In case you didn’t already know, Ellen Meister‘s book, Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA, is red hot. I’ve already ordered my copy and am counting the days until it arrives when it is released in August ’06.

This book is so hot, in fact, that she’s already making the news.Check out this item from today’s New York Daily News:

The desperate housewives of Long Island can’t get George Clooney out of their heads — well, at least those wives in Ellen Meister’s novel, “Secret Confession of the Applewood PTA.” The delicious piece of chick lit from a Jericho Long Island PTA mom has harried housewives plotting how to get the Oscar winner to film a movie in their town. While Clooney doesn’t actually visit, he lives in the ladies’ fantasies.

I predict this is only one of many things we’ll be hearing about Ellen Meister and Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA