Stephanie O’Dea is a New York Times best selling author, award-winning blogger, and a mom of three.
(p.s.: this is all in the third person because that’s the way you’re supposed to write “about” pages. evidently. I don’t really talk like this.)
O’Dea likes shortcuts. A LOT. She shared her number one cooking shortcut in 2008 when she made a New Year’s Resolution to use her Crock-Pot slow cooker everyday for a year and write about it on the Internet. Her award-winning blog, A Year of Slow Cooking has had more than 11 million visitors from all over the world.
In 2009, O’Dea launched Totally Together Journal, where she shares her housekeeping shortcuts. Her Daily 7 For A Highly Successful Household and her decluttering acronym, PROM (purge, remove, organize, maintain) have helped thousands of moms streamline their homes.
Her first book, Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking spent six weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. Her second book is More Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: 200 Brand New Recipes for Slow Cooker Meals on a Budget. Her third book, Totally Together: Shortcuts to an Organized Life will be released in August of 2011. The format for this book will be a weekly organizational planner based on her Totally Together Journal website.
She has appeared on Good Morning America, The Rachael Ray Show, featured in Real Simple Magazine, Woman’s World, and Oprah.com. For a more comprehensive press listing, click here.
In her former life, Stephanie ran preschool centers for underprivileged children. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in English Literature and holds an Early Childhood Education Administrative Certificate.
Stephanie has a facebook page set up and maintained by a fan, and is on twitter @stephanieodea.
