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What a fun night to celebrate a great book. Thanks, Mike McPadden & friends, for an informative & hilarious Teen Movie Hell event! Featured in these pics: Katie Rife Wendy McClure Christina Ward #Quimbys #QuimbysBookstore #QuimbysChicago #QuimbysBookstoreChicago #KatieRife #WendyMcClure #ChristinaWard #teenmoviehell (at Quimby's Bookstore) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzCf3IJHnsR/?igshid=1lcfgk02fpjq4

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For you late night listeners

War Paint is up on iTunes.

...and per special request aka we asked her and she told us, here’s Ashley Ray’s skincare routine. 

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Meet Our Readers - Wendy McClure

What's going on with your hair right now?

I just got it cut and now it complies. I wish my gray streak would get more dramatic.

Do you have a skincare regimen?

I put on moisturizer in the morning because I am Needs-Moisturizer-years old now. In the night I do nothing unless it's hot out and then I use face wipes because they feel nice.

What about a makeup routine?

I do the whole deal except for blush and lipstick because so much can go wrong there. The only eyeshadow I use now is the cream stuff that I can apply with my fingers. I hate applicator swabs and brushes because they're gross and I am always dropping them on the floor.

Self-care is ________.

Self-care is an overused phrase, imho, but it's also how I justify going to bed at 9:30. TRY IT.

Best product you've used lately?

Aveeno Skin Relief Body Wash keeps me from being an itchy, eczemaniacal (I just invented that word) mess.

Wendy McClure is a writer and children's book editor. Her work has appeared in BUST, The New York Times Magazine, and the Chicago Reader. She's published several books for both kids and adults, including the adult-book-about-a-kid's book The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie. She has never lived anywhere else except Chicago and Iowa. Do not send her your children's book manuscript.

[riverheadbooks]

We are thrilled that Barnes & Noble has included MR. FOX by Helen Oyeyemi and THE WILDER LIFE: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure on their Best Books of 2011 lists! 

Check out all their Best Books of 2011 here.

And while you're there, Riverhead Books make excellent holiday gifts - hint, hint.