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VOTE: Last Day for "The Pas de Deux"

Jan 3, 2018
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VOTE: Last Day for "The Pas de Deux"

It’s the last day to #VOTE for The Pas de Deux! With each novel I write, I set myself the goal of perfecting one aspect of fiction. In The Piece, it was mastering deep point-of-view; for The Winner, it was creating colorful, fully realized characters. In The Pas de Deux, I set my sights on plot. While plot is probably the most studied aspect of the craft, it is, in my estimation, the hardest. Because for all the books devoted to parsing the differences between the inciting

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MUSING: The Prescience of "The Pas de Deux" amid Current Revelations about Peter Martins a

Dec 13, 2017
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MUSING: The Prescience of "The Pas de Deux" amid Current Revelations about Peter Martins a

When I started writing The Pas de Deux: A Classical Ballet Romance in February of 2017, I had no idea how PRESCIENT it would be today in the wake of the #MeToo movement and the recent revelations about Peter Martins at New York City Ballet. At the time, dismayed by homophobia, racism, and sexism, I went back in time to see if history could teach me anything about hatred. I found myself in '80s Hollywood, smack in the middle of the AIDS epidemic, with stops along the way to ad

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VOTE: "The Pas de Deux" is on Kindle Scout

Dec 8, 2017
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VOTE: "The Pas de Deux" is on Kindle Scout

My new novel, The Pas de Deux: A Classical Ballet Romance, is on Kindle Scout until January 5, 2018. You can read an excerpt, check out my competition, and find out why I think the romance genre is the perfect embodiment of the Hegelian dialectic by clicking HERE. For what it’s worth, this is the best thing I’ve written this year, and I’ve written some things (like this, this, and this) that I — even with my perfectionism and self-doubt — thought were pretty good. #ballet #ba

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