Until we return check out - "Shake Your Beauty by Tia Williams"

Tia Williams, 32, lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with her husband, Adam Cabezas. In 1997, she graduated from University of Virginia with a BA in English and moved to New York City after landing a plum editorial assistant position at Doubleday Books. After grouchily reading other people’s manuscripts for a year, she realized that she was a frustrated writer and joined the staff of YM as Beauty Assistant. She went on to work her way up the mastheads of Elle, Glamour and Lucky, and finally, landed the Beauty Director position at Teen People.

Tia, a Fairfax, Virginia native, has covered beauty and fashion trends on shows like MTV’s Total Request Live, CNN, and the WB Morning Show—where, in 2002, she enjoyed a year-long stint reviewing award show looks, Joan Rivers-style (but far sweeter!). In 2001, Tia briefly left the magazines to teach English in Seville, Spain--and ended up writing a manuscript. The novel, THE ACCIDENTAL DIVA (Putnam), hit bookstores in May 2004. An excerpt ran in Cosmopolitan, and the book received glowing coverage in Marie Claire, Essence, Lucky, Elle, Shape, Allure, Today’s Black Woman, Publisher’s Weekly, The New York Times, and The New York Daily News. Tia was also nominated for the African-American Literary Award Show’s Breakout Author of the Year!

In April ’05, Tia left the magazine world to become a full-time author. She co-wrote Iman’s makeup book, THE BEAUTY OF COLOR (Putnam, Oct. ’05) and penned the first novel in her young adult series, THE IT CHICKS (Hyperion/Disney, Spring ’07)—the second installment, SIXTEEN CANDLES, hits stores in May ’08. Tia was an original co-host on Cosmo Radio’s morning show, “Wake Up With Cosmo” (Sirius Satellite Radio), and in ’07, she was In Touch Weekly’s On-Air Personality, covering celebrity news on various television programs. Currently, she’s covering style as the Senior Writer at The Daily/Fashionweekdaily.com. Her three-year-old beauty/style blog, “SHAKE YOUR BEAUTY” has become enormously popular, garnering profiles in Allure, New York Times and WWD, and winning a 2007 Glam.com Network Award for Best Voice/Creative Writing.