Jan­ice Kaplan spent a year liv­ing grate­ful­ly to write The Grat­i­tude Diaries and she is delight­ed that the book has encour­aged so many read­ers to gain a more pos­i­tive out­look. Her new book What Your Body Knows About Hap­pi­ness brings a new twist to the sto­ry, look­ing at how the pow­er­ful body-brain loop influ­ences us in ways we nev­er imag­ine. It’s full of sur­pris­ing insights on how you can be hap­pi­er and more cre­ative every day. As the edi­tor-in-chief of Parade mag­a­zine and the exec­u­tive pro­duc­er of many prime­time net­work TV spe­cials, Kaplan met and inter­viewed big stars and polit­i­cal fig­ures. In the nov­els she has writ­ten, Kaplan has fun bring­ing her expe­ri­ences in these (sup­pos­ed­ly) glam­orous worlds to her read­ers. In all of her books, Kaplan’s goal is always to make read­ers happier.