Ten years after it first hit bookstore shelves, Oak Cliff writer Sophia Dembling’s book The Yankee Chick’s Survival Guide to Texas is now available for Kindle.

Dembling, who lives in Kiestwood, moved to Dallas from New York City in the 1980s. Living first in Oak Lawn, then East Dallas, she moved to Oak Cliff about 25 years ago with her husband Tom Battles, who owns Tom Battles Custom Picture Framing on Tyler Street.

In The Yankee Chick’s Survival Guide to Texas, Dembling explains for other transplants all the things she needed to learn about her adopted home state, with chapters on topics from food to dating, church to travel.

Not only can the book help Yankees understand Texans, she says, but Texans who read it might gain some insight into their Yankee friends. And, says Dembling, “It hasn’t pissed off a Texan yet, that I know of, even though commenting on Texas as an outsider—especially a Yankee--can be risky.” But, she adds, “I contend that Texans and New Yorkers are the same: Both are convinced they live in the center of the universe, and pity the poor fools who live elsewhere."

The Yankee Chick’s Survival Guide to Texas is available on Amazon in both print and electronic form, and at major bookstores. (If it’s not on the shelves, ask them to order it, Dembling says. “Support a fellow Cliff dweller.”)

Since Yankee Chick was released in 2002, Dembling has co-authored two other books—The Making of Dr. Phil: The Straight-Talking True Story of Everyone’s Favorite Therapist  (also available for Kindle); and I Can Still Laugh: Stories of Inspiration and Hope from Individuals Living With Alzheimer’s (written with an expert at The Center for BrainHealth). Her next book, The Introvert’s Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World (Perigee Books) will be released in December.

“I’m actually a little surprised Yankee Chick is still in print,” says Dembling. “It was my first book, written for the impressive advance of $500. But it’s spunky—it just keeps selling and selling. I have great affection for it.”

For more information, visit www.yankeechick.com