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• Kate Manning
• Jay Nussbaum
• Arthur Phillips
• Michael Redhill
• David Rosenfelt
• Gary Shteyngart
• Karen V. Siplin
• Ali Smith
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Fiction Debut Author Roundtable
 AuthorsOnTheWeb has assembled a roundtable featuring a diverse group of 17 up-and-coming fiction writers who discuss the writing process, publishing/marketing support for debut authors, and their responses to first-time reviews from readers and critics.
While many of the guests are first-time published authors, some participants have recently made their debut on the American publishing scene after being published overseas. Others have written short stories or poetry and are now debut novelists. The participants are Steve Almond, David Benioff, Jill Bialosky, Terrence Cheng, Jill A. Davis, Stella Pope Duarte, Anahita Firouz, Ad Hudler, Masha Hamilton, Kate Manning, Jay Nussbaum, Arthur Phillips, Michael Redhill, David Rosenfelt, Gary Shteyngart, Karen V. Siplin, and Ali Smith.
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| Kate Manning |
Kate Manning is a former journalist and television producer. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children.
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| Jay Nussbaum |
Born January, 1960 in New York City, Jay Nussbaum began writing his first novel in 1987. A mere five manuscripts and 15 years later, Blue Road to Atlantis was published. To pass the time during those years, Jay worked as a lawyer. He’s a graduate of Brandeis University and Boston University School of Law. He passed the time in law school by coaching a high school basketball team in Reading, Massachusetts. He insists that the team’s 3-19 record was not the real reason he was fired, but fired he was, just prior to the start of his 3rd and final year of law school. Needing something else to pass the time, he took up karate at the George Mattson Shubukan, in Boston.
After graduation, he practiced real estate law in New York City. To pass the time--starting to see a theme here?--he wrote fiction and continued to train in karate. In time, two full-length manuscripts vied for space in his top drawer. Things progressed more favorably in karate--he was awarded his black belt in 1991 and opened his first school in 1992. He traveled, trained and taught all over the world during those years, including Okinawa, Hong Kong, Israel, Malaysia and Thailand. How, you ask, does a man who fancies himself reasonably enlightened continue to toil at a career so uninspiring to him that he constantly sought diversions? Well, that’s sort of what Blue Road to Atlantis is all about.
Finally, in 1996, Jay twice shocked the mortgage bank where he was serving as General Counsel. First, he closed the largest deal in the bank's history, estimated at $52 million total. Next, he announced his decision to forsake the lucrative world of finance and devote himself full time to the poverty-plagued world of fiction writing. But there was another reason. Betty, Jay’s treasured wife, had a current of her own to follow. Despite having grown up in poverty, Betty had persevered in night school, and in 1996, was accepted to Cornell University Veterinary School.
Four years of loneliness during Jay’s study in animal husbandry husbandry was just the thing he needed to follow his current wholeheartedly. He taught a course at Cornell--entitled, Taoism in the Dojo--that explored the connection between martial arts and the soul. And he wrote…and wrote and wrote. The result was three more books, the first of which is Blue Road to Atlantis.
©2002 Jay Nussbaum. All rights reserved.
Jay Nussbaum's Website
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| Arthur Phillips |
Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis and educated at Harvard. He has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, a dismally failed entrepreneur, and a five-time Jeopardy! champion. He lived in Budapest from 1990 to 1992 and now lives in Paris with his wife and son.
Photo (c) Peter Turnley
Arthur Phillips's Website
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| Michael Redhill |
Michael Redhill is the managing editor of the Literary Journal "Brick." He has worked as a cultural critic, essayist, editor, ghostwriter, screenwriter, and, in leaner times, waiter, housepainter, and bookseller. Martin Sloane is his first novel.
Martin Sloane Reading Group Guide
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| David Rosenfelt |
I am a novelist with 32 dogs.
I have gotten to this dubious position with absolutely no planning, and at no stage in my life could I have predicted it. But here I am.
My childhood was relentlessly normal. The middle of three brothers, loving parents, a middle-class home in Paterson, New Jersey. We played sports, studied sporadically. laughed around the dinner table, and generally had a good time. By comparison, "Ozzie and Harriet's" clan seemed bizarre.
I graduated NYU, then decided to go into the movie business. I was stunningly brilliant at a job interview with my uncle, who was President of United Artists, and was immediately hired. It set me off on a climb up the executive ladder, culminating in my becoming President of Marketing for Tri-Star Pictures. The movie landscape is filled with the movies I buried; for every "Rambo", "The Natural" and "Rocky", there are countless disasters.
I did manage to find the time to marry and have two children, both of whom are doing very well, and fortunately neither have inherited my eccentricities.
A number of years ago, I left the movie marketing business, to the sustained applause of hundreds of disgruntled producers and directors. I decided to try my hand at writing. I wrote and sold a bunch of feature films, none of which ever came close to being actually filmed, and then a bunch of TV movies, some of which actually made it to the small screen. It's safe to say that their impact on the American cultural scene has been minimal.
About five years ago, my wife and I started the Tara Foundation, named in honor of the greatest Golden Retriever the world has ever known. We rescued almost 4,000 dogs, many of them Goldens, and found them loving homes. Our own home quickly became a sanctuary for those dogs that we rescued that were too old or sickly to be wanted by others. Right now they number 32, and they surround me as I write this. It's total lunacy, but it works, and they are a happy, safe group.
David Rosenfelt was the former marketing president for Tri-Star Pictures before becoming a writer of novels and screenplays. Open and Shut is his first novel.
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| Gary Shteyngart |
Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1972 and emigrated with his family to Queens, New York, at the age of seven. After spending time in Prague in the early 1990's, Shteyngart earned a degree in Politics at Oberlin College, where his senior thesis concerned the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Moldova, and Tajikistan. After graduation, he worked a series of jobs as a writer for non-profit organizations in New York, including the real-life Emma Lazarus Immigrant Absorption Society. Shteyngart completed The Russian Debutante's Handbook last summer in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he was also researching his second novel. He lives in New York City.
Photo (c) Ioana Bontea
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| Karen V. Siplin |
Karen V. Siplin has a degree in film production from CUNY's Hunter College. She is a member of the John Oliver Killens Writers Workshop and New York Celebrity Assistants. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Photo (c) Harris W. Schwartz
Karen V. Siplin's Website
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| Ali Smith |
Ali Smith’s first collection of stories won the Saltire First Book Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award. She lives in Cambridge, England.
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