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I practiced law as an appellate public defender in NYC for several years. A former competitive ballroom dancer and a longtime balletomane, I write a dance blog, Swan Lake Samba Girl, that's fairly popular in the dance community and has been mentioned in Vanity Fair.com, Wall Street Journal, CNN.com and the NYTimes Arts Beat Blog. My first novel, Swallow, won the gold medal for women's fiction in the 2010 Living Now Book Awards, a gold medal in regional fiction in the 2010 IPPYs, and was a finalist in the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards. I'm still living in New York and working on my second novel.


Hi guys. I guess it’s obvious by now, since I haven’t blogged since September, but I’m going to need to put this blog on hiatus for a while. I’ve been working really long hours at my law job, and with the little time I have left over for writing, I must work on my novel or it’s never going to get done. Sadly, I have hardly any time for reviewing, or even viewing, dance performances these days.


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Average rating: 3.09 · 140 ratings · 42 reviews · 1 distinct work · Similar authors
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