Lose Weight the Lazy Way: 25 Golden Rules to Success is the author Janet Marie’s first e-book. It grew out of a sincere desire to help woman over forty like herself to lose weight and get in better shape…the lazy way! Ms. Marie grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey and started dance training at age five and piano a few years later. She continued her training at Smith College, where she graduated with Honors and Distinction in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in Dance. After college, she obtained a Masters’ Degree in Business Administration on a Mellon Grant at Pace University. She then embarked on a long career in the entertainment industry, both behind and in front of the camera, all the while maintaining a keen interest in combining her core skills in the arts and in business. Highlights of her career include production managing music videos with famous artists such as Earth, Wind and Fire, The Police and Rod Stewart. She followed that with five years at ABC-TV, where she worked on major network shows such as “General Hospital” and the Summer Olympics. After leaving ABC, Marie produced and performed in a number of radio shows, TV pilots and TV commercials, primarily under the banner of her own production company, Danstar Productions. In 1999, Marie shifted focus and began songwriting with her partner and longtime friend Karen Soroca in the songwriting team of “Soroca & Allocca”. Danstar Productions also added music publishing and production to its overall roster and it became an ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) music publishing company geared to licensing its song catalog to film and TV. “Wise Woman” was and is their number one fan favorite and the song has garnered airplay as well as being placed in a number of film and video projects. Currently, Marie is focused on her LAZYGIRLZ, LLC venture which combines all her interests in fitness, dance, music, video and food! She has approached the topic of Lose Weight the Lazy Way not as a nutritionist, but as a body-conscious dancer who understands the need for balance between mind and body in the form of eating right and keeping active. Mostly, she wants to inspire women to lose weight and get in better shape…without trying too hard! Janet Marie is divorced and living in Malibu, California. She has a condo in Maui where she loves to go to “get away from it all”. Her hobbies include travel, dance, motorcycling, Jet Skis, swimming, hiking, skiing and sailing. And she loves little terriers!