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Mar.17.2009
Quarter-finalist in Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest!              My new manuscript, JERUSALEM MAIDEN, has just been named a quarterfinalist in a contest run by Amazon to publish a breakthrough novel in partnership with Penguin books. Close to 10,000 submissions were entered! I am asking your ...
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Feb.27.2009
                          Real life happens, and, paradoxically, that is what fiction is about.             Back in the stone-age days of the early 80s, I worked for Redbook magazine, which taught young married women how to manage the physicality of home and family, while supposedly reflecting...
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Dec.21.2008
The direct route to writing a novel?  Recently, a reader asked me about “the short stories that had led to writing each of my novels.” The question presumed a set path in developing fiction, a road starting with an embryo short piece that, incubated and nurtured, develops into a book-length work....
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