my new novel
The Sleep Specialist
Raven's Eye Publishing, 2007, trade paper. Click here for details.
Nonfiction
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
Harcourt, trade paper
Selected Worksmy new novelThe Sleep SpecialistRaven's Eye Publishing, 2007, trade paper. Click here for details. NonfictionSister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming SentencesHarcourt, trade paper Quick LinksSISTER BERNADETTE'S BARKING DOG is available from amazon,Barnes & Noble,Powell's,and of course your local independent bookseller!THE SLEEP SPECIALIST is also available from amazon,or directly from lulu.comThe website of my friend Jane Schwartz, author of RUFFIANThe stellar website of Gene Moutoux, the diagramming guruRon's knife-making websiteMy Renaissance husband is a craftsman and knifemaker as well as a painter - this is his new website reflecting those interests... Ron's art website...and here are the paintings. Please email me here. |
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The hammock in the country where I try to spend as much time as possible....
Ron with our cat Duke |
A short bio... I was born in Syracuse, NY -- an only child.
Me, age 4. I was a quiet kid, obsessed with books, devoted to my cat, very close to my parents, and shy except when I was with my best friends. I went to the same Syracuse parochial school from 1st to 12th grades -- St. John the Baptist Academy, which inspired SISTER BERNADETTE'S BARKING DOG. I have a B.A. from Boston University and an M.A. from Syracuse, both in English literature. After college, I married and moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where my daughter, Katherine, was born. She now lives with her husband in northern California, where she is a law professor. She's expecting our first grandchild in December 2007. I've been a reporter, worked in a bookstore, written catalog copy for a book distributor, and done freelance editing. After I left New Haven, I lived for twelve years with my second husband, Ron Savage -- a painter and craftsman -- in the Williamsburg/ Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. We left the city in 2006 to spend winters in central Connecticut and summers in a little house in the woods of upstate New York. Thanks to the wonders of technology, I work long-distance as an editor for Muze, Inc., in New York City, where I have been for thirteen years. When I'm not writing or editing, I read, take long walks, cook for friends, play the piano (badly as ever!), mess around in the garden, keep a voluminous diary (as I have done for over 30 years), work at fixing up both our old houses, hang out with the cats, and write indignant letters to the Times. |