Tips from Teri Hatcher

“Desperate Housewives” star Teri Hatcher will serve up life lessons in “Burnt Toast,” a book of advice and inspiration that Hyperion plans to publish next spring.

“I have had many women approach me, sharing their own stories, and ask me how it feels to have a second chance at 40,” Hatcher said in a statement released Tuesday by Hyperion.

When she accepted her Golden Globe for best actress in a TV comedy last January, Hatcher thanked ABC for giving “me a second chance at a career when I couldn’t have been a bigger has-been.”