THELMA ADAMS debut novel PLAYDATE (St. Martinýs Press/Thomas Dunne Books) came out in January 2011, and will be published in paperback in March 2012. She is currently a Yahoo Contributing Editor and her column ýThelma Adams on Reel Womený runs on AMC Filmcritic.com. She was the film critic at Us Weekly for eleven years from 2000 to 2011, following six years at the New York Post. She has twice chaired the New York Film Critics Circle. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Huffington Post, Marie Claire, More, Interview Magazine, The New York Times, The international Herald Tribune, Cosmopolitan and Self. She has appeared on CNN, E, NY1, NBCýs TheToday Show, CBSýs The Early Show, Fox News Channel, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, Bravo and VH1. In 1993, she earned an MFA in fiction from Columbia University in 1985, she earned an MBA in Arts Management from UCLA she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley in 1981. She lives in Hyde Park, New York, with her husband, son, daughter, three cats, one spaniel and a flock of wild turkeys.