“I read it in one sitting”
-Jill Emerson
“Charming and utterly engaging”
-Nina Solomon
“Memorable characters and cinematic prose”
-Alex Segura
“Something quite extraordinary”
-Sandra Block
“Remarkably emotional and satisfying”
-Tom Straw
“A complex and beautifully told story”
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Sticking the Landing
As an attorney, I write commercial real estate documents which are often 100+ pages long. Granted, I never start with a blank page, but each deal is different and each document has to address the nuances of the particular transaction. The good news is that the last...
On Reading
When I was in the fourth grade, three or four of my classmates and I were put into an experimental reading group, which in fact was not a group at all. We were each free to choose the books we wanted to read. I don’t recall if we chose books from the school library,...
Mrs. Winters’ Passion Library
A couple of months ago, a donorschoose request for a charitable contribution caught my eye. A first grade teacher in Queens was seeking to raise money for a “Passion Library”, a section of the classroom library that would house books on diverse topics, cultivating...
Writing/Not Writing
A few years ago, I attended an open-house/info session for an MFA writing program. At that point, I had written three stories, one of which turned out to be the beginning of what would become The Truth About Parallel Lines. My first story had been published about six...
MEET
JILL
Three years ago, my father asked if I’d like to write a short story for an anthology he was editing. I said yes, without hesitation. I forgot about it for a month, panicked for a month, procrastinated for a month and then I sat down and wrote a story. Since then, I’ve had four stories published, and I wrote a novel. It feels like this is the beginning.