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Name: Susanne Dunlap
Website: emiliesvoice.com
Contact: susannedunlap@emiliesvoice.com

Questions

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: I was born near Philadelphia, but I grew up in Buffalo, NY.

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A: My latest book news is that I Simon & Schuster’s Touchstone Books will be publishing my second novel. The working title is “Liszt’s Kiss,” and the publication date is not yet determined.

Q: How old were you when you first started writing?
A: I first started writing when I was a child. My first attempt at a novel was when I was about 28 years old, but I really didn’t decide to concentrate on writing until I was about 47 years old.
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Name: Howard Camner
Website: http://members.authorsguild.net/hcamner/
Contact: hcamner@aol.com

Questions

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: I’m originally from Miami, Florida. I’ve left many times but always somehow seem to wind up here.

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A: Latest book news: My last book publication was five years ago already. I have several / too many things going at once now. I’m pedaling a feature film screenplay, there’s a children’s book in the works, possibly a new poetry book, a stage play, and I’m gearing up to get my autobiography going again. That seems to be my focus at the moment, but I move from one project to the other pretty quickly. My attention span is not what it used to be.

Q: How old were you when you first started writing?
A: I wrote my first poem at the age of ten and started getting serious about it at 17. A tough year for a kid, and I desperately needed an outlet that was constructive and not destructive.
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Name: Ken Derby
Website: http://www.kenderby.com
Contact: kd@kenderby.com

Questions:

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: I grew up in Denver, Colorado. However, I have lived abroad for the last twenty years. I lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 1984-1989. I currently live in Budapest, Hungary. I’ve lived here since 1990.

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A: My middle grade children’s novel, “The Top 10 Ways to Ruin the First Day of 5th Grade” is a “Children’s Choice 2005″ selection by the International Reading Association and the Children’s Book Council. The hardcover version was published by Holiday House in October of 2004 and Scholastic will publish the trade paperback version and the school fair and book club version in September of 2005.

Q: How old were you when you first started writing?
A: I suppose that I made my first scribble when I was three or four months old.
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Name: Sharleen Cooper Cohen
Website: www.sharleencoopercohen.com
Contact: Penny Whitaker

Questions

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: Los Angeles

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A: Currently, I have been republishing my books through Trafford Books On Demand. Five out of seven titles are now available: Inocent Gestures; Lives of Value; Love, Sex and Money; Repeat Performance (formerly published as Regina’s Song); The Ladies of Beverly Hills. A sixth novel, The Day After Tomorrow, will be published later this year.

Q: How old were you when you first started writing?
A: I started writing in grammar school. I became a full-time writer in my early thirties.
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Name: Suzanne Dunaway
Website: http://www.suzannedunaway.com/

Questions:

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: Texas, but these days I don’t let many people know that. Mostly, I left at 21, went to Berkeley, then Italy, and now France and Italy are where I divide my time.

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A: My latest book is Rome, At Home, The Spirit of la cucina romana in Your Own Kitchen (Broadway Books)

Q: How old were you when you first started writing?
A: I was the editor of a 9th grade gossip and society column in a tiny newspaper in Houston, Texas. Suzy Says was the title.
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