J.C. Conklin, a former Wall Street Journal and Dallas Morning News reporter, is author of THE DALLAS WOMEN’S GUIDE TO GOLD-DIGGING WITH PRIDE (Ballantine, 2007). The sequel, THE DALLAS WOMEN’S GUIDE TO VIRGINITY, is forthcoming. Conklin also co-authored THE COMEBACK MOMS with Monica Samuels.

She is the co-founder of the movie production company, Texas Avenue Films, and lives in Austin, Texas. It was as a lowly writer in Dallas that she discovered the cutthroat world of husband hunting. Never get in the way of a single woman turning thirty in Texas—you’ll have permanent scars.