I CAN STILL SMELL IT

They had moved three times, from their original apartment in Gramercy Park, to the East Side on 72nd and finally to the big high rise on the West Side overlooking the Hudson. “I can still smell it,” Rachel said. “It’s not possible. It’s been four years.” Larry, because he loved her with the same zeal […]

“Should I Start Lying About My Age?” Featured on THE HUFFINGTON POST

“I am seriously thinking about lying about my age. Of course it’s impossible. The Internet has my age engraved in perpetuity. I notice the difference immediately after my most casual face-to-face social revelation of the “number” — even if it is merely a reminder to my friends and my children. The change in expression is […]

Torture Man

“Torture Man is drama on every page, with suspenseful and gripping scenes. The characters chosen for this novel are shown realistically and blend easily with the plot. It is an imaginative and terrifying story, a thriller from the first page to the last, and also an exciting drama. With many interwoven snippets of personal tragedies and […]

VENTURE GALLERIES Features “On Rejection and Renewal: A Note to Aspiring Novelists”

“YOU’VE SPENT MONTHS, perhaps years, composing your novel. You’ve read and reread it hundreds of times. You’ve rethought it, rewritten it, and revised it, changed characters, dialogue and plot lines. Writing your novel is the most important thing in your life. It has absorbed your attention, almost exclusively. Both your conscious and your subconscious mind have […]

Lying About My Age: A Reflection on Ageism

I am seriously thinking about lying about my age. Of course it’s impossible. The internet has my age engraved in perpetuity. I notice the difference immediately after my most casual face-to-face social revelation of the “number” – even if it is merely a reminder to my friends and my children. The change in expression is […]

The Creative Writing Course That Changed My Life

In 1949 when I was twenty-one years old I took a creative writing course at the New School in Manhattan given by Professor Don M. Wolfe. He had been my freshman English teacher at New York University, where I graduated in 1947, just two months shy of my twentieth birthday. I lived at home in […]

Warren Adler’s “Confronting Your Bad Reviews” Featured on THE WRITE CONVERSATION

“Every serious novelist worth their salt believes in their soul that they have written a brilliant novel or multiple novels in which the reader will find compelling characters engaged in deeply imagined stories that profoundly illustrate the human condition. What every novelist, traditionally or self-published, yearns for is for others to be moved by their […]