Author Jill Kargman Says She’s No Arm Candy

There was enthusiasm… and there were some expletives.  Jill Kargman, fashionably clad, jet black hair and sweet smile showed at her Bethesda Row book signing Thursday night that her personality is far from the characters depicted in her novels, including Eden, the heroine of Kargman’s fun and flashy latest novel, Arm Candy.


As a child Jill was obsessed with beauty – staring at magazines and versing herself on all the models.  While working in fashion for publications like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, she was shocked to find out that these beautiful women were so unlucky in love.  So she nabbed the stories of some in her social circles and started writing.

Her latest, Arm Candy, is an entertaining tale of an older woman’s male pretty young thing, high society, a materialistic world and love.  Not Kargman’s personality at all, she claims, and you won’t find any trace of Eden in her, yet she manages to infuse her humor and great  gossipy style to hook readers with what seems to be an intimate inside story.

Look out for Kargman’s new release, “Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut” in February 2011.


*Khaleelah Po Rome contributed this post.