“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”
-Jonathan Santlofer
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Judging a Book by its Cover
Once I committed to self-publishing The Truth About Parallel Lines, it was up to me to come up with a cover. I had some ideas. I found an iPhone app that let me try different things. During down time at a law firm partners’ retreat in Scottsdale, I wrestled with...
What Kind of Reader are You?
I am a one-book-at-a-time reader. An in bed, before I go to sleep, reader. An every single night, no matter what, reader. Most of the time, an ebook reader. A reader of general fiction, memoir, true crime, not-true crime, mystery and detective novels, historical...
Tick Tock
Can you hear that? That is the sound of my literary clock ticking. It took me two years to write The Truth About Parallel Lines, which, in transactional real estate lawyer years, is a lifetime. Once I’d finished it I was eager to do something with it. I was anxious...
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.