Ann Cedeno is a popular nail tech in South Florida. Over the years, many unforgettable stories crossed her desk, and she secretly began writing Diaries of a Nail Technician to share the lessons she learned with others. It's not as much gossip as the experience of reading about other women's challenges that make the stories resonate. If we know what to do in a particular situation, it won't catch us off guard.
She never reveals her sources maintain an impeccable reputation as a person her clients can confide in so they don't hold back. Naturally she disguises them in her book until they are unrecognizable, even to themselves.
In Please Don't Repeat This in addition to the client's tales Ann tells her own story of growing up, not knowing she was adopted, and then meeting her birth parents because, let's face it, everyone has a story.
Ann and her husband live in Parkland, FL. Their daughter is successful in her career, lives close by with her husband and son, and is one of her mother's closest confidants. Their son lives in Nashville, is a drummer for the band Southpost, and shares his mother's love of books.