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Authors: Laurie Boris
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Laurie Boris is
a freelance writer, editor, proofreader, and former graphic designer. She is
the award-winning author of four novels:
The
Joke’s on Me
,
Drawing Breath
,
Don’t Tell Anyone,
and
Sliding Past Vertical
. When not playing
with the universe of imaginary people in her head, she enjoys baseball,
cooking, reading, and helping aspiring novelists as a contributing author and
associate editor of Indies Unlimited. She lives in New York’s lovely Hudson
Valley with her husband, Paul Blumstein, a commercial illustrator and web
designer.
Connect with me online:
Website:
http://laurieboris.com
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Don’t Tell Anyone
(
Available
from Amazon at
http://amzn.to/15URqF0
)
A family accidentally
learns that their matriarch, Estelle, not only has breast cancer but also
intended to take it to her grave. Now that the secret is out, Estelle decides to
ask Liza, the daughter-in-law she once called a godless hippie raised by
wolves, to kill her. A horrified Liza refuses but keeps the request from her
husband and his brother. As the three adult children urge Estelle to consider
treatment, their complicated weave of family secrets and lies begins to
unravel. Can they hold their own lives together long enough to help Estelle
with hers?
Drawing Breath
(Available
from Amazon at
http://amzn.to/1b5uRm4
)
Art teacher Daniel
Benedetto has cystic fibrosis. At thirty-four, he's already outlived his
doctor's “expiration date,” but that doesn't stop him from giving all he can to
his students and his work. When he takes on Caitlin, his landlady's daughter,
as a private student, the budding teen painter watches in torment as other
people, especially women, treat Daniel like a freak because of his condition.
To Caitlin, Daniel is not a disease, not someone to pity or take care of but
someone to care for, a friend, and her first real crush. Convinced one of those
women is about to hurt him, Caitlin makes one very bad decision. (
Drawing Breath
placed as a finalist in
the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.)
The Joke’s on Me
(Available
from Amazon at
http://amzn.to/128314q
)
When a mudslide
plummets her hopes, her home, and her entire collection of impractical footwear
into the Pacific, former actress and stand-up comic Frankie Goldberg takes the
only possession she has left – a cherry red Corvette convertible – and
drives east to her family’s bed and breakfast in Woodstock, New York. This
begins a journey into the family she left behind, the family she joked about in
her act. But the joke’s on Frankie. While she was doing impressions of her
slightly menopausal Jewish mother and her sister the serial divorcee, her
family was slowly leaving her. And maybe that joke is just too new to be funny.
Travel along with fearless Frankie as she puzzles through the eternal dilemma
of coming back home to find that nothing is where you left it. (
The Joke’s on Me
placed as a finalist in
the 2012 Beach Books Festival.)
Laurie’s Other Books
First Chapters (Contributing Author)
Indies Unlimited: Author’s Snarkopaedia Volume 1
(Contributing Author)
Indies
Unlimited: Tutorials and Tools for Prospering in a Digital World (Contributing
Author)
Indies
Unlimited: 2012 Flash Fiction Anthology (Contributing Author)
Although I love
to write, crafting novels is not always fun or easy. Many writers sit alone for
hours, pounding out words, giving up weekends and leisure time, just because
we’re so passionate about our work.
Because of
these lovely people, I feel less alone in this weird venture. Thank you, first,
to the fine men and women of the former-but-not-forgotten Starseed Writers
Collective: Bryan Cook, Beth Kon, Kristine Logan, Margaret Pell, and Connie
Gaind. Thank you to my fearless first reader, Tom De Poto, who will always have
the key to the executive washroom. I am grateful for the counsel of Jay Prabhu,
Beth Rose, Donna Dillon, Jen Daniele, Al Kunz, Rich Meyer, Kai Wilson, KS
Brooks, Cathy Speight, LB Clark, Erin McGowan, Melissa Bowersock, David
Antrobus, Crystal Martin, and Rasana Atreya. For their support, generosity, and
laughter, I’d like to thank my huge Facebook family, my beloved DBs, and my
fellow Indies Unlimited minions. May your gruel bowls always be full. Thank you
to my blended, extended family for always being on my team, in spirit if not
always in person. And last but never least, I want to thank my husband, who
even after twenty years of wedded bliss has still not run away screaming. For
this, he should get some kind of medal.