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The baby, State of Georgia, arrives Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. on ABC Family. It's a broad sitcom with a modicum of fun, written by big-time chick-lit author, and Philadelphian, Jennifer Weiner. She has sold 11 million books in 36 countries, but she has never made a TV show.

State of Georgia stars been-on-TV-since-she-was-a-baby Raven-Symone as Georgia and the well-traveled but still somewhat obscure Majandra Delfino, whom TV heads may best remember as the snarky Maria DeLuca, human girlfriend of an alien, on Roswell more than 10 years ago.

Delfino has never done a traditional sitcom before, and she's surprisingly good. "Sometimes you just look at her, and it's like visiting a museum," says Weiner, providing a clue as to how she got so rich and famous as an author, after leaving The Inquirer in 2001, following a six-year stint as a feature writer.

Weiner, pronounced WI-ner ("Anthony Weiner has ruined a perfectly good name for a lot of people," she says), is much greener than Delfino. Yet here she is, executive producer of her own show, surrounded by scads of cast, crew, and cowriters, with a TV veteran partner, Kirk Rudell, co-executive producer on Will & Grace, to keep things running smoothly.

It's very different from sitting all alone in a garret in Queen Village, where she has lived for years, making a book, and she's glad.

"I love being around people, having other people to talk to," she said in a phone interview from her L.A. office. "It's very lonely writing novels."

Weiner is a gregarious scribe. Many authors dread book-tour publicity. She says she likes it, and a new tour is in the offing. Then Came You, about a wealthy woman, her stepdaughter, an egg donor, and a surrogate mother, is 70th on the Amazon fiction list, and it won't be published for three weeks. She'll talk about the book in an appearance at the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine St., on July 13.