, and Russia. Office Mate will be translated into Russian in 2008. Stephanie Losee is also co-author of You've Only Got Three Seconds: How to Make the Right Impression in Your Business and Social Life, written with Camille Lavington and published by Doubleday in hardcover in 1997 and in paperback in 1998. The book was a selection of the Money Book Club and the Forbes Book Club and has been translated into Danish and Korean. Her personal essays have appeared in several publications and in anthologies that include The Maternal is Political, Horse Crazy and Cup of Comfort for Writers. She was featured in Alison Rogers’ Diary of a Real Estate Rookie and appears in the new book Time to Write: Professional Writers Reveal How to Fit Writing Into Your Life by Kelly Stone. Her stories have been published in O, The Oprah Magazine, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, San Francisco Magazine, Child, the Mountain Gazette, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and Salon.com, among others. Her essay “Ella’s Restaurant” was a finalist in creative nonfiction for the 2004 New Letters Award. She is a frequent commentator on KQED, Northern California Public Radio. Away from her desk she is an open-water swimmer, a mountaineer, an Opera Guild director, a former New Yorker, a current San Franciscan, and the mother of three daughters ages 3 to 13.
New, or Practically New
- Read the latest press on Office Mate and check out video and audio clips of our appearances here.
- Q&A with Valerie Frankel about her new book Thin is the New Happy on AlterNet.
- Commentary in The Huffington Post on how Sarah Palin’s lifestyle choices don’t seem all that conservative to me.
- Check out my piece on stylists and my pic on the Contributor’s Page of the July “Best of the Bay” issue of San Francisco magazine.
- My essay on how I brainwashed my daughter to be a Democrat appears in the anthology The Maternal is Political.
- My six-word memoir (sorry, that’s the best I can do right now) appears in the book Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak: by Writers Famous and Obscure, due from Harper Perennial in January.
- Fame and fortune: I think in the book title above, I qualify as the latter.
