how can i correct this run on sentence?

Her approach was an immediate success with the American public, the Boston Cooking School Cook Book, her first published work, became a best seller in the United States and was soon translated into French, Spanish, and Japanese.

Collette, you’ve posted a bunch of run-on questions, so clearly run-ons are something you need to understand how to fix for yourself. I refer you to the detailed directions I listed on one of your previous questions, which I’ve pasted below to make it easier for your to apply here:

A run-on sentence is created by stringing together two or more complete sentences without proper punctuation. There are three ways to correct run-on sentences:
1. break the run-on sentence into smaller complete sentences
2. join the sentences with a comma and the appropriate conjunction (and, but, so, etc.). Please note that both the comma and the conjunction are important; with a comma alone, this is still a run-on (a.k.a. a comma splice).
3. join the sentences with a semi-colon (as I just did in the sentence above this one) — this only works if the two adjacent sentences are closely related in topic.

So, find the place where the two sentences are joined incorrectly and pick the strategy of your choice. In this case, your issue begins with the note I put on rule #2 . . .

Cooking the Books With the Stimulus

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