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Warren Adler's Divorce Story Contest is now underway and is accepting submissions. Stories must be 1,500 words or less and entries will be accepted until November 15, 2011.

Ending a marriage for whatever reason is a traumatic event. The statistics are appalling. About half of every marriage ends in divorce. A vast commercial network of lawyers, psychologists, accountants, counselors and others has sprung up to shepherd people through this process.

Everyone who has gone through this life changing event has a story to tell and we believe other people’s experiences might offer insight and wisdom into ways to cope with this growing phenomena. In a sense this is not really a contest. It is more of an opportunity to provide others with a narrative that might help people who are experiencing or have experienced this profound episode in their lives to weather the storms that are an inevitable consequence.

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In Warren's Words

Should Novelists Review Another Novelist's Novels?

I have always been wary of novelists reviewing other novelists, especially in places that attract serious readers of serious novels like the New York Times Book Review which, despite its diminishing influence, still has an effect on the reading tastes for the discriminating consumer of books.

Perhaps I am uncomfortable with the practice because mainstream non-genre novel writers are, despite loud protests to the contrary, in fierce competition with other mainstream novelists. They compete for attention, notoriety, praise and prizes in a kind of nebulous pantheon of imagined immortality and secretly hope to be part of the literary canon of the future.

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In Warren's Words

In the Media, How Many Wrongs Make a Right?

Years ago, in the wake of Watergate, I wrote a novel titled The Henderson Equation which dealt with the following premise:

If media, meaning a powerful newspaper, had the persuasive power to bring down a President, why is it not possible for a newspaper to create the President of its choice?

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