90%labor

Member Since:	09/10/2013
Gender:	Female
Location:	USA
Preferred e-Readers:	Kindle
Preferred Genres:	General Mystery, Police Procedural, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Historical fiction, Literary fiction, Women's Fiction, Historical Romance, Alternate History, Environmental Thriller, Historical Thriller, Legal Thriller, Political Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Suspense Thriller

Short Bio:

BS Sociology, minor English Lit MFA NYU Acting NYC Actress for 15 years Started writing at age 7, continued with diaries, short stories, a play, several novelletes, and a book. I'm working on my second book, and getting nowhere, slowly. I love animals, and I can prove it: 2 dogs, several cats--all rescue-all live with me. I used to move from place to place, state to state, but upon discovering that my problems followed me wherever I went, I settled down to work on them. Turns out that growing roots is far more interesting than wandering about. I had a hard time as a kid, and I spent a considerable amount of time trying to catch up, but apparently you never quite can. A huge concern of mine is the environment; I do everything I can to help it, but at some point during my attempt to save the world, I realized that my life wasn't going to be much use unless I started having some fun. So I did. If I lived 1000 years, I would still be growing up, even as I died.

About 90%labor's Reading & Writing

Eclectic. Read lots of new authors, often disappointed. For fun, I Love Sara Paretsky, Jeffrey Deaver, Tess Garretsen, and Janet Evanovich. Read "The Great Gatsby" and "Jane Eyre" every 5 years or so. Reading "Little Women, " now. Dostoyevsky used to be a great favorite, but nowadays I tire during his lengthier descriptions. I still find Chekhov wonderfully funny-such a piercing observer of human behavior. I subscribe to "Rolling Stone, " read most of it--refreshing to find investigative reporting alive and well in at least one publication. I haven't yet found a modern fiction writer that I like much, I'm quite tired of authors who build suspense by killing off a character I've grown fond of. Judging by the dearth of interesting new authors, I've begun to suspect schools are quashing creativity early on, Used to read all the NYT Book Review's recommended fiction. So appalled by so many of the books, I no longer bother much. I've always read voraciously--still do.

Favorite Writers:

F, Scott Fitzgerald
Sara Paretsky

Favorite Books:

Jane Eyre
The Great Gatsby

Reviewed on Book Country


Raw	Reviewed 1 draft on 9/10/2013